5 h. ago Why Niklas Ekstedt puts mushrooms in dessert – and why it works

A cep soufflé might not sound like a natural fit for pudding, but the Swedish chef’s delicate, earthy take balances rich umami with sweet berries and milk ice cream

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5 h. ago Niklas Ekstedt’s guide to grilling asparagus – and getting that fire

The Swedish chef is known for cooking with open flames, but his grilled asparagus with leek purée, peas and St George’s mushrooms works just as well at home

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5 h. ago Why Niklas Ekstedt’s lamb saddle is the perfect dinner party centrepiece

With fire-seared lamb, apple-stuffed cabbage, and crispy fried nettles, this bold yet elegant dish from the Swedish chef is made to impress

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5 h. ago How Swedish chef Niklas Ekstedt brought fire back to fine dining

The Swedish chef is reviving ancient techniques, ditching modern kitchens and embracing the raw power of open flames. At his London restaurant, that means flambadou-fired oysters, juniper-smoked beef and a history lesson in every bite, writes Lauren Taylor

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2 d. ago Black pudding in the hole and buttery chicken curry – Gill Meller’s recipes for next level traybakes

Dishes that are easy, all in one and soon to be your new favourite midweek mealsI love this combination, but feel free to switch up the black pudding for some nice herby pork sausages, or a decent handful of firm chestnut mushrooms, if you’d like to keep it all about the veg. Once you’ve added the batter, don’t be tempted to open the oven door for at least 20 minutes, as this will help things rise as they should. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 'Asos £63 teddy coat kept me warm in the freezing Scottish weather and reeled me in compliments'

Asos' mushroom brown 'teddy' coat is the perfect mix of stylish and cosy, says our head of fashion

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4 d. ago Best mushroom coffee brands reviewed and why everyone’s drinking it

Goodbye turmeric latte! There’s a new healthy hot drink in town

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5 d. ago The Pacific diving paradise of Palau wants travelers to explore its cultural depths, too

Palau, a tiny island nation in Micronesia, is famous for its mushroom-shaped Rock Islands and spectacular diving

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5 d. ago Are mushrooms REALLY the new wonder drug? Read our ultimate guide to the 'shroom boom'

It's been dubbed the 'shroom boom' - the huge increase in demand for products containing 'medicinal' mushrooms...

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6 d. ago I've found the secret to hosting the perfect dinner party in my 50s... giving this very misunderstood drug to my guests. It's taking over my middle

This weekend I am giving a dinner party that will have a little something extra - a sprinkling of ingredients with exotic names like 'liberty cap'

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7 d. ago An alpine winter feast: cheese, wine and a side dish of snowshoeing in France

A medieval Haute-Savoie village makes a great base for a gourmet break, with delicious comfort food and local wines. And the snowshoeing and skiing aren’t bad either, if you can drag yourself away from the tableThe unmistakable whiff of cow – pungent, but not unpleasant – hit me as soon as I arrived at Ferme Dunoyer above the Haute-Savoie village of Samoëns. Rather than put me off, the scent heightened my appetite for the cheese blowout that was to come.Sat at a wooden communal table inside the pine-walled restaurant run by the farm’s owner, Blandine Dunoyer, I waited for the bonanza of mountain comfort food: fondue savoyarde, tartiflette, raclette, then diots (smoked pork sausages) with polenta. Somehow, I found room for potée savoyarde, a rib-sticking dish of slow-cooked pork shoulder, cabbage and potatoes, then a round of top-notch alpine cheese, reblochon and tomme de savoie, before a creamy blueberry dessert. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Easy to make sweet dessert ideal for people who want to live longer

A long-life expert has researched what certain foods people around the world who live long lives eat regularly - including fruits and seeds

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7 d. ago Best Lion’s Mane supplements to supercharge your brain and body

Perhaps the most magic of mushrooms

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8 d. ago The night I took an enormous amount of drugs with a group of divorced women I'd known for less than 48 hours... and how it changed my life for ever

Last spring, I found myself in the surreal position of taking enormous doses of drugs with a group of women I'd known for less than 48 hours.

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8 d. ago Part of cooked breakfast is 'superfood' and it's not egg or mushroom

People think a cooked breakfast is high in fat and unhealthy but a food expert says one part is packed with nutrients

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9 d. ago Rachel Roddy’s recipe for hazelnut and mushroom ragu with pasta | A kitchen in Rome

Its origins may be a mystery, but what is certain is that this luxuriant alternative to meat ragu is totally delicious“Antica e desueta [archaic and forgotten] is a beguiling introduction to a recipe,” I said to my friend, the cook and writer Stefano Arturi, when we talked on the phone the other week. He laughed, noting that those words in relation to recipes made him both curious and, because of their foggy closeness to mythologising, suspicious.It was his recipe for hazelnut ragu that started it all, sending us down more or less the same paths in books and online, where we met more of the same thing: fabulously contradictory stories in which ragu made from hazelnuts was an ancient Piedmontese dish of great beauty born out of economy and hardship, and also “forgotten”, which justifies the lack of any evidence as to where it actually came from. Yet also, a breezy, contemporary dish that, like so many modern dishes, was scorned by those faithful to more traditional (ancient, authenti...

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