Jane Baxter
Best budget recipes with store cupboard ingredientsEight of our favourite cooks, including Rosie Sykes, Jane Baxter and Anissa Helou, show you how to make great-value meals - without taking a trip to the shopsLemon and roast garlic pearl barleyMary-Ellen McTague, chef-patron, ...
- How to make your own jelly | Cookery club
Our new series on basic cooking skills opens with how to make jelly - from scratchServing jelly used to be a form of boasting. It was so incredibly difficult to do. You had to use ...
- Kitchen timesaving tips | Back to basics
Chefs often have an impressive repertoire of corner-cutting tricks under their caps. You'll wonder why you hadn't thought of these yourself. Try them on this (not quite) cottage pie recipe ......and don't forget to add ...
- How to cook with tinned food | Back to basics
Tinned foods often sit forgotten in the cupboard. But if your usual storecupboard supplies won't stretch to a meal, the tin can. Try our 10 tips for tins - and this sardine pasta recipe - ...
- Cook Up a Spring Chicken Feast With the Trimmings | Feasting
Our culinary power duo restaurateur Dimbleby and chef Baxter return with this new column that celebrates cooking for groups and gatherings without fuss. To kick off: a mean chicken gratin with seasonal green ...
- The easy way to roast lamb | Back to Basics
Preparing a roast dinner is what you've told us makes most of you most nervous. But it needn't be a nightmare of multitasking if you follow these simple steps - starting with this delicious, seasonal ...
- Make Your Own Cafe Brulot
Cafe brulot is a citrus and booze-infused coffee that will transport you to the jazz bars of New Orleans.I was 18 when I first went to New Orleans. It was too young. My friend Ed ...
- Make Your Own Classic Champagne Cocktail
Champagne socialite: take risks with your recipe and deliver with bravado to make your cocktails a hitWhen I was about 13, my dad invented a cocktail that he called the "timmy noggy" (from a boating ...
- Make Your Own Aperol Spritz
Introducing the Aperol spritz, the feel-good hit of the summer.When we planned this recipe and took the photo, I was hoping to play a kind of John the Baptist of cocktails. "It's coming! It's going ...
- Make Your Own Melon and Ginger Lassi
The peppery payload of this surprising melon lassi really hits the spot.The smoothie is often one of life's great unfulfilled promises. We delight at the thought of the sun's sweet bounty, freshly juiced, ice-cold in ...
