Broccoli Pizza Base

For the Pizza base:

100g broccoli florets chopped finely in a food processor
1 large egg
3 tbsp of buckwheat flour
2 tsp of flaxseed
Salt and pepper to season

Mix the ingredients together until dough forms. Line a baking tray with parchment paper. Oil slightly. Take the dough and shape into a ball. Flatten with your palm on tray. Take a spoon and spread the dough with the back of the spoon until dough becomes thin evenly. Bake for 15 ins at 200°. Turn over and add toppings. Bake for another 15 minutes. Finish last five under the grill.

Smoked Salmon & Spinach Quiche

Looking for something easy to rustle up for dinner after a good day's work? Then try this cheat's recipe for salmon and spinach quiche.

Lamb and Turnip Curry

This is a nice winter curry. The turnips on first sight look deceptively like potatoes but upon closer inspection, you see that they have that familiar veiny turnip look with that familiar bitter turnip-y flavour. Combined with lamb, this is a curry for seasoned palates.

Summer Fruit Cake

This is a cake that always ALWAYS pleases.

If you don't believe me, try it. Go on. But hurry because summer is about to end!

Sweet, Sour and Spicy Prawn Salad

A colourful and refreshing salad to put a spring in your step!

Sublime Mango & White Chocolate Mousse or Creams

Wowzer!

The first is a light frothy surprise served in a Martini glass with a few diced mangoes and passion fruit seeds at the bottom. The second is a creamy coconutty crime parfait! Both topped with a sweet and tangy mango-lime coulis.

Marmalade Drizzle Pudding

Follow your instincts.

The One Chocolate Cake

Found. Mousse-like chocolate cake. Hits the spot. Very tame baking-wise. Lovable and wholly edible. Take home and guard forever!

Carrot and Lentil Soup

Another winter warmer. This soup is bulked out with split red lentils - a much healthier choice. The lemon livens it up and brings you a hint of summer warmth.

Lime Drizzle Loaf Cake

A little twist on the good old lemon drizzle cake. I prefer mine with lime; it has a sharper acidic kick and cuts through the sugar in the cake nicely.

Spiced Apple Cake

This oh-so-moist cake is spiced with the Tonka bean; an oval and rather elegantly shaped black bean (see picture here, plus another recipe laced with the spice). Some say it is a nice substitute for vanilla, but don't be fooled. Many other spicy notes float within this genie of a bean.

Cranberry Chutney Indian Style

Baby it's cold outside...

So stay in and make cranberry chutney to slather on slices of fresh bread. Eat with cheese or cold leftover meat for supper. Be lazy. And moreishly so...

Matcha and Red Fruit Loaf Cake

A moist loaf cake with a hint of matcha, a Japanese green tea powder.

Split Green Pea & Coriander Soup

This is a winter warmer which you can fix up within an hour or so. Split peas are garden peas left in their pods to fully mature and when dried, and the skins removed, they split naturally. They contain a lot of fibre as well as protein so adding legumes to your soup will not only  make a tasty change from the traditional soups which use potatoes to bulk out other vegetables, it will also make it healthier.

Easy Buttery Lime Loaf Cake

Here's an easy and versatile loaf cake. Ready within less than an hour; great with your coffee or a scoop of ice cream, even a drizzle of raspberry coulis for dessert. A simple cake for the fussiest of eaters among us.

Quick & Light Raspberry Cheese Cakes

Ever feel the urge for something dairy-loaded and sweet but with only half the fat?  I did and I didn't want to wait hours for my fix. Depending on the recipe, some cheese cakes can take a long time to set especially if you're required to refrigerate the batter. I decided to bake my cheese cake (no need to wait hours for cake to set in the fridge) in small ramekins which meant that baking time is further reduced. These cheese cakes are ready to be devoured within an hour of prepping and cooking time!

Fig & Almond Muffins

One of the joys of eating with the seasons means looking forward to your favourite fruits. Figs are definitely one of them and right now there are plenty of them at the markets here: sweet, fleshy and crunchy seeds combined, ripe figs are one of nature's most moreish offerings. So when I came across this recipe in the BBC GoodFood magazine, I just had to give it a go.

Zucchini Fritters (Gluten Free)

Chickpea flour, otherwise known as Gram flour across the subcontinent, is what is usually used to bind vegetables together in bhajis or pakoras (South Asian fritters). Whereas plain flour weighs the fritters down and may need a pinch of baking powder to give lightness, the chick pea flour in this recipe makes them very airy and crispy. The batter becomes sticky and no egg is needed, so you can really taste the star ingredients: courgettes, pockets of salty Feta, garlic and fragrant basil.

Healthy Breakfast Muffins (No Sugar)

This one is for those of you and you know who you are on a diet this summer. When put to the challenge of making light muffins, I rose up to meet it and after two attempts, this by-no-means humble muffin surprised me. It packs a healthy punch with a list of superfood ingredients; perfect to start your day with.

Simple Spicy Sliders

On holiday back home I had spent all week eating veg and was very happy to do so knowing that in my part of France I would never be able to find veg like bitter gourd (kerala), or  those baby aubergines with silky skins and not to mention all the lovely alternatives to spinach:  fresh mustard and fenugreek leaves. These are veg with sharp flavours that never let you forget them.

However, once the holiday was over I began craving some meat and naturally this primal urge had to be satiated through a no fuss, hands on experience: cue sliders (burgers or kwaab as my family calls them) with some nostalgic spicy notes to satiate my homesickness for the food of my youth.