I feel that lentil dishes are becoming less of a vegan/vegetarian meal and moving into the "main stream" meat eaters' repertoire, and there's no reason why not. Dishes like the excellent sausage, chorizo and lentil casserole (found here) to the lentil...

I recently took a big bowl of this to a friends' barbecue and it went down very well. It made a nice change from the mountains and mountains of meat that's usually on offer at a British barbecue. Below serves 6-8 people with good sized portions, perfect for parties....

There wasn't many things I didn't like when I was growing up but I'm afraid beetroot was one of them. I'm not entirely sure why, maybe because it was usually served cold and pickled on the side of something with no business for it being there. Luckily I...