MasterChef star Courtney Roulston reveals the perfect Christmas dish

Forget seafood, this classic dish should be the centrepiece of your Christmas lunch: MasterChef star Courtney Roulston reveals why one crowd pleaser is ‘the gift that keeps on giving’ By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 22:36 GMT, 23 December 2020 | Updated: 22:38 GMT, 23 December 2020 She competed on Masterchef in 2010 … Read more

Dish up delights for your festive family bubble

Cook, Eat, Repeat by Nigella Lawson (Chatto £26, 342pp) Cook, Eat, Repeat by Nigella Lawson (Chatto £26, 342pp) Cooking, Nigella says, ‘can be a safe space for the frenetic soul’. With essays on topics ranging from rhubarb to a defence of brown food, this quirky book is mostly wonderful (celeriac and anchovy gratin, chocolate peanut … Read more

Nigella’s been mocked for making a meal out of the simplest dish – but she’s not the only one

She’s mashed a tray of fish fingers, put banana skins in a curry and covered her bread dough in a leopard-print shower cap. And viewers of Nigella Lawson’s new cookery show were left scratching their heads again this week when the TV chef spent a toe-curling 71 seconds instructing the nation how to butter a … Read more

Amateur chef trolled after sharing pork tenderloin dish likened to a hospital bedpan

‘Only good for the bin!’: Amateur chef is brutally trolled online after sharing a pork tenderloin dish which was likened to ‘dog turd filled with cat vomit’ and a hospital bedpan Amateur home cook shared their pork tenderloin dish on Rate My Plate group The post quickly drew brutal criticism and was compared to a … Read more

Northerners rage at ‘dictator’ Boris Johnson for using them as a ‘petri dish’ for tough curbs

Boris Johnson (pictured) is set to ignore critics and impose Tier Three restrictions – the highest level of a new alert system – in Covid-hit areas of the north Boris Johnson faced fury from Northerners and a massing Tory revolt today after it emerged he will plunge 10million people in Covid hotspots into even tougher … Read more

Peter Andre’s doctor wife Emily joins Instagram to dish out ‘health, medical and parenting chat’

Her husband and step-children are huge Instagram fans. But Emily Andre has only just taken the plunge, joining the social media site on Wednesday night for the first time. The wife of Peter Andre wrote in her first post that she wanted to share ‘health, medical and parenting chat,’ with her followers, whose numbers soon … Read more

jEFF PRESTRIDGE: Rishi’s next dish is likely to be a little less tasty

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Rishi’s next dish is likely to be a little less tasty… tax hikes are heading our way By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 BST, 5 September 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 5 September 2020 It now seems inevitable that Rishi Sunak’s forthcoming Budget will be more painful on our … Read more

Traces of butter dating back 2,500 years are found on wooden dish at the bottom of a lake 

That’s butterly mad! Traces of butter dating back 2,500 years are found on wooden dish at the bottom of a lake A wooden dish with dairy matter was found at the bottom of the Loch Tay, Perth and Kinross The substance, believed to be butter, dates back 2,500 years to the Iron Age It is thought … Read more

Mum’s simple three-step recipe for ‘Dorito-crumbed chicken’ hailed as the homemade dish of the year

Mum’s three-step recipe for ‘Dorito-crumbed chicken’ is hailed as the ‘homemade dish of the YEAR’ by amateur cooks A mother from Melbourne made crispy chicken coated in Doritos in an air fryer She coated strips of chicken in flour, lightly beaten egg and crushed Doritos Then cooked the meat in an air fryer at 180°C … Read more

MasterChef star goes rogue: ‘They do the same dish every time’

MasterChef star goes rogue and unleashes on the contestants for ‘doing the same dish every time’ – but defends Laura Sharrad for repeatedly making pasta By Jo Scrimshire For Daily Mail Australia Published: 22:50 BST, 5 July 2020 | Updated: 23:25 BST, 5 July 2020 Eliminated MasterChef contestant Chris Badenoch has taken a few parting shots … Read more