Food

Recipes of the month

New recipes each month, using the best of the season's produce, including quick and easy suppers and tasty desserts.

This moist Dorset apple cake, based on a traditional recipe, has a wonderful topping of sliced apples dredged with sugar. Great for a teatime treat.

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This simple vegetarian supper is full of fresh early-summer flavours, including delicious new-season asparagus.

Fish and chips are undoubtedly a favourite British takeaway. But why not make them yourself using haddock or pollack, as an alternative to cod?

Frozen Cherry Yogurt with Meringues

Make a double batch of this easy fruity frozen yogurt and keep half in the freezer for a fabulous standby dessert.

Home Made Mini Burgers in Pitta Pockets

Children will love these colourful mini burgers, which are made with red and yellow peppers for extra flavour and texture.

New-crop Jersey Royal potatoes are roasted with small fresh beetroot and baby carrots, then served with juicy minted lamb chops.

This crisp, oriental-style salad of radishes, sugar snap peas and chicory goes brilliantly with slices of garlicky pork loin steaks.

Celebrate the age-old English tradition of potted seafood, by combining the tender, sweet flesh of Cromer crab with sherry, herbs and lemon juice.

For a really fragrant roast, make a spicy paste with ginger, coriander and lime juice, and slide it under the skin of a free-range chicken.