What’s all this about the UK throwing away tons of food every year? Here in the appetite kitchen, we eat...
Among the greatest joys of summer are the berries the sunshine brings with it. But what to do with them? Try...
Everyone’s into the Good Life these days, which means a glut of produce from your own or your friends’ gardens. But what to do with it all? 1. Apples Peel, core and chop, stew lightly in a little sugar and water, divide into freezer tubs or bags and freeze for...
What can you not do without at Christmas? A show-stopping trifle? A great prawn cocktail? The ultimate sugar-baked ham? These...
Spring is sprung dear reader, and with it comes the joy of Easter. Here are some sweet treats to delight all the family Easter Kulich with Swiss meringue topping Meringue and chocolate nests Iced sugar biscuits...
This is barbecue season, folks…but how many of us really know what we’re doing? Jane Pikett serves up some hot...
If you’re going to do Christmas at home, you may as well do it properly. These 10 top tips all...
It’s soup season! Jane Pikett serves up the best of the autumn harvest in beautiful bowls of comfort and joy Roast butternut squash soup Hungarian mushroom soup Vegetable and paneer soup...
Would you believe that some foods – apart from the obvious mince and dumplings etc – have more warming qualities...
As the vegetable garden yields its autumn treasures, the temperature drops and the nights draw in, this is the season...
Time was, everyone pickled their garden and hedgerow glut, a few days each autumn set aside for the supremely satisfying task of suspending the best of the crop in splendid, vinegary animation and proudly arranging jars filled with all manner of things – beetroot, onions, walnuts, fruit, eggs – on...
