Three floors up with the sounds of birdsong streaming into the kitchen in Bowness-on-Windermere.

This was the ‘view from the kitchen’ in a cottage hired by an American family from Arizona. Being on a bit of a tour around Britain – Edinburgh before the Lakes, London after – they really appreciated the home cooking, freshly cooked vegetables and organic provenance of my ingredients. But most of all the safe gluten-free catering for coeliac family members.

The meal for 11 included:

Slow roasted Yorkshire pork belly with maple syrup with french beans
Prawns with garlic, spring onion, chilli, seaweed and sea salt
Baked wild salmon with marsh samphire
Pan-fried chicken breast with grapes, tarragon and vermouth
Potato gratin dauphinois
Honey glazed carrots
Tenderstem broccoli
Freshly baked gluten-free sticky toffee pudding with cream