Our chef made his name cooking eggs, but he’s never stopped looking for new ways to serve them

'It's the restaurant equivalent of BBC Four - upmarket but quirky'

A gastro-farce that keeps all the plates spinning in the air

Lars Ohly, 56, quickly removed the picture after posting it on Instagram but couldn't stop the avalanche of comments in social media

Serves 4

Terry Kirby selects the best bottles to buy

Serves 4

A farm with literary connections near Coniston Water has been converted into a self-catering let

This feast will leave you sated

Southern-fried chicken is finally getting the praise it deserves. Easy to cook and full of flavour – I can't think of a better way to feed the soul. Grab a napkin!

Serves 4

Wondering whether to go out for dinner tonight? Well take it from us, you should, it will make you happier.

If all the smallholding activities we have attempted in Devon, keeping chickens comes out top for both pleasure and utility. Growing vegetables can be satisfying and is certainly therapeutic, but when you can buy a 10kg sack of potatoes for a fiver, the toil involved in producing your own seems hardly worth it. This year I have managed to sow some rocket and broad beans, and planted a few cabbages, but looked at strictly in terms of cost-saving, the gains are negligible.

My earliest food memory Racing large brown crabs across the kitchen floor with my dad. We'd buy them from our local fishmonger, MacCallums of Troon, in Glasgow. And the winning crab would get cooked first – and made into a Singapore chilli crab dish. Afterwards, my dad and I would take the inner claws from them, clean them and use them as devil horns come Halloween.