 | Extremely low-faff square cakes | | A children's tea party could be the perfect excuse for grown-ups to reach for the baking tray and treat themselves to the cream of the cupcake. |
 | Sausage Pasta salad | | Parents are always feeling guilty. Not only do they worry about feeding their children the right food, while they are bombarded with an onslaught of unhealthy horrors through both advertising and peer pressure, but also - especially when both parents are holding down busy jobs - it's oh, so much easier just to slap a ready meal in the microwave. |
 | Jersey Milk Ice Cream | | With snail porridge and whisky wine gums on the menu, you half expect the owner of three-starred Michelin restaurant The Fat Duck to be an eight-year-old boy
But although Heston Blumenthal's add liquid nitrogen and see what happens' approach to cooking may smack of schoolboy high spirits, it's precisely this innocent enthusiasm which has established his reputation as one of Britain's top chefs. |
 | Rings restaurant at Jinney Ring Centre, Hanbury. | | THERE is something a bit different about Ring's restaurant. First, the location: a little off the beaten track, nestled among the violin makers, jewellers and craft shops of the Jinney Ring craft centre in Hanbury. |
 | Spicy Breakfast Burritos | | Enjoying a late brunch has to be one of the biggest treats of any weekend or break. There's something luxurious about savouring a leisurely feast, rather than grabbing toast and coffee on the run. |
 | Rullo Di Spinacle Ricotta | | Old jokes about vegetarian food being boring, tasteless and overflowing with lentils were long ago booted into touch as top chefs began turning out dishes so mouth-wateringly delicious even ardent carnivores were converted. |
 | Cinammon Chicken with bean salad | | IT'S all very well promising to wean yourself off ready-meals, takeaways or those routine recipes that you churn out week after week, but all too often that resolve crumbles when you get home at the end of a long day. |
 | Steak Au 'Poivre (pepper steak) | | Shake that pepper, grind those corns, but whatever you do don't take this common seasoning for granted. It's led one woman on an adventure across the world to discover its intriguing secrets and power. |
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