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Balinese or barbecue? Carl Clarke’s recipes for spicy chicken | Indonesian food and drink
These two dishes are perfect summer meals, whether cooked low and slow on a barbecue or in the oven. The spatchcocked chicken is very simple, …
How to make custard tart – recipe | Food
Not a crisp Portuguese pastéis de nata nor a solid French flan, but a rich and subtly sweet British custard tart of the kind that …
‘A mirage at the top of a hill’: food, drink and adventure in Spain’s Vejer de la Frontera | Andalucia holidays
Just above the horizon, wild horses gallop around a white domed building while, within petting distance, a small donkey munches on wild poppies and purple …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for apricot cake, and summer fruit frozen yoghurt | Food
Summer puddings are a doddle: ripe peaches torn apart and dropped into glasses of chilled muscat; strawberries, halved and tossed with passionfruit juice; melon sprinkled …
How to make carrot cake – recipe | Food
A medieval idea given a new lease of life by wartime rationing, carrots in desserts disappeared as soon as sugar became widely available again, only …
Strawberries without cream! 10 delicious savoury recipes for the fruit, featuring duck, burrata, turbot … | Food
The arrival of summer signals strawberry season in the UK, but there’s much more to this bright and juicy fruit than sickly jams and traditional …
Ask Felicity Cloake: readers grill our resident culinary perfectionist | Food
What is the logic behind the foods deemed suitable for the British breakfast? Traditionally, we eat bacon but not ham, kidneys but not liver, haddock …
A curry traybake and parmesan polenta: Ravinder Bhogal’s tomato recipes | Food
Tomatoes may be available all year, but the quality of those grown in the UK in summer is unsurpassed. Farmers’ markets display a bounteous beauty …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for summer soup with prawn cakes, and asparagus and broad bean soup | Food
Lunch was in the garden, with jam-jar flowers on the table and an odd assortment of chairs. A laid-back affair with a thick bean soup, …
Torta caprese and a coffee-free tiramisu: Kate and Giancarlo Caldesi’s Italian pudding recipes | Italian food and drink
Surrounded by lemon groves, almond and walnut trees, and with the Arab influence of the middle ages, the Amalfi coast boasts some of the best …
Broad bean salad and nettle risotto: Giorgio Locatelli’s early summer recipes from Lombardy | Food
Lombardy, where I’m from, is probably the wettest region in all of Italy, so it’s rather fitting that England is now my home, if only …
How to make coronation chicken – recipe | Food
Coronation chicken gets a bad rap: a name “synonymous with the mass-produced, sickly gloop wheeled out for lacklustre buffets”, as the food historian Polly Russell …
Nigel Slater’s goat’s cheese tart and gooseberry pudding recipes | Food
While I wait impatiently for the red and blackcurrants to appear in quantity and at a reasonable price, I make the traditional juice-saturated summer puddings …
Loving spoonfuls: 10 Australian chefs on their go-to winter soups | Food
For many Australians, incessant rain has made it feel as though we are already well into the winter months. As the weather cools and the …
Danish smørrebrød, Vietnamese salad rolls, scotch eggs – the 20 best recipes for eating outdoors | Food
A feast of easy outdoor eating. Perfect for you, for friends, for family. For the Jubilee weekend if the weather holds. Alfresco recipes to be …
Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for the perfect picnic | Food
There are two ways to do picnics, I think. You can do the supermarket sweep, of course, but that runs the risk of everyone bringing …
From the grill: Helen Graves’ barbecued salad recipes | Food
Charred green salad with burrata This was one of the biggest surprises for me during recipe testing for my book. As the germ of an …
Georgina Hayden’s recipes for momos and persephone salad | Food
I am a parenting cliche – I can’t tell you how many phrases come out of my mouth that make me sound like my own …
How to make the perfect gado-gado, Indonesia’s super-salad – recipe | Food
Gado is the Indonesian word for “mix”, so this much-loved salad’s name literally translates as “mix mix”, though, in truth, it’s so hearty, it feels …