Mary cooks dishes from ingredients she has grown. She cooks aubergine caponata, a warming vegetable noodle soup, her luxurious chicken and herb casserole and a delicious sunshine cake, all packed with colourful vegetables.
Mary explores new ways to cook and eat. She tries plant-based alternatives, Nigerian cuisine and a pudding she has never tried before. Then cooks white miso in roasted duck legs, a pan-fried prawn dish, Nordic loaf and passion fruit tart
Mary meets those who get great pleasure out of cooking for a crowd. She then cooks melt-in-the-mouth cheese biscuits, a fragrant lamb rogan curry, a platter of sticky soy and ginger pork and crispy-yet-creamy chocolate profiteroles.
Mary steps out with her daughter Annabel, who shares her love of foraging and cooking in the open, whilst rustling up her best recipes for offering comfort to family and friends including roast fillet of beef and a crusted salmon.
Mary shows us recipes that will build confidence in the kitchen for new cooks including an easy stir-fry hoisin chicken, a salmon and dill burger and a Victoria sponge cake. She also shares the secret of her ginger biscuits.
Mary cooks 4 delicious recipes that prove watching the pennies does not mean having to sacrifice flavour. A crab courgetti spaghetti dish using tinned fish, a sausage spinach filo swirl, a cost-effective steak and a humble pudding.