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Eating a nutritious, balanced diet is vital to health and wellbeing, and learning how to make simple meals is a life skill that supports independent living. At the Virtual Village Hall, you can learn how to make simple, tasty dishes using low-cost, store cupboard ingredients.

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Chef Mike Springer

Escovitch Fish

a close up of a copper cooking pan with brass handles and wooden cooking utensils in the background

Easy steamed chicken

Authentic traditional ceramic Moroccan tagine pots in a row

Moroccan lemon chicken tagine

a slice of lasagne topped with green herbs on a white plate

Lasagne

pink white and yellow sugar paste roses

Sugar paste roses

a lemon and poppy seed drizzle cake on a cooling rack surrounded by lemons

Lemon drizzle cake

a stack of homemade welsh cakes ready to be cooked

Making Welsh Cakes

Cheese Scones Michelle Wilding Istock 505218494

Cheese scones

a chocolate Christmas yule log on a wooden board decorated with red cranberries and green festive herbs

Yule log

a close up of a mini mince pie with a star shaped top dusted with icing sugar

Mince pies

different coloured macarons on a pink background

Macaron masterclass

lemon shortcake biscuits topped with white zigzag icing on a pink plate

Lemon shortbread

A slice of Christmas cake on a white plate with a small fork next to it and decorating with red berries and rosemary

Christmas cake

a stack of hot cross buns surrounded by chocolate mini Easter eggs

Hot cross buns

Banoffee Pie Michelle Wilding Istock 641085010

Banoffee pie