Herbs take centre stage in a summery lemon thyme and leek tart, a Roman-style herb and anchovy salad, an oriental spicy noodle salad and a distinctly grown-up tarragon and olive oil ice-cream to finish

One-pot cooking made easy: tomato rice with kale and chickpeas, pasta with squash and parmesan, Persian-style salmon kebabs and a mustard-and-parmesan chicken bake

Boot up your weekend brunch game with baked butter beans in a rich tomato sauce, ackee scramble, crispy crushed potatoes with a garlicky lemon aïoli, and mixed berry puff-pastry tarts

Four simple dishes for a busy working day: sprout galette, a polenta soup, veg fritters with bangers, and baked chicken

From lamb meatballs to Armenian spice cake, here are four inventive dishes from east London’s celebrated canalside brunch spot

From chickpea and salt cod fritters and spiced grilled cauliflower to the classic piri-piri chicken and pastel de nata, there’s something to suit all tastes here

Four salads to perk up any picnic: sweet potato with corn, feta and red pepper, summer vegetables with tonnato dressing, watermelon with ajo blanco, and Asian slaw with peanut dressing

Try these very different sweet surprises: a chocolate mud pie, a hazelnut and coffee fridge cake, peanut butter cupcakes and Italian-inspired orange and ricotta doughnuts

The Caribbean is a major crossroads of cultures, resulting in delicious clashes of cuisine, such as these tangy takes on corn on the cob, spicy, slow-cooked pork belly and a rum-spiked bread pudding

Featuring the best brioche fruit tart you’ll ever taste, a cherry cake that’s ideal as a mid-morning snack, salted caramel chocolate brownies and a strawberries-and-cream-topped slab of scone cake

A rich, coconutty mussel soup, devilled prawns, fragrant mackerel wrapped in banana leaves, all topped with a good sprinkling of coconut chutney

Asparagus and hollandaise to start, slow-roast duck legs with bacon and onions to follow, with sides of braised peas and lettuce and Jersey royals; and a rice pudding with cherry jam to finish

From a sweetcorn takikomi-gohan to oyakodon, here are four ways with Japanese short-grain rice

Summer is the perfect season to let ingredients sing. Here are four beautiful dressed dishes to whet your appetite

A twist on four classics – a gin sour, an iced tea rum punch, a sherry mixer and a punchy cinnamon cooler

Four easily adaptable dishes from the UK’s queen of thrift, using tinned fish and other store-cupboard ingredients

Easy, store-cupboard spring salad ideas from our archive: tuna, white bean and radish, spicy new potato, herby quinoa with cheese and roast chicken

From ‘macaroon’ porridge to ‘magic’ pizza, four nifty and nutritious dishes for kids that will delight their grown-ups, too

Entertaining is off the menu this Easter, but you can still make a special meal in isolation. Here are four easy courses from the queen of no-frills food

Welcome spring with two savoury treats – leek and stilton galette and smoked trout and broccoli tart – and two sweet ones: rhubarb and blood orange curd pie, and honey, ginger and lemon tart