Festival appearances have included Abergavenny Food Festival, River Cottage and BBC Countryfile and this year she is appearing at Yeo Valley’s Valley Fest and Ludlow Food Festival. This is an infinitely adaptable pasta bake to use up whatever you have such as leftover pesto, fresh and frozen peas, surplus cooked meat.

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.I don’t own a house or a car, there are loads of things I haven’t got that other people do – for a long time, my business was everything and I didn’t see much of my family and friends. With no formal training, Elly Pear (real name Elly Curshen) opened Bristol’s Pear Café 13 years ago, which was such a ridiculous success she’s since written three cookbooks, been a magazine food columnist, cooked at festivals across the UK, and judged The Great British Food Awards.

Bright, inventive and meat-free, this cookbook is packed with recipes that show how achievable it is to get delicious food (that just happens to be vegetarian) on the table. Perfect for: Cooks who want to eat well every day of the week, and anyone trying to get more veg and plant-based foods in their diet. A super-practical section on weekday meal solutions, with sub-sections for freezer food, one-pan meals and easy recipes that can be on the table in 20 minutes. But what’s important is that if you’re going to cut stuff out, you owe it to yourself to learn how to create proper vegetarian meals.Elly Yes – there are so many wonderful milks, tofu and delicious vegan foods, but it’s also caused a rise in fake meat products. She has also contributed to a wide range of publications both online and in print, including Waitrose Food Magazine, Olive Magazine, Stella Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine, Delicious, Sainsbury’s Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Root and Bone and The Pool and was the food columnist for Instyle Magazine for over a year. Being connected to the outdoors and noticing the seasons changing is hugely important to me and my mental health.

If you’re currently a meat-eater, my aim is to prove a meal with no meat can still be satisfying, exciting and delicious”. Families choose to spend their money on different things, and ever since we were small, my parents took us to restaurants. The third stop is special treats – like a lime or an avocado, because we’re lucky that we can get them.Jars of sweet red peppers are a good thing to have in the fridge – they’re delicious whizzed into a dip or sliced up in a frittata. I’m always thinking about balancing textures and flavour – and this dish has chewy grains, a crispy egg, juicy vegetables, but it needs something sharp, pickly and crunchy. She has also contributed recipes to both Cook For Syria charity books and produced two e-books, Let’s Eat: Elly Pear’s Home Fridge Deli and Elly Pear’s Fast Days and Feast Days: Tips and recipes to reset your diet for the New Year. Everyone has their own journey in life and it’s taken me a long time – success does take a long time. My parents were self-employed and worked all the time – and I’m always working, but I’m okay with that.