When you make your favourite salad into a pie

What could improve a perfect salad? Turning it into a pie. Also, if you're in Manchester this Friday, I'll be talking and cooking at the Destinations Food & Travel show - do come and say hello.

It feels like spring today. The sky is blue, the air warm. Outside my window the sparrows are chattering out their lively chorus as they crowd around the bird feeders.

Of course, last week when our friends were here from Paris and Puglia, it was cold and grey. Not a bright Mediterranean sky to be had. It’s as though Marseillan has been keeping its best w…