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Recipe: Roast red pepper hummus with tortilla crisps Dec 09 2011

ROAST red pepper hummus, apart from being delicious, is a colourful festive take on traditional regular hummus.Read

Recipe: Pink roasted duck, chestnut and thyme risotto, Seville oranges Dec 02 2011

CHRISTMAS is coming and the goose is getting fat… Try this delicious festive recipe for pink roasted duck from The Rose & Crown at Romaldkirk in County Durham.Read

Hake with samphire and potatoes Dec 02 2011

HAKE is a white fish, related to the cod and haddock family, and is considered reasonably sustainable, especially in comparison to cod itself. Read

Jamie Oliver's Thai green curry Nov 18 2011

THIS green curry recipe is one of the best I’ve ever made. It’s also good made with chicken instead of prawns – just swap in a skinless chicken breast (approximately 180g), slice into finger-sized strips and stir-fry it with the paste for around 8 minutes before adding the other ingredients.Read

Roast partridge Nov 10 2011

TO tie in with National Taste of Game Fortnight, Jane Lovett tells you how to cook roast partridge.Read

Lemon tart Nov 04 2011

THIS week's recipe is for a large - rather than individual - lemon tart. Enough for six to eight people, it's very easy but you need to start thinking about it a number of hours, or even the day before, you do it.Read

Madeira cake with buttercream frosting Oct 28 2011

CLEARLY this is a big cake (I bake in slabs and cut to size). So if you think a smaller quantity is all that is needed, just half everything.Read

Creamy chicken-stuffed pumpkin Oct 28 2011

AM I imagining it or does Halloween get more hyped up every year? Since I was a child – which was quite a long time ago, obviously – it seems to have become hugely commercialised (a bit like those Happy Valentine’s Day to my Grandmother/Father greetings cards that now appear).Read

Pinscar Crag Organic Mutton with Irish Stew Oct 21 2011

ASK half a dozen people "in the know" their definition of mutton and you'll often get six different answers.Read

Jean- Christophe Novelli's slow-braised honey and cider caramelised pork belly Oct 14 2011

Jean- Christophe Novelli's slow-braised honey and cider caramelised pork bellyRead

Venison tartare Oct 07 2011

I ONCE employed a chef who used to say that cooking was simply burning bits of food to various degrees. Funny but untrue. Making a salad's cooking so, therefore, must be a raw meat dish.Read

Poor Wives of Belford Oct 07 2011

IT'S British Egg Week from October 10-16, and Belford-based Sunny Hill Eggs in Northumberland is proud to fly the flag for their own free-range eggs. Sisters Catherine Armstrong and Christine Jackson head up the business at the family farm, which is home to 60,000 birds.Read

Thai beef curry Sep 30 2011

Spice up cooler autumn evenings with this fragrant and warming Thai beef curry dishRead

Apple and walnut crumble with pouring cream Sep 23 2011

OUR customers love crumbles. And now that we're in the apple season it seems logical to buy some local varieties and make our own.Read

Apple tarte tatin Sep 16 2011

THIS being the day before British Food Fortnight 2011, Jane inspires with a tutti fruity classic tarte tatin using the best of British fruits.Read

Baked mackerel with lemon and fennel Sep 09 2011

This very simple recipe makes the most of mackerel - an inexpensive, oily fish, in season from June to October which is extremely healthy.Read

Venison-stuffed chicken Aug 26 2011

WHEN chicken’s good it can actually be some of the best meat to eat. But usually the stuff we’re offered in the shops is the intensively-raised variety that lacks its full potential. So we’ve come up with a dish that is lifted by the use of another meat stuffing and uses the tasty and less expensive legs of a chicken.Read

Summer taste sensations Aug 19 2011

Summer may be a bit of a wash-out so instead bring a ray of sunshine into the kitchen with these light and summery seasonal dishes.Read

Beetroot, red pepper and goat's cheese tart Aug 12 2011

KATHARINE CAPOCCI offers seasonal inspiration with these super-stylish summery dishes, perfect for picnics or a spot of Bank Holiday entertaining with friends.Read

Summer cakes and tray bakes Aug 05 2011

COOK Rebecca Hedley, who features in our Taste lead story today, has just won two Great Taste awards for her Proud to be Ginger Nut biscuits and her Sugar Plum Fairy Christmas pudding.Read