Every year, Rick Stein and his sons Ed, Jack and Charlie pack up their fishing gear and head off for a boys’ weekend. With such busy lives working for the Steins’ food businesses, it’s a special time when they can all be together – father and sons, enjoying each other’s company, reforging their connections over…

Chicken Pot Pie with Puff Pastry (Bites!) – It’s easily one of the best ways to make pot pie! You get a creamy, richly flavored chicken and vegetable base thats topped with bite size pieces of golden brown, super flakey, buttery puff pastry. It’s the ultimate cozy comfort food. My Favorite Way to Make Puff…

When Yvonne Cobb first met Camilla Arnold three years ago, they instantly bonded over their shared love of cooking. Yvonne, 48, who is profoundly deaf, is used to making connections with people in the deaf community through her cooking lessons and workshops, but discovered a special connection with Camilla, 34, who is also deaf.The pair…

After meeting at a barbecue for the first time in person in June 2020, Amrita Lal, 31, and Kym McAdam, 34, instantly bonded. After months spent in lockdown, New Zealand expat Amrita was thrilled to spot a home comfort on the table: lamington cake. Fellow expat Kym, from Australia, had baked it using an old…

Crammed inside a pub, Samantha Evans and Shauna Guinn served their first barbecue feast one cold night in 2012. Their temporary South Wales pub kitchen takeover, serving mouth-watering recipes – curated on an epic 2011 road trip through the Deep South – was to be the first of many.“Before cooking together, we’d talked a lot…

In August 2020, Emily Wood returned from holiday to find a devastating letter on her doorstep – she’d been made redundant. Suddenly, things felt bleak.“It was my first job in seven years after being a stay-at-home mum to Hugo, now eight, and Martha, six. To lose it felt heartbreaking,” she says.What followed was a perfect…

After a very difficult few years, baking brought some much-needed light back into Karenza Mason’s life.Her problems began in the early part of 2020. “Everything in my life had been turned upside down after largely losing my sight. I’d gone from being a married businesswoman with a thriving hairdressing career, hours filled with my children…

Did you know 12th December marks National Gingerbread House Day? We’ll take any excuse to join in and get festive, so what better time to build your own gingerbread house. This fun tradition doesn’t have to be an all-day labour of love though. We’ve tested some of the easiest gingerbread house kits you can buy…

We are well and truly into the winter season and for us that means one thing – comfort food. Whether it’s a cheeky mince pie in the evening or a handful of chocolates to get you through the afternoon, our normal food routines tend to go out the window.For many of us this time of…

Do you want to master mince pies? Or perfect your pastry? Look no further as we have top tips from our expert team on how to make your best mince pie.Keep it shortFor beautifully crumbly pastry, make sure you don’t overwork the dough. This will ensure a lovely, short texture. If you’re using water to…