No fan of Kirstie’s half-baked ideas

Yes, correct. I am obsessed with celebrities publishing cook books. Particularly stars such as Kirstie Allsopp, who have no professional culinary expertise, but want to take us on a food journey through their life. No thanks!

We already know how to make a Bolognese sauce and a batch of scones, thanks all the same — but there really is no escape.

Here we learn that Kirstie grows her own cucumbers in Devon, that salmon is one of her favourite fish, and also that the hazelnut is her favourite nut. Marvellous.

Alongside recipes for scrambled eggs and fruit salad, she includes instructions for chocolate brownies and other baked goods that she has never tasted because she is on a semi-permanent diet.

she claims her pizza dough is her ‘own version of a Jamie Oliver recipe’, but, in fact, it is exactly the same. And she has a novel solution for dealing with family meal-times.

Her blended family — two stepsons and two sons — are all fussy eaters but Kirstie solves this problem by cooking them all separate meals.

suffering monkfish goujons! Where does she find the time? Apparently it is partly thanks to ‘our amazing nanny called Heather’ who cooks for the boys when the Location, Location, Location star is away filming. Kirstie makes it look so easy!