Every month I try to buy the Waitrose kitchen magazine, it has some lovely recipes and interesting food articles. Today I made Ribollita which is a bread soup from the Feb edition of Waitrose magazine, Lucy bond head gardener of Petersham Nurseries shares her recipe.

Rhubarb Compote with orange bay leaves and a vanilla pod was made for a desert with natural yogurt.

Now let it not be said that my presents are not original. We don't make a big deal out of valentines day but a small token is good. The kitchen is usually out of bounds for me, it is usually safer if my husband does the cooking, so I bought my husband something relevant and useful.

Just call me romantic!

To redeem myself I thought I would buy some Root Beer which is something my husband loves, I couldn't find it in Waitrose and when I asked its whereabouts the nice lady said "Alcoholic or not?" I never new there was an alcoholic version so to be different I bought some, the verdict was that it was delicious.