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This painting is ‘Head’ by Karl Hagan. It the most often enquired about work and indeed threatened to be stolen piece from the collection. Many ladies have tried to put it in their handbags. I sometimes look at it waving incense sticks in

Potato dumplings with Welsh goats cheese and soft herbs.

This work is by @karendayehutchinson who is the most collected artist in the cafe collection. 28 of her paintings and prints watch over the cafe every day.

Karen received the prestigious Central Saint Martins Postgraduate MFA ‘Alumni Award&rs

We’ve been up ladders picking plums in the cafe garden today. I’m doing a nice clafoutis with them.

If you’ve ever been to @gloriosa_glasgow you will no doubt already know, they do the best one in the world but this one is also in

Table decoration this evening is a single agapanthus stem.

The work out of focus is by Stephen Lawlor - the second most collected artist in the collection. Nine of his works surround the dining table.

Etching by Stephen Lawlor ARE, ‘Puritan

This is a 15 minute number today and so simple it doesn’t even have a cooked sauce. Chopped heirloom tomatoes (the yellow ones are great), nice Greek olive oil and sea salt. Garden herbs are good, I have a dolly mixture of chives and fennel aga

Great staff day off and trip to @bootleggersbelfast for a burger. This is a Belfast institution where you can hide in a booth and eat with all the grace and elegance of a Viking. Getting mayonnaise on your face is all part of the day out and you have

Informal family lunch. Spaghetti with prawns, lemon verbena and garlic