Recipes
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How to eat seasonally in July, by Tom Parker Bowles
The chef and food writer Tom Parker Bowles on the culinary highlights of July, from artichoke to watercress — plus a recipe which will persuade you that broad beans aren't all bad.
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Tom Parker Bowles: Gooseberries are 'a fat green blob wearing three-day stubble' — but I love them anyway
The gooseberry might be the least sexy of all fruit, resembling a fat green blob wearing a three-day growth of stubble. Yet it adds a welcome sharpness to jellies, jams and a simple fool, says Tom Parker Bowles.
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How to make strawberry and lemon cake, topped with chamomile whipped cream
Melanie Johnson is here with what is ostensibly a cake, but is in fact a truck to drive straight through your early-summer diet plans.
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How to make gnocchi with peas, spinach, asparagus and mozzarella
If ever a vegetable's diminutive size belied the flavour it delivers, it's the pea. Melanie Johnson shares a recipe to make the most of the fresh crop.
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How to make a 'carrot cake' swiss roll
Melanie Johnson shares her recipe for an unusual — but delicious — take on carrot cake.
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How to make tarragon chicken with garlic-roasted new potatoes
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful creamy tarragon chicken recipe.
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How to make crusted salmon with watercress and wasabi
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful way to cook salmon that makes the most of the new season's watercress.
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Perfect Coronation street party recipes, from Mary Berry's ultimate scones to Tom Parker Bowles' irresistible coronation chicken
Emma Hughes collects the best Platinum Jubilee street party recipes from some of Britain's best-loved chefs and food writers.
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How to make radish and radicchio risotto
Melanie Johnson shares a recipe that brings zing and colour to a classic risotto.
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An exquisite prawn pasta dish to make the most of the new season's asparagus
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson is as excited as the rest of us by the first asparagus of the season.
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How to make creamy chicken and spring-onion cobbler
Spring onions are for more than merely salads, says our Kitchen Garden Cook Melanie Johnson.
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A superb salmon dish to bring out the best in the new crop of Jersey Royals
Melanie Johnson shares a salmon recipe ideal to go with 'perfect' Jersey Royals.
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Eight perfect pancake recipes for Shrove Tuesday
Enjoy our foolproof pancake recipe - and eight enticing ways to make them better than ever.
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How to use oranges to brighten up your February food, by Tom Parker Bowles
It may look a little dull compared with other fruit, but the zingy orange was once the preserve of kings and nothing beats its sweet and sharp magic when it comes to brightening up a dreary winter day, says Tom Parker Bowles.
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How to make mustard and Parmesan chicken with parsnip rösti
Kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a winter warming recipe — a chicken dish which really zings.
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How to make butter chicken with broccoli
‘Broccoli is an exciting green at a time of year when the kitchen garden feels a little sparse,' says our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson as she shares this recipe.
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Soup: The universally-adored comfort food, offering reassurance, consolation, succour and delight
Whether it’s a laborious bouillabaisse, a sophisticated French consommé or a citrusy avgolemono, no dish is as comforting or democratic as soup, says Tom Parker Bowles.
