With recipe and cook books on all sorts of areas, we’ve got you covered in the kitchen, whether you’re looking to bake, roast, slow cook, forage or simply chuck everything in one pot and cross your fingers. Many of the recipes use ingredients sourced from the NT's kitchen gardens and farms – and so make the most of the fresh summer peas or autumnal squashes. The author suggests alternative twists and substitutes so you can suit the ingredients to your family’s tastes and what you have on hand—and suggests ways that the kids can get involved in the cooking.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.It's really important to get them to help you, otherwise the food lands in front of them and they're expected to eat it," Thomson adds.

Every day she makes a ‘proper’ tea – posting on Instagram at around 5 pm – and from this, the ‘ 5 o’clock Apron’ was born. Claire Thomson wants to revitalise cooking for the family – making it less of a chore, with separate meals for children and adults, and more of an enjoyable way to refresh your culinary imagination and make cooking for the family something to look forward to. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the creamed butter mix, add the cherries and stir through. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Author Laura Mason gives tips on transporting and cooking the food in the great outdoors, as well as giving historical context to the recipes and suggesting the best National Trust places to eat outdoors.Claire Thomson wants to revitalise cooking for the family - making it less of a chore, with separate meals for children and adults, and more of an enjoyable way to refresh your culinary imagination and make cooking for the family something to look forward to. Claire Thomson wants to revitalise cooking for the family making it less of a chore, with separate meals for children and adults, and more of an enjoyable way to refresh your culinary imagination and make cooking for the family something to look forward to.