A soup to save you of a winters day. A true store cupboard forage to feed a family.

The slightly gelatinous slithers of chill make almost anything better – a topper for soup, daubed over slithers of  boiled ham or freckling your scrambled eggs. The liquid, in her own right is a thing of untold beauty giving fire to any salad dressing and setting your heart alight in a 4PM martini/ any AM Bloody Mary.

Little balls of labneh cheese rolled in spices, preserved in olive oil and ready to munch

As the September storm clouds gather and burst, so too the grapes hang swollen and plumptious on the vine, miniature missiles raining down on parked cars, seated diners and passing goats. Huge majestic bunches in every hue from yellow to black form heavy weight canopies to shelter from the sun.

Zhoug is a spicy Middle Eastern salsa, a green and zesty taste-bud tickler with an underground warren of flavour. It’s a combination of fresh coriander, jalapeno chillis, cumin seeds, cardamom, garlic, salt, olive oil and lemon juice briefly blitzed and bottled; ready to be called on daily, and I had a calling….

Remoullade is a juicy, sludgy indulgent slaw of celeriac and thick mustard heavy mayonnaise, the taste of holidays and picnics past.

When a fish is so fresh you cant even smell it as its wetness meets your nose; this is the finest way to cook it whilst preserving its subtlety of flavour and form. Just out the sea on a stormy Spring day, we steamed it on a nest of sweet Spring vegetables and their broth, served with a loose herby mayonnaise and a crusty loaf of bread.

Man cannot live on hummus alone, other dips need time to shine. Fresh peas in their pod or freshly pulled out the freezer, both work like a dream cooked and blended with feta, mint and lemon zest and covered in olive oil - crisp dunker, bruschetta pile up or an honourable crudité accompaniment, this delicious mulch is a born beauty queen and celebration of Spring.

Super simple raw vegan cookie dough ball recipe full to the brim with good fats and proteins. As squishy, doughy and sustaining as a great ball of cookie dough but without any of the sugar, butter or refined flour.