Light meals, salads & soups

Ham salad, with figs and blue cheese, a fantastic combination of flavours that work beautifully together in this salad bowl. A complete meal in one and a great way to use up any leftover roast ham.

Easy Leek and Potato Soup with sauteed leeks and onion cooked in vegetable stock with potatoes, carrots, garlic and chickpeas, making this a delicious and fresh tasting soup.

Easy Tomato Vegetable Soup with a variety of vegetables cooked with tomatoes and green lentils in a vegetable stock. Add a spoon of spicy harissa paste to add depth of flavour and just the right amount of chilli heat.

My easy Asian Cucumber Salad makes the very best of crisp cucumbers. I like to add toasted sesame seeds, chopped chilies and some fresh coriander and mint to the salad. I then dress it with an Asian salad dressing, flavoured with garlic, ginger, soy and sesame oil.

For a change from your regular cabbage based slaws, try my Sprout Slaw with Apple and Radish. This brussel sprout slaw is full of crunch and texture, and rather than serving in a mayonnaise based dressing I opt for a honey mustard dressing.

Love egg salad? Then you have to try my Scandinavian egg salad sandwich on rye bread. This open sandwich uses fresh free range eggs, combined with fresh apple, radish and dill, for a great tasting egg sandwich that’s a joy to eat.