Surrounded by Ocean and with a unique climate and people! Cornwall is home to some of the best and most diverse range of produce in the UK.

A Pure Cornish Accident

Fish and Chips with Clotted Cream

This sounds a bit odd but it occurred when a friend and I were eating lunch on the Terrace at the Headland Hotel in Newquay. She was eating a Cream Tea and I was treating myself to beer batter cod and a stack of thick cut chips that looked more like the beginnings of a game of Jenga.

I have never been keen on tomato sauce or mayonnaise on my chips as they inevitably get near the fish and sully it.

Therefore the happy accident of my friends Clotted Cream pot overflowing caught my eye and I took a huge dollop and added it to my dish.

It was delicious. I believe it works because Clotted Cream is one of those odd foods that is neither sweet nor savoury and it has such a pure flavour when it is good quality that it enhances what ever it is added to rather than obliterating or overwhelming it.

It may lead to a heart attack if over indulged in; but try it at least once.


Ultimate Surf and Turf

Organic Forage Fed Rib Eye Steak with Creamy Prawn and Wild Marsh Samphire

This has to be one of my favourite dishes and it celebrates the field, coast and ocean of Cornwall all in one happy plate.

It's so simple, again when you get great quality produce. Cook the steak as you like it whilst lightly frying your prawns in just a hint of garlic butter then stir in a little double cream and in the last minute add a large pile of freshly picked Marsh Samphire which will lift the rich sauce and flavour it too. Then pour on top of your steak.

For me this is the definitive early summer dish when it's almost barbecue weather and the first shoots of Marsh Samphire have pushed through to maturity in June.

Oysters

A large pile of natives and rocks, a shucking knife, a lemon and a bottle of bubbles - nothing else needed!

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