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, …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for broad bean, spinach and filo pie, and broad bean and tahini cream | Food
The first broad beans in the shops are usually from Italy, their small pods as lumpy as a Christmas stocking, their contents needing only the …
Elena Silcock’s fruity salad recipes for early summer | Salad
Salads never get the limelight they deserve and are often misunderstood. Many people have a set idea of what a salad is – usually that …
Yotam Ottolenghi’s summer salad recipes | Food
I feel like a kid in a sweetshop at this time of year, rubbing my hands (or my tummy, more honestly) in anticipation of all …
From soup with a pickle salad to deep-fried sesame-coated bites: Ravinder Bhogal’s cucumber recipes | Summer food and drink
Cool, crunchy and refreshing, cucumbers are like a breeze in a bowl. And there is a lot more to them beyond green salad and sandwiches. …
From fishy parcels to pineapple sorbet: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for cooking with herbs | Food
It’s not a plot-spoiler to say that I love herbs. Great big bunches of them make me happy and hungry, and I can’t imagine cooking …
Cheese scones and fried scallops: Claire Thomson’s cauliflower snacks – recipes | Food
Cauliflower cheese scones These are best eaten just warm from the oven, spread with salted butter and a good blob of dijon mustard. Prep 15 …
Georgina Hayden’s healthy budget dishes for kids – recipes | Vegetarian food and drink
Cooking for kids can be the biggest meal battleground: one day, they’ll eat something you have lovingly made with gusto, only to push it away …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for asparagus and cannellini beans, and salmon with tomato | Fish
I wanted a sauce, quick to make, bright, tart and refreshing, that would work with whatever I brought back from the shops. The only rule …
Butter-fried new potatoes and a crunchy dip: Ravinder Bhogal’s recipes for jersey royals | Spring food and drink
I’m a sucker for all potatoes, and jersey royals are currently flavour of the month. Their waxy interior and flimsy skins require little more than …
Recipes for Ramadan: Maryam Hanifi’s Afghani chicken and orange rice (narange palow) | Food
Hosting dinner events was an essential part of our household when I was a young. I grew up in Kandahar city in a predominantly Pashtun …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for baked sausages with rhubarb chutney, and apricot cheesecake | Food
Of all the things I am unable to grow – cauliflowers, lavender, globe artichokes (the list is longer than I would like) – rhubarb remains …
Carla Lalli Music’s recipes for pork chops, and kimchi rice and shrimps | Food
When cooking, I like to use inactive time to my advantage. These two recipes exemplify that approach perfectly: while the pork chops are absorbing their …