Best of...
How the British ever developed a reputation for poor food when we conjured up these flavoursome delights is beyond us here at delicious.!
Ah, you have to love English eccentricity. Here's our favourite, erm, unusual food festivals taking place in Britain in 2008.
Keep your fingers on the pulses with these delicious. recipes for beans, peas and lentils.
From tiramisu to torta di riso, panna cotta to panettone, you can taste the love in Italian puds. If you know a place that does better desserts then we'd love to hear about it.
No more the limp side dishes of ye olden days. In these modish times, salad recipes are versatile, inventive and tasty. And if you go easy on the dressing, you lose the fat but not the flavour.
Remember the old joke: "I'm on a seafood diet? I see food and I eat it." Er, hilarious, isn't it. However, there's nothing funny – only yummy – about these superlative shellfish recipes.
Best of... Simon Rimmer's vegetarian dishes
TV chef Simon's unique no-meat dishes are so great that vegetarians will rejoice and carnivores will forget why they ever needed meat.
1. A low-calorie treat
2. One helluva pie
Feta and spinach free-form pie with tomato relish
3. A super-healthy,
low-cal, low fat dish
Italian bean casserole
4. Spuds-u'll-like
Smoked cheese and spud cakes
with minted pea purée
5. Inspirational Spanish
Paella-style dirty rice
6. A Far Eastern favourite
Green Thai curry with greens
7. A low-fat Brit dish
Lancashire hotpots
8. A really special salad
Potato, smoked almond and artichoke salad
9. A taste of the Deep South
Sweet potato gumbo with cornbread
10. A dessert to die for
Vegan sweet pumpkin pie