It’s a bit like visiting a friend’s house: you go into her kitchen, she pours you both a glass of wine and you sit and chat as she rustles up a meal.

Cook with G is a new YouTube channel that replicates that experience. It features a series of dishes being cooked with mostly Manx ingredients by Grianne Joughin as she sips from a large glass of red.

’It’s very light-hearted. I don’t take myself too seriously,’ says Peel-based Grianne.

It all began with lockdown when her work in HR and marketing began to dry up as many of the businesses she worked with were forced to close. When she suggested the idea of a cooking channel to Ben Heath, the owner of one of the companies she worked with, Harbour Lights, he thought it was a great idea and offered to back her financially. ’He’s been great,’ Grianne says.

When it comes to sourcing ingredients for her dishes Grianne has stuck to the principle of using what she can easily buy under current circumstances.

’I cook with food I can actually get hold of and stick to the [lockdown] rules. All of it is sourced in Peel unless someone can drop it off for me. I buy a lot in Shoprite and if I can’t get hold of an ingredient I change the recipe and use something else instead.’

When it comes to her favourite food Grianne says it’s: ’Real food with a variety of colour, a variety of textures and a variety of flavours and if it’s also local it just gives you that feeling of being better. Real food excites you to look at and it tastes good. Herbs are my best friend.’

A particular favourite at the moment are her ’hot salads’ which feature in a couple of her videos and prove that a bunch of veggies is anything but boring.

Grianne says: ’I like to use charred meat with warm bread and roasted vegetables over raw salad and add toasted nuts. It gives a massive variety of colour and flavour.’

She has been at home during lockdown with her husband Jamie, a musician, son Frank, 11, and daughter Lowena, eight.

’It’s been nice to have the opportunity to be in the kitchen and cook to my heart’s content,’ she says.

And she adds that a drink whilst cooking is ’absolutely’ vital to the whole process: ’I look forward to that moment in the day when you’ve finished doing things with the kids, when you can pour yourself a glass of wine and get lost in the kitchen.’

â?¢ If you’re looking for inspiration for what to do with your fresh line-caught callig from Mackerel Mann, see Grianne’s video: Posh Manx Callig and Gnocchi Roasties.