Pesto pasta is given a flavoursome makeover with this peppery watercress pesto and juicy prawns. Recipe from www.watercress.co.uk Serves: 2 (with leftover pesto) Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 15 …
Watercress season
Healthier than kale, grown in Hampshire and Dorset in watery gravel beds, it really is a unique crop and its British season runs from May to October. Penny Ede first …
Salad Nicoise with beans and peas
Serves 4 Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 25 minutes You’ll need 200g new potatoes cut in half 4 medium free-range eggs 200g fresh green beans, trimmed 100g fresh peas, …
Breakfast boost
Most of us know that skipping breakfast is considered bad form – breaking your ‘fast’ (not eating for the hours that you sleep) is frowned up on my doctors and …
Beans
Fitting into the legume category, beans are considered to be a food group of their own in Brazil. Recent research has linked bean intake to lower risk of type 2 …
Pepper (spice)
Get cracking! Dried ground pepper has been used since antiquity for both its flavour and as medicine and is the world’s most traded spice. It is one of the most …
Seafood with claws
Crabs, lobster and langoustine are in their prime in summertime. Pincers, grapplers, claws – scary stuff from the beneath the waves, but full of protein, which fills you up with …
Melon soup
View PostSugars, by Lizi Shaw (Lizi’s Granola)
For a diabetic, it can be a minefield assessing the carbohydrate content of your breakfast. So we’ve asked a cereal-maker to tell us how she’s trying to help. Lizi Shaw, …
Melon
Summer is the time of year for making the most of melons as they hit their seasonal stride. The hotter months bring those big round fruits to our tables, and …