A Portuguese risotto is a cross between a paella and a risotto, with sharp olives and preserved lemons giving

This month in the appetite kitchen, we have mostly been baking with (and drinking) gin. The results are sweet!

Chef Graham Sharp of Longsands Fish Kitchen, Tynemouth, works within walking distance of North Shields Fish Qu

Here’s another recipe from George Payne Butchers in Brunton Park, Gosforth. This 40 minute supper or light l

Super-food Buddha bowl Author: www.makemoreofsalad.com Serves: 2 Ingredients 240g tin chickpeas, drained 120g

Marinated oven-baked chicken with roasted shallots and peppers Author: www.ukshallot.com Serves: 4 Ingredients

The ultimate power breakfast hot smoked salmon & watercress frittata Author: www.watercress.co.uk Ingredie

Toasted garlic hummus with radishes and pitta bread Author: www.loveradish.co.uk Serves: 4 Ingredients 6 clove

Mackerel with tomato sals on toast Author: www.ukshallot.com Serves: 4 Ingredients 6 shallots, peeled and slic

Start the day right with this colourful breakfast of blueberry and beetroot porridge, packed full of antioxida

Strawberry oven-baked risotto with buttermilk Author: www.berryworld.com Serves: 4 Ingredients unsalted butter

Strawberry & chocolate ganache roulade Author: www.vivastrawberries.com Serves: 8-10 Ingredients 150g stra

Berry hot pots Author: www.berryworld.com Serves: 4.6 Ingredients 300g strawberries, quartered 300g blueberrie

Piri-Piri chicken burger Author: www.lovethecrunch.com Serves: 2 Ingredients 2 chicken breasts, skinless 1 tbs

Veggie sausage and bean stew Serves: 4 Ingredients 1tbsp vegetable oil 1 pack Quorn meat-free sausages, sliced

Spring onion rarebit Author: www.lovethecrunch.com Serves: 2 Ingredients 120g Godminster cheddar, grated 1tsp

Slow-cooked brisket of beef with beer Serves: 4-6 Ingredients 1.5kg beef brisket (ask for the ‘nug end’ fr

Pasta vongole Author: www.ukshallot.com Serves: 4 Ingredients 800g fresh clams (discard any open ones) 12 whol

Shallot soup with a goat’s cheese crouton Author: www.ukshallot.com Serves: 4 Ingredients 500g shallots 30g

Crispy shallot and basil fritters Serves: 30 balls / 6 portions Ingredients For the honey shallot relish 1 tbs

Spring onion & celery loaded potato skins Author: www.lovethecrunch.com Serves: 4 as a starter / 2 as a ma

Home-cured salmon Author: Faye Dodwell Serves: 6 as a starter Ingredients For the salmon 500g salmon, skinless

Buttermilk pudding with rhubarb compote Author: Simon Hicks, The Lord Crewe Arms Serves: 4 Ingredients For the

  Baked beets and shallots with almond milk bread sauce Author: Simon Hicks, The Lord Crewe Arms Ingredie

We get the best chicken ever from an organic farm in Northumberland. The chickens are a bit too big for us to

Onion and cider soup Author: Simon Hicks, The Lord Crewe Arms Ingredients 150g butter 1kg onions, peeled, halv

A faggot is a great way to use up odds and ends of meat. When you're using game, just be sure there’s en

Anna Hedworth, AKA The Grazer, has gone a little bit mad scientist this month – and the results taste fantas

Cheese, celery and walnut scones with parsley butter Author: www.lovethecrunch.com Serves: 15 Ingredients 225g

Smoked haddock and mussel chowder Author: Graham Sharp Ingredients 1kg fresh mussels 100ml white wine 50g unsa

Easter falls early this year, so with this in mind Newcastle butcher George Payne is serving up a twist on the

Easy patatas bravas Author: www.ukshallot.com Serves: 4 Ingredients 20 shallots, peeled 750g new potatoes, hal

  Beetroot, raisin & stem ginger pudding Serves: 6 Ingredients 3tbsp golden syrup 100g vegetable suet

White chocolate and cranberry truffles Author: www.berryworld.com Serves: 20 Ingredients 150g fresh cranberrie

Cheesecake with cranberry glaze Author: www.berryworld.com Serves: 8-10 Ingredients For the base: 250g crushed

Cranberry meringue roulade with Cointreau orange cream Author: www.berryworld.com Serves: 8 Ingredients For th