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How to make an easy apple-and-cinnamon tray bake
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson uses the season's crop of apples to superbly tasty effect.
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A foolproof recipe to make an easy apple and almond cake
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares her recipe for an apple cake that's as easy as it is scrumptious.
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How to make pear, rosemary and sea-salt focaccia
Melanie Johnson's recipe makes the most of the season's fresh, juicy pears alongside a delicious bread recipe.
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How to make a fig and goat’s-cheese galette — and a fig creme brûlée for pudding
With figs in season, Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful galette recipe that really lets them be the star.
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Red Mullet: The beauties of the sea, and the one intractable rule for those looking to cook them
Whether deep fried, grilled or poached in acqua pazza, there’s nothing like the subtle, gently rich flavour of red mullet. But always cook it on the bone, warns Tom Parker Bowles, as filleting a fish this fine is plain rude.
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How to make plum upside-down cake with cardamom, vanilla and pistachios
Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful late summer recipe which makes the most of the plum harvest.
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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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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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How to eat seasonally in July, by Tom Parker Bowles
The chef and food writer Tom Parker Bowles on the culinary highlights of July, from artichoke to watercress — plus a recipe which will persuade you that broad beans aren't all bad.
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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.
