Having set up your chilidren’s cookery school La Petite Ecole at Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, you are clearly an exponent of children in the kitchen. What is your earliest memory of cooking?We lived the most cliché of French life where the table

than most, again, mentioning no names…).By midday, our cooking session was over and we departed with a very sugar-laden but lovely booty, as we wandered across Kensington Gardens to the Princess Diana Peter Pan playground for Joe to run off some

Sunday Roast TerrineServes a family of 4Ingredients4 Linda McCartney Veggie Burgers (or similar soya mince burgers), cooked as per instructions on pack and broken into pieces with a fork1 medium onion, chopped finely12 button mushrooms chopped

What would be your perfect family dinner? A selection of crudités with olives and dips followed by pan-fried seabass and leaf spinach, and then a lovely vanilla rice pudding to finish.What are the best recipes for weaning a baby? Freshly cooked

roast dinner, you structure your day around that. I love cooking for the family at home. There’s two types of cookery in our house: there’s my wife Jane’s cookery and there’s my cookery. My cookery is the same at home, as it is at work. So if I’m making

wife, the boys and I then I tend to cook with no added salt or sugar. A sure-fire winner is grilled sole (with no added salt), nut brown butter, spinach and mashed potato. My wife loves fish with mashed potato and so do the boys. For dessert

to send me off with a packed lunch on the train. There was always fresh fruit. Do you have any cooking heroes? Pellegrino Artusi, the author of a famous Italian cookbook called La scienza In Cucina E L'arte Di Mangiare Bene (The Science of Cooking

cheese. But made with love. What foods did you like and dislike as a child? My parents were into home cooking and health food and my memory is of being subjected to brown rice and lentil concoctions, which as a child I really didn't like (although love

100g leeks, washed and sliced into 2mm10g water5 g unsalted butter1 pinch of white fine ground pepper1 pinch of salt225g Desiree potatoes, cooked in their skins, and grated40g Gruyere cheese, gratedFor the eggwash20g whole milk1 free range size 3

. Sieve the icing sugar over the meringue and fold in by hand only. Using a 1cm nozzle, pipe 8x7cm balls of meringue onto a piece of silicone paper. Hollow the middle using a wet teaspoon. Sprinkle icing sugar on top and cook for two hours and 45 min in a