Polenta with a paprika sausage casserole

Hutong starters, wagyu beef mille feuille, prawn, ginger and spring onion bao buns and wontons.

Gorgeous char siu pork with fluffy bao buns taken from Jeremy Pang’s Hong Kong Diner

Steak chips and mushroom sauce, always special and gorgeous

Scallop pasta and the planning of a 21st birthday cake for lovely Lucy

Baked sweet potato, delicious sweet and takes 5 mins in the kitchen - perfect midweek meal

Gorgeous ham and chive quiche

Gorgeous fresh stone baked takeaway pizza from the pizza van in Sevenoaks

Italian chicken and polenta, warming light and gorgeous

Gorgeous home made fish and chips or, if you are vegan, banana blossom ‘fish’ and chips

Leftover macaroni cheese was made in to mac n cheese bites and we made some ginger and spring onion wings

Leftover beef? Make chilli. Leftover chilli? Make empanadas

A deeply flavourful bowl of pasta, puttanesca.

A gorgeous -albeit super spicy - chilli made with leftover beef, easily rescued.

Macaroni cheese and ribs and how to rescue a split cheese sauce