Chef’s Diary

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

Cooking at High Hall in Appletreewick, Yorkshire Dales

Aug 2023

This is me

Aug 2023

Freshly delivered box of cauliflowers

Aug 2023

Fennel slow roasted with lemon, thyme, shallots, olives and wine

Aug 2023

Next stop Preston

Aug 2023

One of my favourite places in the Yorkshire Dales

Aug 2023

Some of the several hundred plates

Aug 2023

Balmoral Road in Morecambe

Aug 2023

Some of the ingredients for a tapas feast

Aug 2023

Prepping the kitchen at Crayke Manor in North Yorkshire

Aug 2023

Looking forward to cooking at Crayke Manor in North Yorkshire

Aug 2023

Old Corn Mill

Aug 2023

Martins Farm, Healaugh

Aug 2023

Kilnsey Park

Aug 2023

The Old Vicarage at Crawshawbooth

Aug 2023

112 Balmoral Road

Aug 2023

Crayke Manor

Aug 2023

Our haul from the kitchen garden today

Aug 2023

#thecookinthegarden greenhouse update

Aug 2023

School summer holiday baking!

Aug 2023

Early stages of meal prep in a private home

Aug 2023

Cooking in Barnoldswick – my home town

Aug 2023

Moniek and Jakub booked me to cater for their wedding

Aug 2023

My August menu of summer ideas is live

Aug 2023

Spanish serrano ham – nitrite-free

Aug 2023

Moorgate Barn

Aug 2023

Moorgate Cottage

Aug 2023

Ewe Time Holiday Barn

Aug 2023

Howesyke

Aug 2023

Oakburn

Jul 2023

Cooking at an airbnb near Lowgill, Kendal

Jul 2023

View from the kitchen sink

Jul 2023

Griddling aubergine slices for a vegan melanzane parmigiana

Jul 2023

Collecting fresh organic veg in North Yorkshire

Jul 2023

Pots of antipasti for the table

Jul 2023

Cooking at the Old Mill in Oakworth

Jul 2023

Slow roasted lamb shoulder with all the trimmings

Jul 2023

Grilled aubergine, feta and mint salad

Jul 2023

Cooking in Windermere in the Lake District today

Jul 2023

Making low FODMAP lamb stock for a meal in Windermere

Jul 2023

Organic cherries heading into a dessert

Jul 2023

Organic gazpacho starters

Jul 2023

Unloading at Howesyke

Jul 2023

Rainbow carrots being prepared for roasting

Jul 2023

Salmon en croûte – fresh from the oven

Jul 2023

Local Yorkshire-grown organic French beans

Jul 2023

View from the kitchen sink

Jul 2023

Layers of thinly sliced Valor potatoes, slowly baked

Jul 2023

On a tour at Growing with Grace in North Yorkshire

Jul 2023