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Roast fish with dill butter and courgettes (Picture: supplied)
How to cook roast fish with dill butter and courgettes
Make Darina Allen’s roast fish with dill butter and courgettes.…
Ardsallagh goat’s cheese and thyme soufflé (Picture: supplied)
How to cook Darina Allen’s Ardsallagh goat’s cheese and thyme leaf soufflé
Make Darina Allen’s Ardsallagh goat’s cheese and thyme leaf soufflé…
Irish chef and food writer Darina Allen (Picture: supplied)
Darina Allen’s Ballymaloe at its very best
The history of Darina Allen’s famous Irish cookery school is brought to life on the pages of 30 Years At Ballymaloe…
Saffron-poached pears (Picture: supplied)
How to cook Darina Allen’s saffron-poached pears
Darina Allen’s saffron-poached pears recipe tastes just as good as former cookery school student Emma Sturgess remembers…
Win a £1,000 Kenwood foodie prize
To celebrate the launch of its Food Lovers Bucket List, Kenwood has teamed up with Roast Restaurant to offer Life&Style readers a roast dinner for…
Travel
Customers enjoying real ale at a Camra beer festival (Picture: Rex)
A beginner's guide to British beer festivals
Munich’s Oktoberfest finishes this weekend but hop-heads here have plenty of ways to feel the cheer of beer
How to make dark chocolate, rose and pistachio profiteroles
BlogSo episode seven of The Great British Bake Off tackled that tricky mistress choux pastry, when they made choux radishes. So celebrate with this really…
6 ways to eat healthily on a student budget
BlogThe gastronomic student can seem like an endless round of kebabs and Supernoodles, but there are plenty of ways you can eat healthily for less…
A nasi goreng special - complete with egg on top (Picture: Oli Jones)
How to cook the ultimate nasi goreng special
For chilli fetishists and thrifty cooks, nasi goreng made with a wallop of red chilli, a heady mix of spices and leftover rice, is up…
Top chefs Mark Hix and Theo Randall are on a mission to improve children's food in restaurants (Alamy)
Mark Hix and Theo Randall: Children’s menus must grow up
It shouldn’t be all about burgers, bangers and nuggets. Chefs Theo Randall and Mark Hix say restaurants should offer more choice to younger diners.…
Health
Delicious food still life
What are nutrients?
Start learning more about health with the British Dietetic Association. This week, Felicity Lyons explains what nutrients are…
Who really cares about Michelin stars?
BlogJust after 7am this morning chefs and restauranteurs all over the UK flocked to social media to find out who were the winners, keepers and…
Life & Style
Sketch
Guys' guide to London date venues: The Gallery at Sketch
BlogYou're a guy in London. You've somehow managed to convince a girl to go out with you, but you've discovered Nando's is no longer an…
What to do with a glut of green tomatoes
BlogWhereas you can't beat the flavour of a beautiful homegrown tomato versus shop bought, my motivation for growing these fruits every year is for their…
Warm lentil puree with onions (Picture: Dan Lepard)
Warm lentil purée with onions
Ingredients serves 4-6 4 large onions ♦ 3 tbsp olive oil, plus 75ml for frying ♦ 125g brown lentils ♦ 75g pudding or risotto rice…
Moussaka with tahini (Picture: Dan Lepard)
Moussaka with tahini
Ingredients serves 4 2 aubergines ♦ olive oil ♦ 1 large onion, finely chopped ♦ 4 garlic cloves, crushed ♦ 400g chopped tomatoes ♦ 1tbsp…
Recipe: Pecan and chocolate chip cinnamon swirls
BlogThis recipe for pecan and chocolate chip cinnamon swirls is so simple you can impress even the sternest of critics. You can really go to…
Restaurant review: Duck & Waffle, Heron Tower, 110 Bishopsgate, London, EC2
BlogI could tell I was going to enjoy Duck & Waffle, as we were fired up to the 40th floor of the Heron Tower in…
Professor Green (Picture: Rex)
Bar bites: celebrity tipples
Celebrity fragrances are big business. For stars keen to extend their brand, so too, it seems, is having your own beer or spirit…
La Gelateria, Covent Garden
London’s top 5 places for ice cream
Whether covered in multitudinous toppings, slathered in fruit, complete with chocolate flake, or simply some good old vanilla, there’s nothing like indulging in one of…
An autumnal red onion and goat’s cheese tart with a Gruyère-flavoured pastry base (Picture: Oli Jones)
How to cook the ultimate onion tart
A caramelised onion tart is great for warming the cockles as autumn creeps in…
Life & Style
fornata
Guys' guide to London date venues: Fornata
BlogYou’re a guy in London. You’ve somehow managed to convince a girl to go out with you, but you’ve discovered Nando’s is no longer an…
Damson & Co is a great little spot to watch the Soho crowds (Picture: supplied)
A British coffee bar where everything hits the spot
There’s a rum old mix of dishes on the menu of this ‘British coffee bar’.…
London's Boulestin restaurant is a little more of the same (Picture: James French)
Do we really need more bourgeois French cooking?
If a restaurant could have an existential crisis, I’d like to think that Boulestin would be asking itself: ‘Why am I here?…
Try this recipe for delicious maple pecan fudge (Picture: Tara Fisher)
How to cook maple pecan fudge
Try this delicious recipe from Annie Rigg’s Sweet Things…
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