The classic Italian bread-and-tomato salad gets a step-by-step guide to perfectionEvery bread-eating culture around the world has as many recipes for using up stale loaves as for bread itself: pain perdu, fattoush, roti curry … Panzanella is one of Ita…
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…
How to make cherry clafoutis – recipe | Felicity Cloake’s masterclass
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…
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…
How to eat the whole courgette – recipe | Waste not
Courgette flowers are an overlooked delicacy that are never better than when turned into fritters – ideal summer food with a cold glass of wineCourgettes are an abundant summer vegetable that are very easy to grow (if you’re short on space, you can eve…
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…
How to make apricot tart – recipe | Felicity Cloake’s masterclass
Apricots seem almost to have been created to be baked into cakes such as this summery tart, where they reveal their jammy sweetness to full effectApricots are one of those fruits that, in Britain at least, promise so much, yet often deliver minor disap…
Thomasina Miers’ recipe for cinnamon semifreddo with chocolate drizzle and raspberries | The simple fix
The famous Italian frozen mousse gets the Mexican treatment, with tequila-macerated raspberries and a poncho of sultry dark chocolateMaking ice-cream brings me pleasure like little else. There is something magical about transforming fruit puree, some m…