Private chef for hire in Yorkshire, Lancashire and the Lakes The Cook in the North ‣ Chef's Diary
100% 5 star reviews
A lovely thank you card “for the delicious food”.
Sep 2023
Lovely review and off-the-scale rating
Purple carrots with golden centres
Purple potatoes that make equally purple mash
Purple French beans with striking green centres
Buried, watered and left
Family time harvesting potatoes in the sunshine
Individual lemon cheesecakes being prepared
One of the things I like about living and working in the Pennines
Got this lovely review and 5 star rating
Aug 2023
Cooking in a light, airy and spacious holiday home kitchen
The end of a busy evening
Kale and chestnuts about to be roasted with apple and lemon
Caprese salad
Race day garden party food in Cartmel
Dusk at Ivy Cottage in Casterton near Kirkby Lonsdale
Freshly cut chives, harvested at dusk ready to cook with at dawn
Lizzie very kindly left a review about the tapas feast I cooked
Freshly delivered rainbow carrots being packed for their travels
Ercolini pears gently poached with lemon and vanilla
Cooking at High Hall in Appletreewick, Yorkshire Dales
This is me
Freshly delivered box of cauliflowers
Fennel slow roasted with lemon, thyme, shallots, olives and wine
Next stop Preston
One of my favourite places in the Yorkshire Dales
Some of the several hundred plates
Balmoral Road in Morecambe
Some of the ingredients for a tapas feast
Prepping the kitchen at Crayke Manor in North Yorkshire
Looking forward to cooking at Crayke Manor in North Yorkshire
Our haul from the kitchen garden today
#thecookinthegarden greenhouse update
School summer holiday baking!
Early stages of meal prep in a private home
Cooking in Barnoldswick – my home town
Moniek and Jakub booked me to cater for their wedding
My August menu of summer ideas is live
Spanish serrano ham – nitrite-free
Cooking at an airbnb near Lowgill, Kendal
Jul 2023
View from the kitchen sink
Griddling aubergine slices for a vegan melanzane parmigiana
Collecting fresh organic veg in North Yorkshire
Pots of antipasti for the table
Cooking at the Old Mill in Oakworth
Slow roasted lamb shoulder with all the trimmings
Grilled aubergine, feta and mint salad
Cooking in Windermere in the Lake District today
Making low FODMAP lamb stock for a meal in Windermere
Organic cherries heading into a dessert
Organic gazpacho starters
Unloading at Howesyke
Rainbow carrots being prepared for roasting
Salmon en croûte – fresh from the oven
Local Yorkshire-grown organic French beans
View from the kitchen sink: scrubbing new potatoes in Bishopsdale
Layers of thinly sliced Valor potatoes, slowly baked
On a tour at Growing with Grace in North Yorkshire
We’re a street of gardeners
Preparing strawberries for a dessert
