Gurdeep Loyal

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Ching-He Huang |Matt Tebbutt |Gurdeep Loyal

Matt Tebbutt is joined by chefs Gurdeep Loyal and Ching-He Huang. Special guest Aisling Bea tastes all the dishes and hopes to end the morning with her food heaven. Wine expert Helen McGinn is on hand with the perfect drink to pair with each dish and to talk through English Wine Week. We also delve into the BBC archives for clips of some favourite food programmes.

2 weeks ago | olivemagazine.com | Gurdeep Loyal

Try yakitori with citrussy hot honey, then discover yakitori chicken skewers with miso, salmon yakitori with stir-fried brown rice or chicken thigh yakitori. I first encountered Mike’s Hot Honey in Williamsburg, New York, a decade ago, when it seemed like every food establishment in the neighbourhood had bottles of the stuff on their tables, regardless of the cuisine they were serving.

3 weeks ago | olivemagazine.com | Gurdeep Loyal

Try halloumi, mango, courgette and tarragon pizzettes, then discover pear, gorgonzola and pickled walnut pizzettes, sloppy joe pizzettes or butternut and pancetta pizzettes. I love a scissor-cut Roman-style pizza slice, especially one that’s charred at the bottom, chewy in the middle and liberally topped with a plethora of things, which could be anything as long as they include fennel sausage.

3 weeks ago | olivemagazine.com | Gurdeep Loyal

Try our peanut butter pie with a cinnamon cereal crust, then try chocolate and peanut butter sheet cake, peanut butter brownies or easy banana bread with peanut butter frosting. There’s a particularly funny line by Henry James in Washington Square. Taking a gentle swipe at his plus-sized protagonist, Catherine Sloper, James proclaims that she was “something of a glutton... [She never] stole raisins out of the pantry, but she devoted her pocket money to the purchase of cream cakes”.

3 weeks ago | olivemagazine.com | Gurdeep Loyal

Try Dame Blanche with sesame-toffee coffee, then discover knickerbocker glory, strawberry sundae with strawberry sauce or The National Catastrophe ice cream sundae. It was a true pleasure to discover that the relatively mundane sounding ‘vanilla and chocolate ice cream sundae’ has a fabulously extravagant title in Belgium: a dame blanche. The original all-white dessert was created by French chef Auguste Escoffier and named after an 1825 comic-fantasy opera.