Food and drink

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Black grape and red wine sorbet

This is incredibly easy and has a lovely autumnal flavour. Make sure you make it with fresh grapes for the best possible flavour. It’s an ideal end to a rich meal, perfect after a sticky, meaty braise. Requires 2 hours chilling time and around 6 hours, 45 minutes freezing time. Overview Prep time 15 mins Cook time 5 mins Serves 8 Ingredients 120g g...

Viral 'school cake' recipe will transport you back in time in 40 easy minutes

Take a trip down memory lane and make a sprinkle sponge cake like the ones we all enjoyed at school - it doesn't take long to prepare and only uses cheap ingredients

Chicken and apricot stew with preserved lemon, harissa and eggs

Batch Tip This flavourful stew works well when cooked in bulk and frozen. Just prepare the eggs, toasted hazelnuts and parsley breadcrumbs on the day you want to serve, and team the whole thing with basmati rice, flatbreads, couscous or potatoes. Overview Prep time 15 mins Cook time 2 hrs 20 mins Serves 4 Ingredients vegetable oil, for frying2 onio...

Mum's 'easy' pasta bake recipe has unique twist that families love

Pasta bakes are a go-to family dinner for many parents, but one mum has shared a unique twist that ensures 'flavour in every bite' - and it's incredibly simple too

You're cooking pasta wrong - Italians wince at how Brits 'ruin flavour'

A number of Italian chefs have shared their top tips on how to cook the perfect pasta dish, which will help you avoid the most common cooking mistakes we all make

Chef's unique trick for crispy bacon every time that doesn't involve oil

Chef Roice Bethel has shared a 'game-changing' hack for cooking bacon. He says you should do this to get 'perfectly crispy' results every time - and it helps to stop it shrinking

Cod, smoked haddock and romanesco bake

Batch Tip Whizzed-up breadcrumbs from the end of a loaf can be stored in the freezer. As long as they’re very dry to begin with, you don’t need to defrost them. Double up the bake quantities for future lunches or dinners. The romanesco could be substituted for broccoli at other times of the year. Overview Prep time 10 mins Cook time 30 mins Serves ...

M&S launches new £10 dine in meal beating cost of favourite British takeaway

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Store onions in best kitchen spot so they stay fresh for weeks longer

Onions are a staple ingredient in many dishes and can last much longer than their best before date if you know where to store them in the kitchen - an expert has shared a top tip

Simple method to reuse leftover vegetables where they last for 'up to a month'

Looking for ways to cut down your food waste? Well one expert has shared a simple yet effective way to do so.

Quick and easy tasty breakfast muffins recipe - and only takes 15 minutes to cook

When it comes to cooking in the morning some of us don't have enough time due to our hectic schedules.

Jack Monroe’s spaghetti alla puttanesca

Batch Tip This recipe for the traditional tomato-based sauce can easily be doubled and, once made, individually portioned into jars or containers and kept in the fridge or freezer for a quick last-minute supper. Overview Prep time 5 mins Cook time 20 mins Serves 2 Ingredients 4 fat garlic cloves1 fresh red chilli, chopped2 tbsp oil1 x 400g tin of c...

Jamie Oliver's 'warming' chicken pie recipe is perfect for cold autumn nights

It can feel like a big effort to cook something hearty when all you want to do is cosy up on the sofa - but darker evenings are made more manageable with something tasty in the oven

Top that! What are the best things to put on toast?

Sometimes, only toast will do, whether it’s thickly cut and slathered with butter (and maybe combined with flaky salt and topped with sliced radishes), popped under a mound of sauteed mushrooms (take Guardian food columnist Meera Sodha’s lead and stir in some brown and white miso), or bulked up with cheesy curried butter beans à la Yotam Ottolenghi. Toast can do it all, and at any time of day. That said, I think we can all agree that toast is...

Tom Kerridge’s turkey with bacon and chestnut butter

This is one of my very favourite ways of elevating the humble turkey – all of the flavours and seasonings within the butter soak into the turkey meat and help make it super juicy and tasty. Do have a play with the spices that go into the butter: think maple syrup, star anise, even curry flavours, whatever you like. I hope you enjoy this top tip as ...

