Celebrity chef

• 1 Gordon Ramsay's chunky chips
  Dish type: side dish Serves 4 Ingredients 1kg potatoes (eg Desirée or King Edward), scrubbed or peeled Sea salt and black pepper 5 garlic cloves (unpeeled) Few thyme sprigs Few rosemary sprigs...

• 2 Eric Lanlard's Purist Christmas Cake
  Dish type: Dessert Serves 8 Preparation time: overnight soaking, + 25 minutes Cooking time: 3½–4 hours Ingredients 350g (12oz) golden sultanas 350g (12oz) raisins ¼ bottle brandy 350g...

• 3 Eric Lanlard's Chocolate and Chestnut Christmas Yule Log
  Dish type: Dessert Serves 6 Preparation and cooking time: about 1 hour,10 minutes Ingredients For the sponge 3 egg whites 130g (4¾oz) golden caster sugar 4 egg yolks 50g (2oz) unsalted butter,...

• 4 Fresh herbs: Recipes and tips that pack a punch
  Fresh living herbs, bought in pots, are a versatile ingredient whose potential extends far beyond garnishing.   They are a fantastic and simple way of packing flavour, colour and aroma into dishes...

• 5 Celeb chef Silvena Rowe talks days off, duck brains and cooking for Olympians
  Fresh from cooking up a feast for a hungry Olympic rowing team, exuberant Bulgaria-born chef Silvena Rowe has taken some time out of her busy schedule to chat to HELLO! Online. The culinary whizz,...

• 6 Father of fusion takes you on an epicurean adventure
  Peter Gordon is a chef often known as the father of fusion. It's a culinary style attempted by many and which few succeed at – earning it the nickname of ‘confusion cooking’. He led...

• 7 Top treacle tart from celeb chef Paul Merrett
  Following three years working with Peter Kromberg at Le Souffle and an apprenticeship at The Ritz, Paul Merrett worked under the watchful eye of Gary Rhodes at The Greenhouse in Mayfair. In 1997, Paul...

• 8 Gasto guru Heston Blumenthal to open top London restaurant
  Heston Blumenthal, renowned for his far-out cuisine, is to venture to the British capital in a deal with the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. The Fat Duck owner will open a restaurant in the award winning...

• 9 Heston Blumenthal on a mission to revolutionise hospital food
  First Jamie Oliver set on a mission to revolutionise school dinners, now celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal wants to do the same with hospital food. The celebrity chef is a year into a government-funded...

• 10 Sophie Dahl in the frame for new food show
  Move over Nigella Lawson - model-turned-cookery writer Sophie Dahl is being hailed as a new candidate for ultimate domestic goddess. The BBC have reportedly approached the blonde beauty to front a new...

• 11 Anthea in tears as husband Grant is booted out of 'Hell's Kitchen'
  Despite being an early frontrunner to take this year's Hell's Kitchen title, Grant Bovey is out of the show after head chef Marco Pierre White identified him as not being a team player. Despite asking...

• 12 Heat is on for celebs as 'Hell's Kitchen' gets underway
  Before Hell's Kitchen's eight budding celebrity chefs had even whipped up their first meal Marco Pierre White declared: "I don't expect much from them…" adding. "I've not got the...

• 13 Little chef captures US imagination
  A culinary sensation in Portland, Oregon, five-year-old Julian Kreusser is may soon be branching out across the rest of America. Having got hooked on TV cookery shows the youngster decided he wanted to...