peach melba recipe A simple combination of vanilla ice cream, fresh peaches and raspberry coulis. It's not sophisticated, but it is delicious. You will probably make more of the coulis than you need, but it will k
quick tomato tart with thyme and red onions recipe This tomato tart is special because you can throw it together very quickly and it needs few ingredients. You can use any old tomato, bar cherry varieties. I always make mine in a frying pan with a met
herb salad with halloumi and chorizo recipe This is at its best with the halloumi and chorizo straight out of the pan, so get everything ready and then cook them both last.for 6 as a starter (or 4 as a main)chilli jam Find recipe her
strawberry and passion fruit sorbet recipe Strawberries and passion fruit are both sweet so here you don't need the usual piles of sugar of the average sorbet or ice-cream. The occasional crunch of the passion fruit seeds are a good addition.F
parmesan lollipops If you want to show off at a party, make these lollipops as canapés, or serve them with almost any soup. They look impressive but are easy to do.makes 20 100g Parmesan cheese20 woody rosemary sticks
perch hill rhubarb cordial recipe This is one of our most often made recipes at Perch Hill, where we serve a home-made cordial (or a selection) at all our courses and open days. We serve rhubarb from March until July, with an
pelargonium and lemon cordial recipe This is my favourite drink served here for lunch in the café for our garden openings and courses. It’s the pelargonium that gives it delicious and unique taste. I love Pelargonium ‘Attar of
party plum tart recipe A firmly set tart like this is one of the easiest puddings to transport for a picnic when you are feeding lots of people, and always delicious in summer when plums are at their best. This tart
tomato tart with poppy seed pastry recipe One of the best summer tarts, with delicious extra nuttiness from the poppy seeds, sharpness from the tomatoes a good contrast to the creamy cheese.For 6-8For the pastry140g plain flour½ teaspoon salt
summer berry jelly A summer pudding with no bread, and light on the jelly, which is made from freshly juiced apples, holding together many punnets of super-healthy berries. This needs to be made the day before serving.
whole strawberry jam This is a runny, French-style jam made with honey not sugar, so it is marginally healthier than a standard jam. It is still high in sugar, though, so this is for a treat on special occasions rather th
worton-style fried peppers recipe This Mediterranean style fried pepper dish from my favourite farmshop café has a good combination of flavours – the fruitiness of the peppers, with a mild tang but almost no heat; the sweetness of the
summer garden tempura recipe If you boil purple French beans, they turn a dark grey-green. By dipping them raw and whole into tempura batter and then shallow-frying them, they stay looking fantastic and taste even better.Mix them
stuffed red horn peppers Sweet red peppers stuffed with cream cheese and pine nuts are delicious served with barbecued meat, or as a starter. We usually start picking these in the greenhouse by the middle of the month – they
smoked haddock and nasturtium fishcakes recipe This looks and tastes marvellous, with the peppery nasturtiums replacing black pepper in the fish/potato mix. Serve them with a really rich tomato sauce (tinned or fresh tomatoes and a slurp of olive
ricotta al forno recipe This is rich and yet fresh - wonderful with bread and a crunchy green salad. Sometimes I make it with olives, sometimes pinenuts. Make it with basil pesto or we love it with wild garlic pesto too (the