His saucy cooking style is more Carry On than Jamie Oliver.

In between giving injections or changing bandages, trainee nurse Luke Cox has been busy thinking up risque recipes for his brazen new book, Rude Food.

He may strive to keep people's blood pressure down by day but in his alter ego as a successful author, Luke is sending heart rates soaring by encouraging saucy goings-on among pots and pans.

The 25-year-old from Elm Grove, Brighton, has drawn on his own romantic repertoire to produce a deliciously naughty cook book that will leave anyone with an appetite drooling with hunger - and desire.

His culinary concoctions leave little to the imagination. Recipes for Thai Turkey Love Balls and Potato Egg Breasts nestle alongside old gems like Toad in the Hole and Spotted Dick.

From saucy starters to desirable desserts, all the recipes hold the tantalising promise of a successful seduction.

Rude Food, the follow-up to Luke's first book, The BBQ And Campfire Recipe Book, includes an A to Z of sexy food, cocktail recipes and ideas for food foreplay.

Luke puts his culinary expertise down to his first job in a Hove residential home - and his mum.

After drifting through his student days barely knowing one end of an egg whisk from the other, Luke was asked to make a shepherd's pie for nine people on his first day at work.

He said: "It took off from there. I learnt a lot. The best chef I know is still my mum."

Struck by the idea that romance starts in the kitchen, Luke set about putting together a selection of aphrodisiac recipes.

He compiled an internet questionnaire and asked his friends to nominate recipes that turned them on.

He said: "It was all anonymous but I found out all about their weird sexual ideas, the most romantic meals they remembered and the food that got the best results. It was very useful."

Rude Food is published by Summersdale, priced £4.99.