I’m a forty-something mum-of-one, living and cooking in London.

I’ve got a huge collection of cookbooks (so many that the shelf they sit on makes a regular protest by detaching itself from the wall), an oven  that doesn’t have any visible numbers on it (so most of my cooking gets done at approximately gas mark 5 – hence the name of the blog), a  husband who claims to be vegetarian – but eats fish, a fussy toddler – who mostly eats jam sandwiches, a meat and two-veg consuming set  of in-laws and a mother who has a gluten intolerance. But, I’m not moaning, I like a challenge.

This blog is a record of my culinary experiments as I trawl through my cookbooks trying to please my dinner guests.