#lunch

To Spain for Lunch: Pazo de Señorans at El Celler de Can Roca

Clockwise from top left: Starfish made of seafood; Mackerel with fermented ganxet beans; White asparagus with mullet bottarga, vegetable...

Return of the Bollinger Lunch: James Bond and vintage Champagne surprises

The Bollinger Lunch was, as you can imagine, a rather nice fixture in the calendar until it was dropped a couple of years ago. Searching...

Chestnuts: Chestnut Soup

This is archetypal winter food – thick and warming. It’s filling enough for a simple mid-week lunch and delicious enough for a dinner...

Tomatoes: Mediterranean Tomato and Olive Tarts

These are basically pizzas with a polenta pastry crust. The advantage, apart from the fact that the base is deliciously crunchy and...

Tomatoes: Baked Sea Bream with Tarragon and Tomatoes

There’s nothing to this. The tomatoes burst as they cook, creating a sauce while you enjoy your aperitif. Bream with tarragon is magical,...

Tomatoes: Tomato and Ricotta Sformata

This is a breeze to make and looks smart – a pale yellow set-custard studded with cherry tomatoes, although in the picture above I used a...

Herbs: Roast Chicken with Thyme and Cream Cheese

Herbs and cream cheese slotted in under the skin along the breasts not only flavour the bird but also keep the flesh beautifully moist –...

Herbs: Dill and Orange-Stuffed Whole Roast Fish

This is a simple, zingy stuffing for whole fish such as sea bass, bream, red mullet, mackerel or trout or whatever is in season and...

Herbs: Rocket, Basil, Mint and Parsley Soup

Rosemary is perfect with lamb, sage is a triumph with pork, mint brings out the flavour of peas and tarragon and chicken were made for...

Boozy Food with Spirits: Tuna Ceviche with Vodka and Lime

Far be it from me to suggest that anyone should find cooking with wine in Britain off-puttingly expensive, but I do concede that, thanks...

Cheap Entertaining: Pork Chops with Mustard & Honey

Pork is cheap, but chops are often so lean (obsessively so in supermarkets) they need remedial treatment to stop them being dry. The...

Cheap Entertaining: Milk-Braised Lamb with Fennel

If the sound of meat and milk sounds odd, remember that pork braised in milk has a impeccable pedigree from both Venice and southwest...

Cheap Entertaining: Lazy Baked Chicken with Soy and Ginger

Another from my Sunday Times recipe series, again very relevant right now - November and the run-up to Christmas are definitely a time...