Pork belly is a fantastic and relatively inexpensive cut of meat. The generous covering of fat gives great flavour, brilliant crackling and prevents the meat drying out. Tom serves his with a fresh salsa to cut through the richness of the dish and lentils to provide substance.
This crunchy, sour-sweet slaw is a perfect match for simply cooked, richly-flavoured venison loin. Each serving provides 598kcal, 37g protein, 42g carbohydrate (of which 40g sugars), 30g fat (of which 7g saturates), 7.5g fibre and 0.3g salt.
Mediterranean flavours pack in punch here and would work just as well with sea bass or tuna. This meal provides 551 kcal, 39g protein, 11g carbohydrate (of which 8g sugars), 36g fat (of which 4.5g saturates), 2.6g fibre and 1.7g salt per portion.
You can either make the dough from scratch for this pizza, which takes no time at all, or for an even speedier method, buy soft tortillas and use these as a base for the pizza instead of making your own.
Cod and potatoes, always good together, are given extra bite, oven-baked with a sprinkling of sugar to crisp the potatoes, and served with a butter, lemon and caper sauce.
The red mullet off Monemvasia are supposedly the best in the Aegean. A net full of them, red yes, but pink too with flashes of yellow as the sun rose on a still dark blue sea is a lovely recollection, and fried for breakfast later they were quite memorable. A month later though, I saw three autumn mullet in our fish shop and I cooked them simply with a dusting of semolina. I used to think the Mediterranean mullet were better than ours, but now I know the ones that come to Cornwall in autumn are prett
Do not throw away your old bread! Soaking it in a garlicky mixture of red wine vinegar, olive oil and tomato juices will bring it back to life Mediterranean-style for this classic salad.