St Clements Butter Broccoli Recipe

This fresh, zesty butter goes wonderfully with broccoli, or any veg or fish for that matter!

Semifreddo

Ice-cream lovers rejoice! Semifreddo (semi-frozen) could be your new best friend – it allows you to celebrate all that you love about ice cream, but gives you the ability to achieve fantastic results without an ice-cream machine. Enjoy a scoop of this super-classy, delicious dessert on its own or alongside a warm tasty tart. Requires 3 hours freezi...

How to stack your fridge and make food last longer

If you’ve never given that much thought to how you organise the food in your fridge, now could be the time to start. Social media videos of people restocking their fridges (and those of their children and pets – yes, in some cases we’re talking about personalised mini fridges for every member of the household) are hitting astonishing numbers with s...

Brunch salad

This is a light version of a sort of full English breakfast, but in salad form. You can vary the ingredients, adding mushrooms, rashers of bacon or fried-bread croutons; you could do a poached egg, quail’s eggs or even half a scotch egg – the choices are endless. Overview Prep time 15 mins Cook time 15 mins Ingredients 3 eggs, 1 of them beaten1 tbs...

Jamie Oliver's 90p pizza recipe will make you ditch takeaways for good

You don't have to break the bank to get your pizza-fix - celebrity TV chef Jamie Oliver has rustled up a delicious at-home recipe that only costs 90p per portion

How to make homemade franui? these trendy chocolate raspberries!

Snacks: Discover the recipe that's creating a buzz on social networks:"Franui"! These chocolate-covered raspberries have become our favorite snack. Imagine delicious raspberries coated in two layers of chocolate (white and milk), for maximum indulgence :-) What's

Potatoes stay fresh 6 months longer without sprouting or turning green if kept in 1 place

Sprouting, mushy and green potatoes are such a problem; thankfully, there's a way to make them last much longer.

James Martin shares 90p kitchen staple that takes scrambled egg 'to the next level'

The famous chef and TV presenter James Martin explains how to make the perfect scrambled eggs - and the one ingredient that can elevate your eggs to a 'Michelin style' of deliciousness

Creamy salmon traybake recipe that's ‘easy and delicious' only takes 5 minutes to prepare

This creamy salmon, leek and potato traybake can be prepped in just five minutes - making it the perfect dish for a midweek meal.

Five-minute air fryer recipe creates 'amazing' s'mores dip that's 'perfect for winter'

A TikTok food expert has revealed her method for creating s'mores in the air fryer - something she describes as the perfect go-to snack for winter

Plum-choco: The irresistible homemade delight for winter days

As soon as delicious, ripe plums appear, it's time to stock up the home pantry with a few jars of exceptionally tasty plum conserve. It's so delicious that it's hard to resist eating it straight from the jar. Though, in principle, you don't really need to limit yourself because it's a healthier alternative to creams and spreads. When the sweet arom...

This is the easiest way to wrap a bottle of wine

Have you tried it?

Mexican-style cucumbers: The zesty new staple your pantry needs

In my pantry, I must have preserves that help get through the times when fresh vegetables and fruits are either unavailable or simply not tasty. Alongside the mandatory pickled cucumbers, I also make plenty of room for delicious Mexican-style cucumbers. Their unique brine gives them an amazing taste and aroma. Crispy, slightly spicy, and incredibly...

Make poached eggs without boiling water with unusual 5-minute technique

If you're searching for a quick and innovative way to prepare poached eggs fast, this recipe using a rather unconventional is a must-try.

Spice up your summer with this zesty zucchini recipe

When you think you've tried every zucchini recipe, suddenly, a new one appears that changes your approach to this vegetable. Saying that zucchini is "versatile" and "universal" is perhaps an understatement. This time, I encourage you to try spicy zucchini. Zucchini is the true queen of summer. You've probably eaten it many times and in many differe...

Jack Stein’s ultra-umami get-ahead gravy

Keep the gravy covered in the fridge until you want to use it. Overview Serves Makes 800ml Ingredients 2 shallots, finely chopped2 garlic cloves, finely choppeda sprig of thyme1 tbsp vegetable oil1 tsp salt375ml red wine1l beef stock 1 tsp Marmite4 tsp soy sauce1 tbsp rice wine vinegar50g unsalted butter, cold Method Step 1 Buy some good quality fr...

