This is my version of a tart I first tasted when I was a rather reluctant au pair in Besancon many years ago.

Serves 4.

The Restaurant Show 2006 is on this month, from Monday 18 to Wednesday 20, at the Olympia in London. It is the only show dedicated to the restaurant trade.

Recipe for Apple Brown Betty.

Makes 9 to 10. I prised this recipe from my brother Rory.

Makes 8.My sister Blanaid makes the yummiest muffins — seemingly in minutes.

The fifth Eurotoques food forum and fair will take place at Brooklodge, Macreddin, Co Wicklow on Sunday, September 3, 2006.

THIS is a terrifically versatile vegetable dish which may be made ahead and which reheats well.

THIS wonderful tomato stew is best made during the summer, when the tomatoes are very ripe, but it can still be very good made with tinned tomatoes in the winter.