Its citrus season and these chewy candied citrus sweets are actually full of health benefits, and you get a lovely cordial as a bonus!

These BBQ Oyster Mushroom steak recipe is one for the mushroom lovers. Smoky, succulent oyster mushroom steaks are absolutely delicious and so moreish you can’t stop eating them! The trick (that was pioneered by Derek Sarno) is to use cast iron pans to flatten and evenly sear the mushroom clusters, this also drives out moisture so when you add them to the marinade it sucks up all the flavour into the steaks. I used a grow bag this time, but wild foraged oyster mushroom would be even better...

I have been waiting a few years to have a go at cooking with sunflowers and this weekend gone I had the absolute delight on a hot and gloriously sunny summers day to walk the annual sunflower field at Blue River Orchard and picked an array of sunflowers to have a culinary play with. How glorious and majestic is the sunflower Helianthus annuus, bringing joy and happiness as their heads follow the sun and the bees feast on their nectar. The buds, petals, leaves and seeds are all edible and...