Regular visitors to this blog will know that I’m not a huge fan of fruit cake but feel there’s something missing at Christmas if I don’t have one.  I also like a challenge and Waitrose, offered me the ingredients to take part in their ‘Stir-Up Sunday campaign’.…

I love a pie.  My favourite would be plump, generously meat-filled with THE crispest pastry, served with nursery-soft potato, lashings of gravy and some green vegetables.  Just as well that Pieminister are on the market because their pies are better than my Mum’s (and that’s saying…