• Raspberry trifle

    A raspberry amaretti trifle is my favourite easy pudding to make. It can be assembled in a matter of minutes and everybody always loves it. The taste belies the fact that all the ingredients are in packets and cartons and people always ask for the recipe. In the past, I have made it in various

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  • Avocado salad

    This avocado and orange salad is really quick to prepare and makes a good lunch time dish. This amount serves two but it could always be scaled up. If you have any fresh herbs, use them as a garnish. I picked a few mint leaves from a pot in the garden.

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  • Beany soup

    This Mediterranean bean soup is such an easy soup as it’s so flexible and can be adjusted to what you have in the cupboard or what you like eating.  Sometimes I don’t add the beans and stir in some fresh spinach leaves at the end which wilt in for a bit more green goodness. It can

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  • Fruit salads

    It’s hardly a recipe but a fruit salad is the easiest pudding as there isn’t any cooking. It is a fact universally acknowledged in our household, that if I say, there’s the fruit bowl for pudding, no one is that interested. But if the fruit is cut up and arranged prettily on a platter, then

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