This much I know: Trish Deseine, chef and author

My message has always been that it’s OK to be a home cook, says Trish Deseine.

I know how to make cooking fun. I’m not a trained chef. I fervently believe that after a very small amount of knowledge, a lot of cheffy rules are actually counter productive to cooking at home. As long as the flavour is there, that’s the main thing. You don’t have to do things like a chef, that’s all a myth.

My first memory of cooking is helping to make a cheese cake with lemon jelly and Philadelphia cream cheese, which was the height of fashion back in the 1970s when yogurt and ready meals were still novelties.