will actually be quite healthy - baked salmon for six with asparagus and potato salad. More of a Spring dish than a traditional Easter roast. I must be crazy, because every time my parents come for dinner I seem to choose something weird to cook - Christmas dinner was a massive lump of ribeye that took up my whole oven. Mum's birthday was a duck and that also took up the oven. I guess maybe I fear direct competition with my mother, knowing that my roast chicken or roast pork won't be as good, and that invites my father's least polite comments. He seems to have this thing in his head that my cooking is a joke. Funny really because the only people who seem to believe him are himself and his mother, and even she's having doubts now I've baked a cake that she managed to eat without dying. His comments aresometimes so mean that even my kids ask why Granddad is always so horrible to me. From his point of view he's only being funny, but I get a sore jaw from having to grit my teeth around his humour sometimes.

oh dear, off topic as ever. Just thought I'd offer up my relatively healthy Easter meal. We're away for a few days after Easter, which we all need badly for our sanity. Lots of lovely countryside walking and fresh air for everyone.

I have so many eating sins but am so lucky with my weight that I don't often feel I have much to offer here.

Kerri.