HIS is sadly going to be my last recipe for the Bury Times. Sadly for me, anyway — as I write them, I do wonder who on earth would have time to try any of the recipes.

In my house, preparing food is a mad scramble to feed my baying children something that is not only halfway acceptable to them, but also carries some trace of nutritional value.

Not easy, and emphatically not relaxing. I imagine it is the same for many people, so it seems almost perverse to write these lengthy and complicated recipes. “It’s so easy!” I tell you. “Quick and convenient!”

No. Fish fingers, oven chips and microwaved peas are easy, quick and convenient.

Anything else is, frankly, a bit of a schlep. I do dream of the day I can spend an entire Sunday pottering around my kitchen at home, making stuff and chatting to friends.

The reality is closer to this: I attempt to chuck together a lunch while my offspring fight, hang off my legs, throw stuff at each other, hang off my legs, wind each other up a bit more, hang off my legs and then finally reject whatever I put in front of them. God love ’em!

Anyway, they keep me busy — as does running the restaurant — and there’s a telly thing, and our Community Bakery Project (prest-bake.co.uk) and, well, it doesn’t leave much time for eating and sleeping, so I’m going to hand over to someone else. For a while at least.

I’ve loved doing it, and you’ve all been very kind to me so thank you for reading, Isabel Farnell, @jellopuss, Tess & Chris Chidgey and Muriel Young.

Don’t think I’ve missed anyone, but apologies if I have. Anyway, if you miss me terribly, I’m not far away. (That would be at Aumbry, 2 Church Lane, Prestwich, M25 1DB, Tel 0161 798 5841, just in case you weren’t sure.) I’m leaving you with some recipes for the best vegetable that ever there was. Or, joint-best alongside cauliflower, onions, potatoes and squash.

Anyway, I really like celeriac. I could claim that it’s versatile (or, that holy trinity — easy, quick and convenient...) but really it’s just so delicious that I wanted to share a couple of my favourite ways of preparing it.