And what sort of food does it feature?

It's all family food and family recipes.

So you obviously cook a lot, what's your favourite meal to cook?

I love cooking roast dinners, I like making food that everyone can share, do you know what I mean. Big dishes of stuff, and having everyone around.

Do you cook a lot of healthy meals at home?

Yes, I do. I cook a lot of healthy meals at home, a lot of vegetables. Pretty much everything I make, I don't cook ready-meals. There are a few in the freezer, but I don't cook them very often. The odd children's pasta dish, but that's it. You can do so much now and it's so easy. It's so easy now we have so many fruit and vegetables in our supermarkets, that's why I try as much as possible to be healthy.

What do you do to keep healthy and fit?

I try and do yoga, and running around after Billie, (her adopted daughter, with husband Chris Coghill) but most of the time, I'm just so busy. Like now, I feel like I'm running everywhere.

Would you ever consider opening your own restuarant?

Not at the moment. I mean I love cooking, but I don't think I'm anywhere near opening my own restuarant.

Any more plans to go back into acting?

I've just finished filiming a drama in Guadalupe for the last three weeks. A BBC drama called Death in Paradise. With Ben Miller and it was really great fun, it was great to do some acting again.

What's that about?

It's a who-done-it? A detective drama set in the carribean, which was lovely really.

Yes we can imagine.

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