I have a no nonsense, practical approach to meal preparation using ingredients that are easy to find and clearly explained tried-and-tested methods. The results are tasty, interesting dishes to share with family and friends.

Cooking was a favourite pastime of mine as a child, and I learnt from my mother in our Channel Island family home. I left the island to study English Literature and Art history at The University of Nottingham followed by a career in banking before coming back to my real interest – food.

As well as cooking at home I have had a varied career in food. This has ranged from writing restaurant reviews to giving cooking demonstrations as well as developing recipes and cooking for independent food businesses. A highlight was running my own savoury snack business, ‘Sundowner’ – where I took the business from a kernel of an idea to supplying delis and farm shops all around the UK. I enjoy working in a professional kitchen as I do now cooking fresh, tasty, healthy food for students at a school in Sydney.

Winning a food writing competition in Good Housekeeping magazine was quite a turning point as the prize was a 6 month professional training course at Leith’s School of Food and Wine. I also have City and Guilds Cooks Professional qualifications and a Food Styling certificate from The Culinary Institute of America, New York .

My writing skills were honed during courses in Food writing at both City University and London School of Journalism.

My strengths in recipe development, writing and testing have resulted in a project that I am very excited about – the publication of my first cookbook – ‘Share’ Food for Family Life.

Having lived in the UK and USA, I currently live in Sydney, Australia but return regularly to the UK.