Perfect asparagus recipe
Mark Price reveals one of the most delicious ways to make the most of the in-season British asparagus
Food and Drink
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Here at Country Life we love to cook and we love to eat. Seasonality is important, whether you’re growing your own or visiting the farmers’ market for your ingredients – but we love to cook seasonally. Whether it’s our brilliant collection of elderflower recipes in the summertime, our ultimate sloe gin recipe in autumn or gorgeous roast goose recipes in the winter, we have collected the best seasonal recipes by ingredient on dedicated pages
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Perfect lamb chops for two
A yummy way to cook spring lamb.
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Perfect asparagus recipes
Mark Hix shares his best asparagus recipes
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Perfect sea trout
Mark Price from Waitrose explains how to get the best out of cooking sea trout
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Perfect warm potato and chicken salad
Perfect warm potato and chicken salad
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Perfect recipe for morels
Serve morels – mushrooms that appear in spring – with a cream sauce or fried bread
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British cheeses
The best cheeses are British says Mark Hix, including Stilton and Stinking Bishop
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Recipe: wood pigeon
Pigeon should be eaten rare so that you can enjoy the fullest possible flavour
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How to service your Aga
Melanie Cable-Alexandra investigates how to look after your Aga
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Cooking with salt
Mark Hix shares his favourite recipes with salt and selects the best salt to use
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Recipe: perfect rhubarb crumble
Mark Price from Waitrose reccomends some of the best ways to cook with rhubarb.
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Britain's best steak
Country Life conducted a British beef tasting at the restaurant of Mark Hix and found British beef to be varied, tasty, local and easy to get from your butcher.
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Best ways to eat oysters
Mark Price sings the praises of the sweeter native oyster
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Top ten country restaurants
Elizabeth Carter picks 10 of the best country restaurant
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The perfect venison burger
Cooking venison burgers
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Perfect cauliflower cheese
Cauliflower cheese is a perfect winter warmer
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Recipe for gamekeeper’s pie
Mark Hix’s recipe for a gamey twist on the traditional shepherd’s pie
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Recipe for haunch of venison
Most of us think that long marinating and slow cooking will make venison haunch melting and tasty but Mark Hix recommends a different approach.
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Recipes for slow-cooked meats
You don't have to buy the finest cuts to get good flavour, says Mark Hix. Some not-so-common ones benefit from old-fashioned slow cooking
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Interview: Neal's Yard Dairy
Neal's Yard Dairy will be 30 next year, a milestone in Randolph Hodgson's crusade for British cheese
