Chef’s Diary

Today I’m experimenting with kalettes

Jan 2024

Cream cheese stuffed portobello field mushrooms

Jan 2024

21 starters of pork belly in maple syrup

Dec 2023

For everyone who booked a meal in 2022

Nov 2023

A maple syrup-drizzled bite of slow roasted Yorkshire pork belly

Nov 2023

Lime and coriander chicken starter

Nov 2023

A review from a meal I cooked near Kendal

Nov 2023

Potato dauphinoise

Nov 2023

Individual chocolate fondant cake puddings

Nov 2023

Fennel roasted with black pepper, lemon, thyme and olives

Nov 2023

There was debate around the table last night

Nov 2023

I use organic wines and ciders

Nov 2023

Dairy-free Yorkshire puddings about to go into the oven

Nov 2023

Freshly baked organic figgy pudding

Nov 2023

A review from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

Oct 2023

Deviled eggs are always really popular

Oct 2023

Generous slices of homemade chocolate and biscuit tart

Oct 2023

The olives I serve

Oct 2023

I was asked to judge the Cox Chutney Challenge

Oct 2023

Busy day ahead prepping for a family gathering near Kendal

Oct 2023

Lemon cheesecakes

Oct 2023

Warm caramel cinnamon apple pastry tarts

Oct 2023

A review from Knaresborough

Oct 2023

Food intolerance, allergy or simply keen to avoid certain ingredients

Oct 2023

Local lamb shoulder for 13 with honey roasted Yorkshire carrots

Oct 2023

Purple sweet potato fries in the making

Oct 2023

An individual portion of slow roasted pork belly in maple syrup

Oct 2023

Earlier this year I planted a second pear tree in our garden

Oct 2023

Roasted racks of lamb for a 10th wedding anniversary dinner

Oct 2023

Spanish serrano ham – nitrite and nitrate free

Oct 2023

A lovely review from a meal I cooked in Swaledale

Oct 2023

A starter of poached cod, pesto and marsh samphire

Oct 2023

Autumn apple, blackberry, brown sugar and cinnamon

Sep 2023

Butternut squash with rosemary, sage, bay, chilli and fennel

Sep 2023

Blackberries and apples are always really popular in Autumn

Sep 2023

Fabulous British organic sweetcorn cobs

Sep 2023

They say the wand chooses the wizard…

Sep 2023

A lovely thank you card “for the delicious food”

Sep 2023

Lovely review and off-the-scale rating

Sep 2023

Purple carrots with golden centres

Sep 2023

Purple potatoes that make equally purple mash

Sep 2023

Purple French beans with striking green centres

Sep 2023

Buried, watered and left

Sep 2023

Family time harvesting potatoes in the sunshine

Sep 2023

Individual lemon cheesecakes being prepared

Sep 2023

One of the things I like about living and working in the Pennines

Sep 2023

Got this lovely review and 5 star rating

Aug 2023

Cooking in a light, airy and spacious holiday home kitchen

Aug 2023

The end of a busy evening

Aug 2023

Kale and chestnuts about to be roasted with apple and lemon

Aug 2023

Brook House

Aug 2023

Caprese salad

Aug 2023

Race day garden party food in Cartmel

Aug 2023

Ivy Cottage

Aug 2023

Dusk at Ivy Cottage in Casterton near Kirkby Lonsdale

Aug 2023

Freshly cut chives, harvested at dusk ready to cook with at dawn

Aug 2023

Lizzie very kindly left a review about the tapas feast I cooked

Aug 2023

Freshly delivered rainbow carrots being packed for their travels

Aug 2023

Ercolini pears gently poached with lemon and vanilla

Aug 2023

High Hall

Aug 2023