‘A good doughnut should leave you with stains on your shirt and sticky fingers’

‘We love their crazy colours… it’s like our own private Yayoi Kusama exhibition’

‘Give this pie centre stage as a main course on a chilly night’

‘The vegetarian gauntlet had been thrown down; the vegetarian gauntlet had been picked up’

‘The taste and aroma of meat cooked on a spit will help you snatch a final piece of summer’

‘Kohlrabies look a bit like aliens — but these are aliens worth knowing’

This is our version of ‘votapiatto’ — sweet, meltingly soft squid in a crisp golden shell

A Balkan dish with lots of greens, cheese and herbs, cut through with zingy buttermilk

‘One of the great threats to game is that not enough people know how to cook it’

‘The trees carry a flavour bomb in their leaves, with the most exciting fragrance’

‘There are only two main ingredients here but the dish is an explosion of texture and taste’

‘The juicy plum pieces baked inside and the pomegranate seeds on top are a sweet-and-sour surprise’

‘I macerate the chicken in a mix of spices and let it sizzle appetisingly on the grill’

‘This is sweet and savoury, tangy, slightly nutty and never ever boring’

‘The peaches bake beautifully in the wood oven, juice melding with cheese, hot and salty like the summer evening’

‘The simplest of dinners, perfect for tomato season when it’s almost too hot to eat anything’

The dish is somewhere between borscht from eastern Europe and the Middle East’s cold soups

‘An adaptation of a curious Ligurian dish’

‘A trip to Mexico City opened us up to corn’s infinite possibilities’

‘If sloth is the mother of invention, then this dish was devised by the laziest of cooks’

‘This no-churn ice cream is both rich and sweet, and fresh and zingy’

‘There are few things more inspiring than having a big, live crab in your kitchen’

‘The perfect summer fare in a wrap’