LYDIA GERRATT

Hot, foaming chilli butter poured over poached eggs, sitting in a well of garlic yoghurt is Çilbir (Turkish eggs). There is something very delicious and truly satisfying about eating runny egg yolks flavoured with garlic, chilli, butter and yoghurt. What I really love about this recipe is that I tend to have all the ingredients in my kitchen (they are everyday foods!), it’s just a different way of putting them together if you’ve never tasted this dish before. It’s worth tryi

Who loves pancakes? ‘ME’ that’s what my boys scream back when I ask what they want for breakfast at the weekend. My favourite is flavoured with some sugar and lemon juice and then every now again, I get fancy, grab the bottle of rum from the kitchen cupboard and flambée the pancake in the pan with some sugar (it caramelises in the rum flames) and butter. Miraculous ingredient: Burford Brown eggs, whole organic milk Pancakes (crêpes) Ingredients 125g plain flour 1 egg (Burford

Every now and again the stars align and by some miracle I have a pack of Burford Brown eggs, a few slices of smoked salmon in the fridge and the remnants of a sour dough loaf on the wooden board. And the only thing I want to make with these few ingredients is a seriously indulgent, to die for breakfast. I used to mess around with how I made scrambled eggs, adding a little milk, high heat, low heat and they never quite worked. Until a few years ago, I was going through my Ga

I’m a very boring breakfast person. I always have very strong coffee with lots of full fat milk and sugar, white sourdough bread toasted with lots of butter. But every now and then a fried egg is on the cards…. Fried red, yellow or orange peppers are brilliant with eggs; they add a beautiful savoury sweetness that works so well with the rich runny yolks. And, that acidity in the tomatoes brings all those rich, sweet, savoury flavours together. Atticus, my 6 year old, likes

This is such a brilliant breakfast recipe; eggs, red peppers, spring onions, tomatoes, jalapenos and cheese all wrapped up in flat bread. It’s so ridiculously delicious and will keep you going until dinner time. Long before I had children I used to go horse-riding in the Sonora dessert in Arizona for a week and stay on a dude ranch (COWBOYS!!). I expected the riding to be amazing and it was, but I didn’t expect the food to be so seriously tasty - south western cooking is to