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Lunch with Prue Leith, out favourite food books of 2023, plus cooks and writers on their best meals of the year
Each Christmas Eve, jolly “uncle” Bob, family friend and master butcher, would turn up at our house with a turkey the size of a small family car.
A Trini take on sweetcorn soup, plus a tropical twist on peaches and cream
Shivi Ramoutar
Tins of coconut milk are a store-cupboard staple that I always have ready to go. Adding them to a dish immediately gives it a hint of exoticism, so I’m sharing two tropical and rather less common ways in which to use coconut milk to create hassle-free, make-ahead dishes that will appeal to the whole family.… Read the rest
A fun way to serve leftover roast meat, especially when paired with a zingy slaw
Whether you’re a wilderness adventurer or a glamper, make your food one of the joys of the great outdoors
Nature is our default setting, so when the concrete seems especially hard underfoot, the buildings lean inwards and the arrow storm of stress casts a shadow overhead, I tend to head for the grassy places, cowpats and birdsong; if that also involves setting up camp among the bluebells by the side of a glistening stream, so much the better.… Read the rest