Crushed potatoes

There is a "recipe", if you can call it that, here but it's really simple. Boil some potatoes, crush them with their skins on and stir in garlic, olive oil, salt pepper and fresh herbs. This was sage

Spring cabbage

This is really close to the slow-cooked cabbage recipe here but the key is to cook everything except the cabbage for as long as it needs and then you can take it off the heat and forget about it.

When everything else is ready and you’re nearly plating up heat everything else back up and when its hot mix in the cabbage. Cook it for a few minutes – anywhere up to 10 but not longer than that.

Creamed leeks

Nothing could be simpler; slice and wash some leeks, sweat onion and garlic in butter for a few minutes and then add the leeks, salt and pepper. Carry on cooking fairly gently until they are soft and sweet.

Add a few spoonfuls of cream, stir it in and heat it through

Swede a la boulangerie

Not entirely successful but could work when I've thought about it

Thinly sliced swede layered in a gratin dish with onion and garlic, topped up with stock and flecked with a little butter to get brown bits

Tasted fine but wasn't what I wanted. try it with potatoes though

Red wine and mustard jus

Just the Jus Jus in the recipe here but with a teaspoon of French Mustard, which is slightly sweet and works against the red wine that can make it all a little bitter