During the month of October, guests at the Sani Resort in Halkidiki can experience the Discover Halkidiki package with visits to the fish, vegetable and meat market in Thessaloniki with one of the chefs from Sani. There are also excursions

Its collection of timber-and-glass self-catering lodges, set among hills near the north Cornish coast, all have a private terrace with a barbecue and outdoor eating area. But if cooking is off the menu, then a private chef can be requested

.- www.helpfulholidays.com Includes some of the most elegant houses in The West Country. - www.boutiqueboltholes.co.uk Hotels and houses you can take over that include extras such as a chef, butler and spa treatments.- www.celticcastles.com A huge selection of castles all over the UK

Want a break from the hurly-burly of modern life and lots of space for your child? Dolly Cottage, in rugged, rural Eire’s Donegal, is a 200-year-old thatched cottage sleeping up to four, set in seven acres of gardens leading to the River Stragar

 cuisine from your own chef at the elegant poolside gazebo, then relax on the sundeck overlooking the Caribbean sea. Prices with Private Label Worldwide start from £10,650 for a family of four staying seven nights. This price includes flights, transfers, use

Ingredients500g (1lb 2oz) of ripe or frozen raspberries to make 250ml (81/2fl oz) of raspberry juice 100g (31/2oz)  caster sugar200ml (7fl oz) Jersey cream100ml (31/2fl oz) yoghurtMethodFirst, juice the raspberries. To do this, first mash them up

Emma Woods, mother of Megan, 12, Ella, nine, Conor, six, and Charlie, four, shares her foodie favouritesWhat’s your earliest food memory? My Dad making homemade pizza. It was pretty basic – just a homemade dough base and tinned tomatoes and grated

and Wii. The babysitting service, Petit Verbier, provides a central crèche and in-chalet nannying. One week at Chalet Kernow costs from £1,875 per person. For bookings and details, tel: 00 41 (0)79 428 0172 or visit www.ckverbier.com. For details

Shaw (Frances Lincoln, £11.99).Who won Picture Book of the Year 2012?There's an interesting miscellany of animal tenants in the apartment block where Auntie Iris (a chinchilla) lives with her family. For a start, there's the grumpy cohort of bears

in the hectic kitchens of MasterChef, where Wahaca’s co-founder and head chef, Thomasina Miers, first earned her stripes when she won the final back in 2005). With prompt timings in mind, our waiter informed us that dishes would arrive as soon as they were ready