Category: Lifestyle

Dialling down makeup doesn’t mean making less impact. Plus, breakout products for smoother skin and curly hair Beauty is obsessed with minimalism right now. Terrific news for those who find multi-step makeup – blending, brushing, baking – laborious. For maximalists, take heart. This doesn’t mean makeup-free, it’s just about dialling things down as per the […]

Aubergine roasted, whipped and dressed in a zippy vinaigrette makes a memorable, meze-style centrepiece Serving ingredients cooked in several ways might be reminiscent of chi-chi noughties menus, but for the eco-aware home cook, it’s an approach that makes good sense. Seasonal veg is cheaper, tastes better and uses shorter, more carbon-friendly supply chains. What’s more, […]

This punchy chopped salad of soaked and torn stale bread, onions and tomatoes dressed in olive oil and vinegar has many variations – but how will you make yours? “There is too much ambiguity in that terrible adjective, ‘true’, that would brand as false any variation, any inventiveness and departure from the rule.” This quote […]

A prolific fig harvest calls for classically delicate recipes The leaves wave in the breeze, like giant’s hands, beckoning. “The figs are ready.” I have spent much of this summer up a ladder, stretching to grab the constantly ripening fruits. Those teasingly out of reach fall days later, splattering the terrace with their sticky red […]

Two dips – a yoghurty Persian number and nutty, pesto-smothered mashed carrots – accompany coffee- and chilli-rubbed chicken koftas in a tactile Middle-Eastern feast If a table could tell a story, there’d be scattered cutlery and plates scraped clean, scrunched-up napkins, glasses half full and a tablecloth stained with equal parts turmeric and impatient hunger. […]

The UK’s pre-eminent fish cook serves up a seasonal taste of the sea with mussels cooked in clotted cream and perry, quick gin-cured salmon and sweetcorn and scallop soup Raw salmon with gin, cucumber and lemon Prep 15 minCook 10-15 minServes 4 Grated zest of 1 lemon, plus all the flesh, separated into individual segments8 […]

A quick sponge layered with blackberry jam, nuts and cream, and served in a little glass – as good for dinner parties as a quiet weeknight treat My mum and I are firmly at odds when it comes to the question of jelly in trifle. Her recipe was honed in the 1970s, so the jelly […]