Recipe index
(v) - vegetarian; (gf) - gluten-free
Breakfast and brunch
- Clare's Budwig Muesli (v, gf)
- Shakshuka
- Uova in purgatorio (eggs 'in purgatory') (v, gf)
Canapes, mezze and tapas
- Baba ganoush (v, gf)
- Charlie’s olive, goat’s cheese and roast cherry tomato tartlets (v)
- Cheese and chard triangles (v)
- Dolmades (gf)
- Falafel (v)
- Huevos cordoniz (Quail egg with jamon on baguette)
- Hummus (v, gf)
- Hummus with spiced lamb and pine nuts (gf)
- Pimientos de padrón rellenos (Padrón peppers stuffed with black pudding from Movida Rustica)
- Pinchos (Chicken skewers from Movida Rustica) (gf)
- Pork and prawn wontons with coriander and water chestnuts
- Smoked mackerel pate (gf)
- Smoked salmon dip (gf)
- Smoked salmon quesadillas
- Thai fish cakes (gf)
- Tzatziki (v, gf)
See also under salads and vegetables; poultry
Meat
Beef
- Albondigas árabe (Moorish meatballs)
- Dad's Mexican mince
- La Nonna Pettineo's ragu
- Oxtail ragu, simply the best
- Ragu alla Bolognese
- Ray’s meatballs
See also under pies, savoury tarts and pastries
Lamb
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s roast breast of lamb with fennel salt (gf)
- Hugh Foster's spicy lamb mince with pine nuts (gf)
- Jamie Oliver’s spicy lamb shanks
- Madhur Jaffery's Kolhapuri lamb (gf)
- Moussaka (gf)
- Rack of lamb with smoked aubergine puree and harissa (gf)
Pork
- Bahn Mi
- Chinese crisp-roasted pork belly with soy and ginger dressing, steamed pak choi and rice (gf)
- Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's sticky apple balsamic spare ribs (gf)
See also under canapes and tapas; pasta, rice and noodles; salads and vegetables; soups and stews
Poultry
- Buffalo wings with blue cheese sauce (gf)
- Chicken, chorizo and cannellini bean casserole (gf)
- Chicken, chorizo and chickpea stew (gf)
- Chicken satay with spicy peanut sauce (gf)
- Gilpin's chicken tagine thing (gf)
- Thai red duck curry (gf, but check the ingredients if using shop bought curry paste)
See also under canapes and tapas; soups and stews; pies, savoury tarts and pastries; salads and vegetables
Seafood
Fish
- Dad's scallops and a recipe for beurre blanc (gf)
- Dalmatian-style marinated anchovies (gf)
- Pan-fried plaice fillets with chunky salsa verde, puy lentils and garlic croutons
- Smoked mackerel and sorrel omelette (gf)
- Zapacena riba (Croatian oven-baked fish) (gf)
Shellfish and crustaceans
- Dad's Provençal seafood stew (gf)
- King prawns with Dad's benchmark aioli (gf)
- Mussel buzara
- Scampi (or prawn) buzara
See also under pies, savoury tarts and pastries; pasta, rice and noodles; salads and vegetables
Soups and Stews
- Bigos (Polish pork, sausage and sauerkraut stew)
- Claudia Roden's potaje de garbanzos y espinacas (Spanish chickpea and spinach stew) (v)
- Cheaper by the oven's sausage, lentil and bacon stew (gf)
- Ezogelin çorbası (Turkish red lentil and bulgar soup with mint and Aleppo pepper) (v)
- Pozole Rojo (Red pork and hominy soup) (gf)
- Stephanie Alexander’s Morrocan-inspired chicken
- Tomyumpkin soup (v)
See also under seafood
Pies, savoury tarts, pizza and pastries
Pies
- Beef and Guinness pie
- Creamy chicken pie with leeks, mushrooms and bacon
