Culinary

You can use a standard olive oil here; it doesn’t need to be extra virgin. It pairs wonderfully with rosemary, but I have also made this by nestling a few bay leaves in the top of...

A fudgy vegan cake and a herb-flecked chocolate chip loaf will satisfy your sweet tooth and are a doddle to make My insatiable sweet tooth knows almost no bounds, so cake is something I take seriously....

Ashura cereal with yoghurt and fresh fruit (pictured above) Prep 15 min Cook 20 min Serves 4-6 95ml vegetable oil 110g honey 110g dark brown soft sugar 1 tsp table salt 1 tsp ground cinnamon ½ tsp ground mahlab seeds...

The Sourdough Saloon in Yukon territory offers tipples containing a digit – and a British man has promised to donate three frostbitten body parts to the cause. Name: The sourtoe cocktail. Age: 45. Appearance: A tumbler filled with a...

Heavy snowfall from the “beast from the east” caused Britain’s construction industry to grind to a halt last month, according to an industry survey showing the biggest fall in activity since immediately after the Brexit vote. Confirming fears that freezing...

Move over kale pesto, there’s a new kid in town. It is worth making plenty of this great little salad as the leftovers are perfect for taking to work to scoff at your desk – it is...

Iwant pickles most when we don’t have any. It is almost always the same: while making some sort of frittata or savoury pie – probably a potato, leftover greens, egg and cheese combination – it crosses...

Greens occupy an ever-present spot on the bottom shelf of my fridge, making their way into almost every meal I cook. Now the cavolo nero, cabbage and chard that saw me through winter are making way...

With Easter over, our thoughts turn, somewhat more reliably than the weather, to summer – and, for some of us at least, the pressing need to shed some winter insulation. The task is not made any easier by...

It’s an annual row that seems to start earlier and earlier – the great Easter egg debate. Social media becomes awash with companies forced to defend their Easter products from an army of people claiming that they do...