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How to make a feast without packaged foodA taste of home: A project to reduce waste in the kitchen led to this deliciously savoury porridge recipe that makes use of whole ingredients, says eco-chef Tom Hunt
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The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ leek recipesThe humble leek is one of the home cook’s best friends, so make the most of it
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Cocktail of the week: classic pisco sour – recipeIt’s never too late to develop a taste for Peru’s national cocktail
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Food in books: squashed fly biscuits from Murder Most UnladylikeAfter finishing Robin Stevens’s much loved children’s mystery, Kate Young makes some of the biscuits – so named for the raisins in them – eaten in the book
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Yotam OttolenghiYotam OttolenghiYotam Ottolenghi’s dumpling recipesFew foods are as comforting as a proper dumpling
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The 20 best French recipes: part 3Classic dishes from top chefs, including boeuf bourguignon and filet au poivre, selected by Observer Food Monthly
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The 20 best French recipes: part 1Top chefs’ classic dishes from coq au vin to salade nicoise, selected by Observer Food Monthly
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Nigel Slater’s oyster sauce chicken with citrus mint salad recipeOn a chilly night nothing warms you up like blisteringly hot Chinese-style chicken, served with a cooling side of herby salad, says Nigel Slater
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Rachel Roddy’s pan-roasted pork chops with sage, juniper and polentaRachel Roddy recipes: Revered by the ancient Romans for its cure-all properties and as a sign of prosperity, the silvery leaves of sage add a distinctive pungency to white beans, pumpkin and, here, pork and polenta, adapted from a Marcella Hazan recipe
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Three veg-based cake recipes to help you eat your 10-a-dayBaking with 10 veg a day: Vegetable cakes are a sweet and stealthy way to raise your veg quotient. Squashes lend moisture to a delicate crumb, while root veg offer a toothsome structure to sponge
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The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for guinea fowl pie, plus yoghurt cakeWant to perk up an everyday meal? Try using something old and something new
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Anna Jones’s three-meal plan to get your 10-a-dayAnna Jones recipes: Fruit and vegetables are easily incorporated into breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack, making your recommended 10-a-day a doddle
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30-a-day habit: the tastier, Asian approach to mealtimes10 veg a day An Asian approach to variety at mealtimes celebrates flavourful veg in great variety of pickles, small plates and dips. Suddenly 10-veg-a-day doesn’t look so hard ...
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The 20 best French recipes: part 4Classic desserts including Raymond Blanc’s lemon tart and Richard Bertinet’s tarte tatin, selected by Observer Food Monthly
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Claire Ptak’s quick recipe for ice-cream sundaesQuick desserts: This week, we’re giving everyday vanilla ice-cream a makeover. Behold it transformed into a sundae with blood oranges and caramel, or – combined with another sweet staple, digestive biscuits – into the sandwich of dreams
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Ruby Tandoh’s recipe for chocolate orange marble cakeA taste of home: The Tandoh family lunch was rounded off by shop-bought desserts – cherry bakewells, buttery madeira or soft chocolate marble cake, here given a zesty lift with added orange
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The 20 best French recipes: part 2Classic dishes including Simon Hopkinson’s quiche lorraine and Claudia Roden’s bouillabaisse
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Thomasina Miers: the ultimate roast chicken and six other easy recipesThe chef and former MasterChef winner is happiest cooking at home. In an exclusive extract from her new book, she shares her favourite starters and main courses
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The weekend cook: Ken Yamada’s recipes for Japanese salads and side dishesThree easy staples of the Japanese table, from Tonkotsu’s executive chef
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Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for cooking with capersCapers pack a flavour punch way above their weight, so use them sparingly
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Yotam Ottolenghi’s winter soup recipesA warming, comforting soup ticks all the boxes for January eating
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Thomasina Miers’ festive starters and party food – recipesWhen it comes to Christmas cooking, stick to food that will excite people without making you frazzled
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The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for warming winter vegetable soupsA proper thick vegetable soup is just the thing to see you through the exhausting run-up to Christmas
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Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for celeriacCeleriac is one of the most versatile of all our winter veg, so get grating, roasting or mashing it now
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Nigel Slater’s breakfast chocolate recipesSunday is the perfect day for a lazy and indulgent breakfast – and that, says Nigel, means chocolate
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SymmetryBreakfast recipes: five hits from the Instagram favouriteA celebration of love and breakfast from Michael Zee’s book Cook Love Share plus five recipes from around the world
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Cocktail of the week: Enrique The Fifth absinthe recipeCelebrate National Absinthe Day with this punchy number that makes full use of the green fairy’s magical powers
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A recipe for handmade pork pieMeet the producer: Specialist pork pie-maker Sarah Pettegree says a real pork pie is a far cry from the factory pie of today. Made with fresh meat and hand-filled, they’re an utterly different animal
Four infinitely adaptable recipes for leftover food