If, like me, you’ve overindulged a bit over Christmas but are still entertaining friends and family, how about this recipe I found on the internet for something a little lighter but still worthy of gracing your lunch or supper table!!

The recipe is enough to feed 6 people and if, again, like me you don’t eat much meat this is a perfect dish for pescetarians. The dish comes in three separate parts; the cured fresh salmon, a tortilia - “potato pancake”, and a creamy dill sauce.

It seems that us Brits have developed into a “chuck away” society according to recent surveys.

Apparently Britain throws away 4,400,000 tonnes of edible food a year and bread is at the top of the throw away food chain.

I think most of us are aware April 2012 marked the centenary of the fateful night when the RMS Titanic sank. We know the story – this was a huge cruise ship which was professed to be unsinkable. It was, at the time, an extraordinary achievement – a modern, well fitted out ship which was designed to provided accommodation for a diverse range of passengers from the rich and famous, through the middle classes, to the lowly workers and their families who had saved avidly for months from their meagre income in order to travel to pastures new lookng for a better quality of life.