How your weekend lunch can make weeknight cooking both easy and delicious• Got a culinary dilemma? Email feast@theguardian.comWhat are the best Sunday lunch leftovers for weekday meals?Alison, GuildfordAh, a centrepiece-worthy Sunday lunch that can be …
Nigel Slater’s roast chicken pilau recipe
Lefover roast chicken transformed into a spicy, herby, curried treat with riceWash 200g of white basmati rice in a bowl of warm water, drain, then transfer to a medium-sized saucepan. Add 2 bay leaves, 4 cloves, 8 peppercorns and half a stick of cinnam…
Turkish chicken two ways, plus cannelloni my way: Big Has’ one-pan (ish) recipes
Three dishes from the chef and YouTuber that are high on flavour and low on hassle: chicken and potato kebab, poached chicken and pasta, and cannelloni. Turkish spicy ketchup optionalOne-pot (or one-pot-ish) cooking is one of the oldest and simplest co…
Perfect roast chicken, apricot tarts, cheesecake: recipes from Nigel Slater’s new book
‘Cooking is about quiet moments of joy,’ says the Observer’s food writer in this exclusive extract from A Cook’s BookYou could measure my life in recipes. Each one a letter to a friend, a story of something I have made for dinner, the tale of how it ca…
Could gene editing chickens prevent future pandemics?
Rearing virus-resistant birds could benefit humans too, say scientists, and Covid may have made us more open to the controversial technologyDiseases such as avian flu trigger the culling of millions of birds each year. But that need not be the case for…
Guyanese fried chicken, and saltfish with coconut dumplings: Keshia Sakarah’s Caribbean recipes for summer
A rich, cultural mix on your plate: Chinese-Guyanese fried chicken, fried rice with island spice and a deliciously rich coconut saltfish with breadfruit and coconut dumplingsThe Caribbean is a cultural microcosm, and home to a beautifully nuanced world…