Lara Dunston 
Our best New Years Eve recipes will make you everything from homemade dips, crisps and crackers to delicious finger food, elegant takes on old-fashioned hors d’oeuvres, tasty snacks, and more solid dishes to soak up the liquor. This compilation of New Years Eve party food ideas features some new recipes, along with some old favourites. … Read more
This spread of chilled cooked prawns with prawn dipping sauces comes together quickly but should be leisurely enjoyed, guests peeling their own prawns and dunking them into dipping sauces or piling them onto warm buttered bread or garlic toast. Provide lime or lemon wedges for squeezing onto the prawns, finger bowls of water and napkins, … Read more
This speedy shrimp dip recipe makes a rich and creamy dip inspired by the retro prawn cocktail appetiser. Peeled cooked prawns are sliced into chunky pieces and stirred into a classic seafood sauce thickened with crème fraiche. Serve with crinkle cut crisps, Jatz crackers, homemade croutons, or round cucumber slices for scooping it up. If … Read more
These last minute Christmas tips from fellow food writers, editors and cookbook authors from around the world cover everything from what they’re cooking on Christmas Day (lots of inspiration right there!), advice for people still panicking about what to cook, loads of tips to save the day if it all goes wrong, and last minute … Read more
This quick and easy recipe for prawn cocktail brioche buns takes the classic prawn cocktail and assembles the retro appetiser on sweet brioche buns to create deliciously simple shrimp sliders. Peeled cooked prawns coated in a classic seafood sauce are arranged on a bed of mini cos leaves and garnished with fresh fragrant dill. Serve … Read more