Even those in the anti-white-chocolate party go for this: all the white chocolate does is cut through the necessary bitterness of the cof...

This is another real favorite in my house, and something you can cook when you’re utterly exhausted. I buy vacuum-sealed packages of fre...

Look, I’m not claiming this is the healthiest breakfast in the world, but I think you can let them try their hand at these once in a whi...

Keema just means ground meat but the recipe here is for that fabulous sharp and spiky Indian dish of ground lamb with peas that makes a ...

I took it into my head one day that I wanted to marinate and cook some chicken with the flavors of a traditional sage-and-onion stuffing...

This is the ideal recipe to start with as it’s a model of good party food – simple to make and can be left to sit around happily. I’d ma...

This is an incredibly special dessert to be saved for some very meaningful occasions. Much love and time go into the preparation, but a masterpiece of beauty awaits at the end of this process. For this incredible dessert, it is suggested that you use peeled white peaches or nectarines for their significant look that adds to the dessert. Yellow peaches, however, can be used for a Golden Wedding party. With these you can get a desired look of bulging meringue that drips with gold in cases where you remove the blue-black seeds. Shaved coconut can also be a nice touch for special occasions.

I think the title says it all. Don’t you?

I agree it might sound odd to start off a wonderful fresh-sounding fruit recipe by suggesting frozen berries, but I do this just because...

Most grown-ups, too, would be ecstatic to be given Ritzy Chicken Nuggets for supper or lunch. When I eat them, this is the salad I make ...

This is just the thing to set children up for a night of marauding through the chilly streets trick-or-treating, or to warm them up once...

I was slightly anxious about including a cheesecake in this section as I’m not sure cheesecake counts as cake, but then a friend pointed...

Anything to do with avocados is necessarily a last-minute affair, but this is the easiest thing to make. You can just fork away distract...

There are few more welcome sights than a big vat of chilli. The cornbread topping is a glorious golden touch, that everyone can crumble ...

I’d probably double this – maybe even triple it to be honest – if I were having dinner for eight people, but that may be because I have ...

At this time of year, I think we all find it difficult to keep going between meals. This is the ideal, unnecessary but so gratifying fill...

This must be that gorgeously pink rhubarb that, on being roasted, turns a vivid, rock-candy puce. My feeling is that this is best, for br...

Just as I have never understood the sheer hostility that a turkey can induce in people, nor do I have much time for the antipathy displa...

I have spent more time than is reasonable wondering whether this recipe should actually be called aloo gobi or just cauliflower and pota...

I know it must be irritating for vegetarians to have me commend this by saying it tastes wonderful to meat-eaters too, but that happens ...

This recipe, along with many of the dips and salads here, is a variation on a dish I read about in Najmieh Batmanglij’s New Food of Life...

In all honesty, the origin of this cake is simply that I cannot make a go of a lemon meringue pie. I’ve tried, and I’ve tried, and it’s ...

I had the most wonderful Indian meal a few months back at a small restaurant in London’s Chelsea, called the Painted Heron, and this, or ...

If Easters early, and the wind still chill, then this is the sort of lamb youll want for your Easter lunch homey, warming, comforting...

I claim no authenticity for this particular fatoush: I’ve certainly never come across an avocado in a Middle-Eastern recipe, but I love t...

If you're looking for a side dish that all but sings with flavor, then this recipe for Green Bean and Lemon Casserole is it! This easy side dish recipe includes a generous amount of green beans and also abounds with flavor, providing a light and tangy contrast to any heavy and rich main dish that is on your menu. Using only five ingredients, this casserole is one that you will want up your sleeve the next time you need to make something at the last minute.

Even people who don’t like fish much love fishcakes, which may be a negative way in to this, but I thought it needed pointing out up fro...

There is something pleasingly biblical-sounding about the “with figs and honey.” And it certainly makes the sweet, aromatic stew appropr...

It’s something of a family joke that, whenever any of my siblings asks what I’m cooking for supper, it’s this. It’s less a recipe than a...

If this recipe looks like there’s nothing much to it, that’s because it’s true. You’re cutting up a lemon, chopping up some mint, and to...

I’ve decided on a hybrid system of nomenclature as you can see. I did think of being purist and giving this sweet, mellow curry its prop...

In some ways this is a non-meat-eater’s version of the baked rigatoni above, and it’s certainly true that for a big party I’d serve both...

This may seem to require an awful lot of mushrooms, but you have to remember how much they cook down what you find difficult to cram in...

Please, whatever you do, don’t open a bottle of champagne specifically for this. I mean, not unless you want to, and drink the other hal...

I think life is made very much easier if you can get as much stuff as possible done in advance. You can start making these and, once the...

I start with this recipe for the simple reason that it was what I made on the evening following my mother’s funeral. I don’t think anyone...

Ive always roasted honeyed parsnips alongside a turkey but as a marker of the culinary special relationship celebrated in this chapter, Ive remodelled slightly, adding intensity of sweetness to the already sweet parsnips, not with honey but with maple syrup. And actually, this is more than a change, its an improvement there is more ambiguity about the maple syrup, its sweetness less cloying.

If you’re making baked potatoes to go with the meat, or indeed some boiled new potatoes, tossed in a little pepper, salt and olive oil at...

Long thin strands of semolina-sweet pasta with clams is one of the great suppers of all time. There is one proviso: the sauce must be “i...

I like a very vanillary custard, so use an actual vanilla bean, split, with the little black seeds gritting up the yellow smoothness of t...

During the course of photographing this book, the mother of a very old friend of mine, Fiona Golfar, died, and this recipe is both a mem...

I hope I’m making your life easier when I say you should make this well in advance of dinner. This is not just because you need the britt...

These are not even remotely fancy: the "Ritzy" of the title refers to the crackers of the same famous name. I make crumbs out of them, an...