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How to make honey chicken and sweetcorn flatbreads
Fresh sweetcorn is an annual treat that is at its best; Melanie Johnson shares a recipe to make the most of it.
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Scotch eggs: Tom Parker Bowles on the delights of this 'absolutely magical thing'
The jury is out as to whether the humble Scotch egg is a snack or a ‘substantial meal’. Either way, this headline-stealing, hand-held hero is outrageously delicious, says Tom Parker Bowles.
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How to make an apricot pavlova that makes amazing use of 'the golden jewels of summer'
Pavlova is always good. Now it's even better.
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The strawberry and raspberry fool: Who but a fool could say no?
Tom Parker Bowles on the unbeatable joy of the fool, and his favourite strawberry fool recipe.
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How to make harissa lamb cutlets with garlic and almond runner beans
Homegrown runner beans turn this lovely lamb cutlet dish into something memorable.
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Best beach barbecue recipes — and four golden rules for cooking at the beach
Everything tastes better when it's cooked outdoors, and even more so when it's on the beach. Award-winning food writer Jack Adair Bevan shares his best beach barbecue recipes; photos shot for Country Life on location in Port Gaverne, Cornwall by Benjamin Pryor.
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How to make the ultimate Bloody Mary prawn cocktail
Country Life's kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a sensational recipe which makes the most of the cherry tomatoes now in season.
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How to make redcurrant crumble bars
Melanie Johnson shares a recipe to make the most of redcurrants, a sharp but tasty seasonal fruit.
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Tom Parker Bowles: Gooseberries are 'a fat green blob wearing three-day stubble' — but I love them anyway
The gooseberry might be the least sexy of all fruit, resembling a fat green blob wearing a three-day growth of stubble. Yet it adds a welcome sharpness to jellies, jams and a simple fool, says Tom Parker Bowles.
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How to make strawberry and lemon cake, topped with chamomile whipped cream
Melanie Johnson is here with what is ostensibly a cake, but is in fact a truck to drive straight through your early-summer diet plans.
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How to make gnocchi with peas, spinach, asparagus and mozzarella
If ever a vegetable's diminutive size belied the flavour it delivers, it's the pea. Melanie Johnson shares a recipe to make the most of the fresh crop.
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How to make a 'carrot cake' swiss roll
Melanie Johnson shares her recipe for an unusual — but delicious — take on carrot cake.
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How to make tarragon chicken with garlic-roasted new potatoes
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful creamy tarragon chicken recipe.
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How to make crusted salmon with watercress and wasabi
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful way to cook salmon that makes the most of the new season's watercress.
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Perfect Coronation street party recipes, from Mary Berry's ultimate scones to Tom Parker Bowles' irresistible coronation chicken
Emma Hughes collects the best Platinum Jubilee street party recipes from some of Britain's best-loved chefs and food writers.
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Tom Parker Bowles: The langoustine dish that 'was one of my grandmother’s favourites', as The King told me. And it's one of his, too
Scampi evokes easy pasta dishes or deep-fried pub grub, but call them langoustines and you have a dish fit for a king — or, indeed, The King, says Tom Parker Bowles.
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How to make radish and radicchio risotto
Melanie Johnson shares a recipe that brings zing and colour to a classic risotto.
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How to make creamy chicken and spring-onion cobbler
Spring onions are for more than merely salads, says our Kitchen Garden Cook Melanie Johnson.
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A superb salmon dish to bring out the best in the new crop of Jersey Royals
Melanie Johnson shares a salmon recipe ideal to go with 'perfect' Jersey Royals.
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How to use oranges to brighten up your February food, by Tom Parker Bowles
It may look a little dull compared with other fruit, but the zingy orange was once the preserve of kings and nothing beats its sweet and sharp magic when it comes to brightening up a dreary winter day, says Tom Parker Bowles.
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How to make mustard and Parmesan chicken with parsnip rösti
Kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a winter warming recipe — a chicken dish which really zings.
