We had a jar of mincemeat in the cupboard from last Christmas, and some filo pastry left over from home-made sausage rolls. I decided to make some mince pies.

The crumble topping was made using equal weights of oats, wholemeal flour, butter and sugar.

This year at the German Market, I decided to try a few new things, so instead of just choosing at random, I picked something new or different.

There were a couple of places selling potato pancakes. The first one I went to was serving 'plain' pancakes with either icing sugar or apple sauce.

A few days later I went to a different stall and had savoury potato pancakes with smoked salmon and creme fraiche.

Roast pork bap

Schnitzel and chips