Nick Clegg's Wife Reveals Secret Food Blog

Nick Clegg's wife has been writing an anonymous food blog for the last three years without telling Lib Dem party officials.

Miriam Gonzalez Durantez revealed she and her three sons regularly upload their favourite recipes to the blog.

The 46-year-old, the daughter of two Spanish teachers, made the the revelation during an online chat on the website Mumsnet.

The blog has been in operation at the address www.mumandsons.com.

Ms Gonzalez Durantez, who has been married to Mr Clegg since 2000 after meeting him while he was working in Europe, wrote on Mumsnet: "I am careful at what I eat.

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"I like cooking a lot and make the point of teaching my children to cook as well. I actually have a cooking blog with my children that I have been running with them for the last three years (when my husband's advisers learn this they are going to freak out!).

"Since I am going to be told off for sharing this with you, just promise me that in exchange you will register at the Inspiring Women Campaign (I am going to be watching!)."

On the blog's front page, Ms Gonzalez Durantez wrote: "My two eldest boys challenged me to start a cooking blog with simple recipes that we can cook together - and my youngest one has now joined in.

"I am hoping they pick up some cooking and photograph skills... or that at least they learn to design and run a blog."

Soon after the secret was out, the Lib Dem leader's wife wrote a new introduction directing people towards the Inspiring Women Campaign - one of the causes she supports.

Among the 214 recipes that feature on the site are ones for "tiny tortillas with shrimps", "milk buns" and "Easter chickpea and spinach soup".

As part of the commentary for some of the recipes, she reveals small hints about the Liberal Democrat leader's home life.

She says that two of their sons do not enjoy asparagus and describes how at one school parents' evening, she was dismayed to find out one of her son's favourite foods was chilli Doritos.

The revelations came as Nick Clegg took part in an art class at Richmond Adult Community College in London.

During the Mumsnet chat, she also defended her husband against the accusation that he had turned his back on his beliefs.

Referring to the Lib Dems failure to abolish university tuition fees, she wrote: "He was not elected Prime Minister. There was one promise he could not get in(to) the coalition negotiations.

"But he got every single policy in the front page of the Lib Dem manifesto. Every single one."