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The best UK Christmas gifts for mums: 63 thoughtful ideas they’ll love

Forget aprons and baking trays: these tried-and-tested gifts – from a lime squeezer for margaritas to a bare root rose – hit the spot for mothers

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2025

Pickle power: how to make your first ferments

Little more than clean jars, salt water and time are needed to get you on the path to perfect pickles

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025

Preserve, pickle, freeze, ferment: how to capture your garden’s summer harvest

From making jam to fermenting tomatoes, there’s a wealth of easy ways to store the sunshine flavours of your fruit and veg for the darker days to come

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2024

Family memories, dishes from key moments in life – the meals chefs cherish

From grandma’s potted shrimps to spaghetti with a lifelong partner, top names from restaurants and food writing look back on the meals that made them who they are

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2023

The 20 best Sunday lunch and dinner recipes

Debora Robertson’s whole roast sea bass for a special family lunch or Rosie Sykes’s baked mushrooms for a lighter evening snack – recipes that are anything but your average Sunday meal

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2023

Recipe for punched potatoes and a roast chicken by Olia Hercules

Squash potatoes into a flat pancake to give a buttery Sunday lunch of dreams

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2023

Desperate for a BLT? How to make 12 classic tomato recipes – without any tomatoes

In these days of food shortages, you might assume lasagne, pizza and meatballs are off the menu. But with some simple substitutions you can still enjoy many favourite meals

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

‘We will never be the same’: chef Olia Hercules on Ukraine’s year of war

As the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine arrives, author Olia Hercules recalls those first horrifying days, and the pride she feels as she watches her home country’s fight for survival

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2023

Baked apples with ricotta and raisins recipe by Olia Hercules

Bake these apples until the skins burst, the flesh is fluffy and the ricotta is caramelised on top

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2023

Olia Hercules’ recipes for Christmas vegetables

Sprouts that even the haters might love, braised in a miso butter and honey glaze, plus a vegetarian main course of cabbage stuffed with mushrooms, onions and chestnuts

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2022