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An easy one dish type of cooking from the Queen of Chicken - Diana Henry!

The recent cyclone and flooding has made a couple of things a bit clearer to me, the first is how lucky we have been to live in a country for so long that is able to produce so much of its own food. And secondly, just how much we have undervalued many of our food producers.

I love carrots - most people don’t - but they saved me when I did a body building competition as they replaced most of the carbs I wasn’t allowed. They are versatile, cheap and you can do so much with them. Give this recipe from Nigel Slater a whirl and you never know, you might find yourself eating a few more of these vibrant sweet and most delicious of vegetables.

Lesson learned from summer gardening - do not attempt to remove hedge with a shovel in the middle of the hottest day of the year with no protection from the sun. It took me days to recover. There will be no such attempts at martyrdom this coming Anniversary Weekend as the recent run of golden weather comes to an end and my garden gets some much needed rain.

This month's recipe from Kylie Kwong hits just the spot for an easy evening weekday meal.