Squash this dish of colour and flavour into your day

Between coping with picky eaters and as an antidote to ‘Motherexia’, Valerie O’Connor serves up a delicious portion of Awesome Pie.

A friend and mum of three younglings spoke to me last week of a thing she calls Motherexia.

Now I had read of this in the past in relation to the awful thing that is post-natal depression, something I went through myself without even knowing that I was in it, such are the joys of being a young mother in a foreign country with little support — you just believe you’re losing your mind.