What I hope this website is:

• A welcoming, easy-to-follow starting point for complete cooking beginners
• A useful compendium of  practical, achievable, economical family recipes suitable for novices or seasoned cooks
• A common sense guide to simple healthy eating, with no time for fads, diets or marketing spin
• An interesting folio of food research for those who’d like to find out more
• Motivation for my own continuous learning

What I am:

• A committed home cook with a background in food writing
• A fledgling cooking tutor running classes for individuals and community groups
• Interested in the scientific evidence behind sensationalised food and health headlines (but not a scientist)
• Convinced that anyone can achieve tasty, healthy, appealing food without needing to be any kind of ‘food expert’
• A busy mother of one
• Into organic; wary but not scared of sugar; pro-butter

What I’m not:

• Medically trained, or a healthcare professional of any kind
• A chef
• Paid by anyone to market anything
• Taking hours to photograph or arrange anything – all the pictures are (pretty obviously) taken hastily before eating. Stomach before style!