Miriam Gonzalez Durantez: Lawyer, wife of Nick Clegg and a secret food blogger

Durantez said that Clegg's lawyers 'would freak out' at the learning of the cooking website she has been running with her children for the last three years

Miriam Gonzalez Durantez takes part in a healthy-eating class in Glasgow in 2013 (Getty Images)

With three children, a high-powered legal job and a husband away helping to run the country, it would be fair to say that Nick Clegg’s wife has a lot on her plate.

But Miriam Gonzalez Durantez has revealed that, on top of her other commitments, she had been writing a secret cookery blog for the past three years.

The 46-year-old international trade lawyer made the revelation during an online chat with members of Mumsnet and joked the disclosure might get her in trouble.

During the chat she wrote: “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!)”

“I like cooking a lot and make the point of teaching my children to cook as well.”

The website, mumandsons.com, contains recipes for dozens of dishes, mainly Spanish-themed.

One recipe is for “Tiny tortillas with shrimps” (tortillitas de camarones). She describes the dish as “a wonderful tapa from the South of Spain”, adding: “Children like making them as it is a bit like making pancakes (the olive oil is very hot though, so be careful if they approach the frying pan).”

mumandsons.com, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez's Spanish-themed recipe blog

In the wide-ranging discussion on Mumsnet, Ms Gonzalez also said her own mother has come over from Spain to help out at home during the election campaign and that her mother-in-law usually drops by one day a week.

She said that being married to Nick Clegg and seeing British politics so close up had been a “privilege” over the past five years.

She wrote: “I do not agree at all with the victim complex that seems to be applied recently to some politicians and their families.

“If there are difficult times, we deal with them together as a family, as I suppose most families do. But I can guarantee you that most of what families of politicians go through is nothing in comparison to the issues that other families have to deal with.”

Asked which of Mr Clegg’s achievements she was proud of, she said the “stabilisation of the economy at a truly difficult economic time”, and the pupil premium, adding: “This was the revolutionary education idea of the last five years, not free schools.”

She also defended her husband against the accusation he had turned his back on his beliefs after the last election.

Miriam Gonzalez Durantez with her husband at the Lib Dem Spring Conference last month (Getty) (Getty Images)

She wrote: “He was not elected prime minister. There was one promise (one) he could not get in the coalition negotiations. But he got every single policy in the front page of the Lib Dem manifesto. Every single one.

“Free tax allowance, shared parental leave, pupil premium, extended hours of childcare, the green investment bank, the bank levy, a record number of apprenticeships, putting mental health on the same level of importance as physical health... you tell me any other party that has done all that with just 56 MPs.”

Asked about SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, she said she was glad to see more female politicians in this campaign compared to 2010.

But she added: “I am in favour of politicians who want to work for the whole country, not break the country apart.”