Simple 20-minute air fryer trick to make 'crispy' jacket potatoes with 'fluffy' inside

A woman has shared her 'game-changing' recipe for making jacket potatoes in an air fryer and people can't believe how easy and energy efficient it is to make the spuds

How to cook the perfect corn chowder – recipe

If there’s a single ingredient that unites Americans from Cape Horn to Canada, it’s maize. One of the sacred Three Sisters of indigenous north and central American diets, it’s revered as a god in Mesoamerican culture – and treasured in the UK largely as a way to bulk out tuna sandwiches. Disrespectful, perhaps, but then this is not a plant that was much grown here – for human consumption, at least – until relatively recently, so it’s not...

Yotam Ottolenghi’s chocolate ripple fridge cake recipe

An Australian classic that can be enjoyed all over the world.

Potatoes stay fresh weeks longer without rotting if stored in one key area

This one common storage mistake could make your potatoes carcinogenic.

Whitebait with mayonnaise

Overview Prep time 12 mins Cook time 10 mins Serves 4 Ingredients For the mayonnaise 2 egg yolks1 tbsp Dijon mustard1 tbsp wine vinegar250ml oil - I use grapeseed oil as I think it gives the best resultsLemon juice, to taste For the fish 400g whitebait, washed in ice-cold, salty water, then driedGroundnut oil, for deep-frying40g plain flour1 tsp En...

Home Bargains selling its own 'delicious' pumpkin spiced latte for 89p

Instead of spending money at Starbucks, you can now enjoy a cheap and cheerful cup of pumpkin spiced coffee for 89p thanks to Home Bargains

A pour decision: Sangria with €120,000 worth of Petrus, anyone?

A video posted online has become the subject of numerous outraged comments. It shows patrons of a bar on the Côte d'Azur concocting a sangria with one of the world's most expensive wines... View on euronews

Clean 'burnt' stainless steel pans in 15 minutes with 2 ingredients - no scrubbing

If your stainless steel pans are scorched and burnt, an easy trick will bring them back to life in quick time.

Pumpkin Spice Season is Here, and it Isn't Just for Coffee — Here's All the Fall-Scented Decor Your Neighbors are Shopping Right Now

From candles to trash bags, the pumpkin spice craze has infiltrated the shopping carts of fall lovers nationwide

6 delectable foodie holidays with celebrity chefs

The best gourmet tours with famous food and wine experts

Strawberries last 'much longer' with simple method as common cleaning product dispelled

Extend the shelf life of your berries and keep them mould-free with an easy method that includes no vinegar.

This is when you should put your central heating on

And how to be energy efficient once you've flicked the switch

Smeg blender ‘perfect for making tasty soup' gets a £50 price cut as cold weather sets in

The Smeg retro 50s style blender is currently on sale for £147.99- that's 26 per cent off the usual price – and it's perfect for making tasty soups ahead or winter, or your morning smoothies

'Best ever' marry me chicken recipe is ready in less than 30 minutes

A home cook has shared her recipe for the ultimate 'marry me chicken' dish, said to be so irresistible that it will have your partner ready to pop the question.

11 reliably good wine brands

The world of big wine brands is a minefield. Trust to luck and you might end up with a serious bargain – a brilliant bottle on special offer. But then again you might get a truly disappointing glass of jammy sweetness or plain blandness. So when you’re in a rush – dashing to the supermarket or picking up a bottle from the off-licence to take to a f...

Jamie Oliver's quick and easy salmon pasta recipe perfect for busy weeknights

With very few ingredients needed to create this dish, you will be sure to impress your guests with this salmon pasta that uses lasagne sheets instead, for a rustic twist

'Delicious' iced coffee cake recipe is easy to make using all-in-one method

This recipe for a quick glazed coffee loaf is described as "deliciously soft and seriously moreish" - and it doesn't require a complex list of ingredients.

Jamie Oliver's 'super easy' leek and potato soup recipe takes 20 minutes to cook

Jamie Oliver's tasty take on a traditional classic of leek and potato soup is the perfect comfort food now there's a nip in the air.