I have been working as a food writer for nearly two decades and published my first cookery book back in 2013. I recently worked out that I have now written, developed and published well over 1,500 original recipes. (Which means I have also spent a vast number of hours washing up!) Many are in my 14 cookbooks, but others have appeared in the Telegraph, Times, House & Garden, Guardian, Healthy magazine and Mail on Sunday. I’m the co-author of a series of books for the LEON restaurant groups, which includes Happy Soups and Happy One-Pot Cooking, as well as Big Salads and Big Flavours, and I wrote the Ginger Pig Christmas Cookbook and Ginger Pig One Pot alongside the Ginger Pig butchery’s kitchen teams.

I run a photography studio, Kemble House, which comes in very handy for cookery book shoots (and has a much bigger kitchen than I do at home). My husband is the food and drink photographer Steven Joyce, and he often shoots the images to go alongside my recipes. The images below are a fraction of the number we have collaborated on over the years.