Something a little different from me this week! Yes, it's chocolate bark! This is a very simple dessert to make, but you do need to plan ahead as the bark needs to harden overnight. There are not really any quantities because you can make as much or as little as you like. I melted four 100g bars of dark chocolate - the lower the sugar content the healthier the bark. I used 70% chocolate, but if you love the bitterness of pure cocoa, then feel free to go for a higher percentag

If I told you that you could make a filling nutritious family meal using just one oven dish, a knife and a chopping board, I am sure you’d be begging me for the details. The trick is to add the ingredients to the oven tray in an order that caters to their individual cooking times. In other words, the ingredients that take the longest to cook go in first, and each remaining ingredient gets sequentially until the last one goes in 5 minutes before the meal is served. This method

I do love potatoes, but sometimes it’s fun to ring the changes and serve something a little different as a side dish. So, enter carrot and parsnip chips! Prepared in the same way as roast potatoes but just using different root vegetables. A grind or two of salt and a dash of olive oil, and into the oven they went for about one hour, turning approximately every 20 minutes. You could also try beetroot, kohlrabi or sweet potato. All root vegetables are healthy (including potatoe

This week, I made some colourful kebabs. Actually that's not quite true...... these are so easy – my 13-year old daughter made them on her own. Protein was provided by firm tofu. Tofu is made from soya milk. The liquid (whey) is discarded leaving the curds which are pressed together. Tofu originated in China. According to legend, it was discovered when a Chinese cook accidentally curdled soya milk. Tofu is a great source of protein, iron and calcium. When you open a packet of