If an extra person turns up unexpectedly, just add another can of drained beans! A hearty family stew, this is full of flavour and perfect for feeding a crowd. If an extra person turns up unexpectedly, just add another can of drained beans! Serves 6 Prepare ahead Can be made …...Read More

We buy puff pastry rather than making it, which is a cheat but quicker! A pithivier is a round pie, usually made by baking two discs of puff pastry with a filling enclosed between them. The pie should be slightly domed and is traditionally decorated with spiral lines drawn from …...Read More

Perfect dish to serve as a starter, light lunch or as part of a summer buffet Quick to prepare, this is a perfect dish to serve as a starter, light lunch or as part of a summer buffet. Choose fat, deep portabella mushrooms rather than thin ones, as the fat …...Read More

When her husband suffered a life-threatening infection, Shann Nix Jones sat at her farmhouse table to come up with a remedy that saw him cured within two weeks. Then word got around – and the orders kept flooding in, as she tells Natasha Poliszczuk As eureka moments go, Shann Nix …...Read More

NETFLIX & STARZPLAY The Duchess Six-episode sitcom written by and starring Canadian stand-up Katherine Ryan. Katherine is a ceramicist (her brand is called ‘Kiln ’em Softly’) and single mum who can’t stand the wastrel father of her daughter but wants to get pregnant by him again. It’s er… complicated. How …...Read More

Beatles City Fan podcasts can be a bit embarrassing but this show about The Beatles made by the Liverpool Echo newspaper is a joy. Fan podcasts can be a bit embarrassing but this show about The Beatles made by the Liverpool Echo newspaper is a joy Peppy co-hosts Laura and …...Read More

Van Morrison Virgin Money Unity Arena Newcastle Racecourse Rating: When we think of a pop concert, we probably picture a packed club, a heaving moshpit or a mud-strewn festival. But pop is a broad church and every summer there are also genteel gatherings of older music-lovers, from Kenwood House to …...Read More

Born To Be Mild Rob Temple Sphere £14.99 Rating: Until the age of 30, Rob Temple was a successful journalist and the author of the four ‘Very British Problems’ books, with a huge following on social media. Now 35, he is back living with his parents in Cambridgeshire after the …...Read More

The Lives Of Lucian Freud: Fame William Feaver Bloomsbury £35 Rating: The father of one of his girlfriends regarded him as the most selfish man he’d ever met. The poet Stephen Spender thought him evil. He repulsed many an art critic. ‘Parks have flashers, art has Freud,’ wrote one. When …...Read More

Strike Sunday & Monday, BBC1 Rating: All Creatures Great And Small Tuesday, Channel 5 Rating: J.K.Rowling’s private investigator, Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke), is back, and he is a great detective, although not so great that he can detect that Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger), his assistant, is in love with him. …...Read More