It’s been a crap day (or a great one), it’s late or you’re not in the mood.

Everyone thinks their recipe is the best.

But they’re wrong. This is.

Can I have some more please?

Gruel? Really? That’s what this translates as? Blimey, I’ll have some of that!

“We don’t have this in Mexico, it’s an American thing. But if we did it would be like this . . ."

This is a briliant recipe based on a recipe by Lourdes Nicholls who says something along the lines of “We don’t have this in Mexico, it’s an American thing. But if we did it would be like this . . .