Let the children have a go at making these festive recipes, you won't regret it! From a stunning beetroot dip with spiced tortilla crisps to a best-selling white chocolate cake, yes rumour has it that this style of white chocolate cake out-sells any other cake in Swedish bakeries, these recipes are really useful for the party season ahead...

Are cooking lessons the way to beat childhood obesity? Cook School is in I Paper today! If you'd like to get involved please get in touch, we'd love to hear from you...

This recipe's all about getting your kids to get their hands messy - squashing, mixing, mashing & shaping. You can find the full recipe and more ways to get the kids to help out in the kitchen in my latest BBC Good Food Magazine feature (it's just gone live). Involving children in the kitchen is a brilliant way to encourage their interest in food as well as keeping them happy when you're busy.

We all know how tricky it can be packing in the veg each day, and I'm always thinking of ways to help make it easier for us busy parents to get the kids to eat more, like this Cook School recipe for Vegetable Samosas. So when the Veg Power campaign team asked me to help, I was only too pleased to join them...

Having spent most of my career encouraging children to cook and helping parents with accessible recipes to cook for the family, it seemed the right time to launch, with an incredible team, Cook School, a nationwide project teaching children and students to cook. If you'd like to get involved, please get in touch, we'd love to hear from you. This is about a community of people, not just one or two...

Looking for ways to feed the children every night of the week? You might like to try some of my ideas as featured in the fab BBC Good Food magazine.