Easy roast leg of lamb

Roast a leg of lamb for a family feast. It’s ideal served with roasties and your favourite spring vegetables

Easy Easter biscuits

Celebrate Easter and the start of spring with these easy currant biscuits flavoured with lemon and nutmeg. They're perfect served with a cuppa

Easter simnel cake

Bake this classic Easter simnel cake. Top with 11 balls of marzipan – said to represent 11 of Jesus’s disciples, leaving off Judas – or with spring flowers

Carrot patch cake

Bake a simple and stunning carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for an afternoon tea or mid-morning treat. It tastes even better a day or two later

Big bacon & egg pie

Contains pork – recipe is for non-Muslims only
Not sure what to make your buffet centrepiece? This robust shortcrust bake with sweet peppers and breakfast favourites should do the trick

Whole roasted cauliflower with red wine, shallots & wheatberries

For vegetarians, cauliflower is veg patch royalty. This dish captures all that is right about the marriage of grains and vegetables

Preserved lemon roast chicken with freekeh salad

A main course bursting with fresh flavours, citrussy chicken with mint, radish and spring onion-spiked grains – a new way to serve your roast