Chef Brian McDermott

You've just turned basic leftover potatoes that you're going to throw out tomorrow into something hugely substantial and very rewarding.

Yeah, but your memory is, Clare, like of that salad and your mum and being home and being safe.

And, you know, there's a joy that comes to you immediately.

And no matter what your mum's going to serve, you're going to love it because it's rekindling something in you.

But I bet you there was salad cream back then, aren't I?

No.

And it's at what point do you repeat that for your family, you know?

are you hanging on to the mommy's salad?

And how do you own that, Clare?

That's the difficulty here.

And we're all in that phase of life where we go, and my mum, I was up with her yesterday as well, funny enough, and she's offering the hot tea.

And I'm thinking, God, no matter what the weather's like, you're going to get a hot cup of tea.

But likewise for me now coming back and my two girls, they're at 24 and 21.

So they're at the age where, for example, the notions in January back there where they were using chai seeds on porridge and they were going to be super healthy.

And

like everybody, probably dropped off mid-January and I was looking this morning and there is the big jar of chai seeds and I'm thinking, they're perfect.

Pull them out and it's part of today.

Look what's in your store cupboard.

What have you not used or what did you buy as part of a notion months ago?

Get it back out and that does add a layer of texture to the likes of what we're talking about.