- Duck pie
- Torta Pasqualina (Italian Easter pie)
Savoury tarts and pastries
- Dad's empanadas
- Elizabeth Hodder’s tomato, onion and goat’s cheese tart (v)
- The tart (v)
- Leek and stilton tart (v)
- Regan's beetroot and goat's cheese tarte tatin (v)
See also under canapes and tapas
Pizza
Pastry
- Rough puff pastry (v)
- Shortcrust pastry (v)
Pasta, grains, rice and noodles
Pasta
- Angela Hartnett’s rabbit pappardelle
- Artichoke spaghetti with chilli, lemon and parsley (v)
- Prawn spaghetti and variations
- Smoked salmon fettuccine with dill and capers
Grains
Rice
Salads and vegetables
Salads
- Angela Hartnett’s ricotta and spring vegetable salad (v, gf)
- Chorizo and morcilla salad with boiled egg (gf)
- Claudia’s pomegranate and feta salad with mint and coriander (v, gf)
- Debbie's roasted beetroot and goat's curd (v, gf)
- Fried courgette flowers stuffed with goat's cheese, feta and spinach (v, gf)
- Fattoush (v)
- Ensalada Campera (summer potato salad) from MoVida Rustica (gf)
- Heritage tomato salad (v)
- Larb (South East Asian minced meat or fish salad) (gf)
- Monk's beard with burrata (v, gf)
- Mum's Vietnamese Chicken Salad (gf)
- Purple cauliflower polonaise (v)
- Shaved courgette and Parmesan salad (v, gf)
- Spring potato salad (gf)
- Sylvena Rowe's smoked aubergine salad with hibiscus salt (gf)
- Tabbouli (v)
Vegetables
- Alcachofas con jamón (artichokes with ham from Movida Rustica) (gf)
- Asparagus wrapped in prosciutto with soft-boiled egg (gf)
- Chanterelles a blanc ('white' chanterelle mushrooms) (v)
- Elizabeth David’s Piedmont roast peppers (v, gf)
- Fennel gratin with anchovies and leeks (gf)
- Moroccan-spiced carrots (v, gf)
- Purple sprouting broccoli with burnt anchovy butter (gf)
- Skin on chips with Bloody Mary ketchup and celery salt (v, gf)
Sauces and dressings
Sauces
- Bechamel and veloute (v, gf)
- Dad's "benchmark" aioli (v, gf)
- Diana Henry's Thai sweet chilli sauce (gf)
- Harissa (v, gf)
- Olive tapenade (gf)
- Raita (v, gf)
- Salsa verde (gf)
- Tomato ketchup (original and Bloody Mary style) (v, gf)
- Vicky Brown sauce (v, gf)
Dressings
- Basic French vinaigrette (v, gf)
- Balsamic vinaigrette (v, gf)
Preserves
Pickles, chutneys and relishes
- Loquat chutney (v, gf)
- Pear and ginger chutney (v, gf)
- Pickled onions (v, gf)
- Pickled radishes (v, gf)
- Smoky aubergine and chilli relish (v, gf)
- Tomato relish with ginger, coriander and chilli (v, gf)
Jams and curds
- Pam Corbin’s bramley lemon curd (v, gf)
Sweets & treats
- Anzac biscuits (v)
- Apple crumble and variations (v)
- Apple and greengage crumble (v)
- Arianna Halshaw's Cinnamon Buns (v)
- Claudia Roden's Tarta de Santiago (Almond cake/tart) (v, gf)
- Dad’s best-ever chocolate brownies (v)
- Deb and Wally's ginger spice cake (v)
- Deborah Mele’s rustic apple cake with rosemary syrup (v)
- Edmonds Afghans (v)
- Hot Cross Buns (v)
- Kalliope's vasilopita (Greek New Year cake) (v)
- Raspberry and mascarpone cheesecake
- Rhubarb crumble with vanilla custard (v)
- Stephanie Alexander’s simple banana cake with cream cheese icing (v)
- Sticky Toffee Pudding (v)
- St Lucia's Crown (Saffron bread) (v)