Spicy whole roast chicken

Make a paste from:

Paprika, crushed ginger, crushed garlic, chilli powder, garam masala, turmeric, honey, grapeseed oil, rapeseed oil, cloves.

Chop peppers and onion into strips and put them in the baking tray with some new potatoes. Serve with some cous cous.

Marsala Peaches

Marinate fruit in marsala wine, butter, brown sugar, and vanilla.

Roast on a baking tray for 25 minutes.

Broad bean and chorizo pasta

Tilapia and asparagus

Green and Blacks' Maya Gold

A kick of orange zest accompanied by a very pleasant hum of cinnamon.

Roast chicken on puy lentils with baba ganoush and caper sauce

Goats cheese, sun-dried tomato and harissa paste canapé

Chocolate cake with goat butter cream

Seared tuna loin with radish and orange salad

Tuna seared with sesame seeds.

Chicken terrine and butter bean salsa

Pan fried smoked haddock and potato ragoût

Sunken apricot cake

For the cake mix: sugar, salt, mixed spice, ground almond, rice flour, butternut squash, carrot, baking powder, three eggs, vanilla essence, apricot halves.

To finish: dust with icing sugar.

Twinnings white tea

Possibly over-stewed the first cup, but refreshing stuff nonetheless.

Roast lamb leg and roast new potatoes

The lamb
Slash leg and stuff with rosemary and garlic. Roast on a trivet of sliced onions.

The gravy
Remove joint, cover, and put to one side to rest. With the roast tin on the hob, cook out some white wine, add hot stock. Add chopped leeks and cook until tender.

The potatoes
Parboil new potatoes with skins on, rub with salt, garlic, and oil, and put in the bottom of the oven with the lamb for the last fifty minutes of cooking.

Pan-fried salmon on sun-dried tomato salad

Salt salmon skin, pan-fry skin down, baste until nearly done then turn over to finish. Put to one side.

Finely chop sun-dried tomatos and piquanté peppers, add to pan with a squeeze of lemon. Toss quickly with lambs' lettuce and serve.

Roast chicken and puy lentils

With a slow-roasted tomato on the side.

Special cheese on toast with piquanté peppers

I really like chilli peppers for breakfast: a good kick to start the day. With some nice yellow, Golden Beauty tomatoes and freshly ground pepper.

Lucky

Crisp lager, with a great bottle. Seems a shame to throw it away.

Pomelo

Curious fruit, twice the size of a lemon, and not as bitter as a grapefruit.

Pan-fried bass and steamed leeks

Fry the bass fillet with a rub of turmeric and salt. De-glaze pan with lemon juice and dot around the fish. (Not on the crispy skin.)

Chopping chocolate

I'm not sure what's quite so pleasant about chopping up chocolate, but there you go.

Chocolate cupcakes

Baked in nice silicone cases.

Henney's dry cider

I don't drink cider very often, but I could drink a lot of this.

Moruno tomatoes

Firm, juicy, and shaped like a tear.

Strawberry cupcakes

Squid stuffed with ricotta and chorizo

For the stuffing: ricotta, chorizo, shallots, garlic, white wine, red chilli, rapeseed oil, ground pepper, chopped parsley.

For the sauce: chopped parsley, sherry vinegar, olive oil, lemon, salt, pepper.

Salmon and roast new potatoes

For the potatoes: one red chilli, one green chilli, chilli powder, salt, pepper, rosemary, garlic.

For the salmon: salt and pepper.

Crispy garlic and chilli bits fried in oil, mix with the beans.

Tomato and thyme tart

Cherry tomatoes, smoked cheese, mustard, salt, pepper, shortcrust pastry, thyme, balsamic vinegar.

Roast chicken and oyster mushroom gravy

Roast the chicken on a layer of halved white onions. When cooked, run knife through the roasted onions and transfer to pan. Add Dijon mustard, pepper, cider vinegar, chicken stock, and a glass of Reisling. Cook for a few minutes, then add the halved oyster mushrooms.

Loch trout

The finest piece of trout I've seen in a long time.

Looking forward to eating it.

Bass, tenderheart cabbage, and waxy potatoes

Taking it back to basics today.

Pan-fried bass fillet, salt, pepper. Butter on the cabbage and potatoes.

Spiced salmon with sautéed potatoes

For the salmon:
Paprika
Turmeric
Coriander powder
Garam masala
Garlic
Salt
Pepper
Creme fraiche