Appetizers

We served little cucumber cup canapés at our wedding and I have had a soft spot for anything scoopable ever since. This dip is the one I make most often,

There is already a tomato and chilli mussels recipe on here, so this one has to earn its place on the site. It does that with saffron and fennel, which push

I adore calamari and will happily make a whole meal of it, which is roughly what happens every time I cook this. Salt and pepper squid is a takeaway

I adore a good pâté and will order one anywhere I see it, which is presumably why I keep inventing new ones at home. This is the cheapest of the lot by a

Parsnip and apple is one of those combinations that sounds slightly odd until you actually try it. The parsnips roast down sweet and nutty, the apple brings

A pot of mussels is the cheapest bit of theatre you can put on a table. They cost very little, they cook in about five minutes, and everybody gets stuck in

Scallops feel like a restaurant thing, which is exactly why they are worth cooking at home every now and again. They take about four minutes in a hot pan

This is the most impressive thing you can make with almost no actual cooking involved. A side of salmon gets buried in salt, sugar, grated beetroot and

I was a fussy eater as a child, so anything in breadcrumbs had a decent chance of getting past me. These plaice goujons are the grown up version of that

Matt puts avocado into more or less everything he makes, and I have never really understood the appeal of them. I'll happily admit I was wrong about these