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Pasta e fagioli - pasta and bean soup - is one of those simple Italian dishes that can be found the length and breadth of the country.

Mushroom souffle is one of my there’s-not-much-in-the-fridge dishes - apart from mushrooms, milk, butter, cheese. And a good bottle of chardonnay or pinot noir.

It may be too late in the season to make it now, but the recipe will keep.

Lemon drizzle cake usually has a icing as well, but I prefer a dusting of icing sugar.

Potato salad has many versions. This is my latest.

An unusual soup, surprisingly refreshing, from a 19th century cookbook

Travel Writers Radio goes to air on Wednesdays at 5pm - although not this week because we are moving studios.

This is no ordinary pavlova, this is made by a queen. The Pav Queen.

I like malt whisky, but all not malt whiskies, as I discovered in Scotland.