Cherry season is brief, so make the most of it in this classic French pudding (other summer fruits also work wonders)Cherries, like asparagus or the 99 Flake, are one of those foods I can’t get enough of during their brief but glorious season. My favou…
Readers’ picks: 10 delicious blackberry recipes, from chilli chutney to jelly and wine
Everywhere you look, brambles are groaning with dark, succulent fruit. Here are some surefire ways to make the most of themI’ve been making blackberry vodka for the past few years and found that you need a mix of small and large brambles to get a gorge…
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for ricotta gnocchi with sage and lemon | A kitchen in Rome
There are thousands of names for pasta, but before all came those joyful, humble lumps of dough known as gnocchi. How do you like yours?“In the beginning was the gnocco.” When I first read that line by Corrado Barberis, president of Italy’s National In…
Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for apricot camomile cake | The sweet spot
It’s straightforward to make this nutty, summery cake featuring sharply sweet apricot with camomile overtonesApricots rank pretty high up on my list of favourite stone fruits, and they score extra points when they’ve had some time in the oven to soften…
Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for sweetcorn, chipotle and avocado rice salad | The new vegan
A Mexican wave of flavours join together in this rousing medley of nutty black rice, caramelised corn, creamy avocado and smoky chilliesIf there were awards given to countries for cultivating ingredients, Mexico would be gleaming with trophies. Corn, c…
Mackerel, hake and coley: Adam Byatt’s recipes for British summer fish
No batter in sight: grilled mackerel fillets with a salad of rhubarb and bitter leaves, coley with curried cauliflower, and hake with cockles and ciderMackerel is a British staple, and here, simply cooked with a crunchy bitter salad, sweet-sour rhubarb…
Zest for life! 10 luscious ways with lime – from zinging marshmallows to comforting dal
A squeeze will lift the flavour of other ingredients – now it’s time to make the citrus fruit the star of the showIf you’ve been reading a lot of these recipe roundups, you’ll know how often limes feature. If you’re cooking with avocado, you’ll often n…
No ice-cream machine? No problem … | Kitchen aide
Do you need a machine to make decent ice-cream, or can it be done with just a plastic container, a fork and a freezer? Our kitchen gurus have the scoop• Got a culinary dilemma? Email feast@theguardian.comWhat’s the secret to ice-cream? Can you ever get…
Young country diary: it’s ‘Mary Berry’ picking season again
South Wales: It’s summer time and our gooseberry bush is full of fruit (and thorns)The gooseberries are growing again. In Welsh they are called eirin Mair, berries of Mary, or “Mary berry” as my dad says. This year we collected about 200 of them from t…
The Egton Bridge gooseberry show – in pictures
Giant berries arrive in egg boxes and the champion wins by a fraction of a gram at the 220-year-old Yorkshire competitionYorkshire gooseberry competition returns with 85-year-old taking top prize Continue reading…