Celebrate the season – and the Bank Holiday weekend – with a vibrant feast with recipes for everyone

■ Makes 12 ■ Prep 10 mins ■ Cook 20 mins 350g plain flour25g butter50g dark muscovado sugar, plus 1 tbsp extra50g pecans, chopped2 tsp baking powder½ tsp bicarbonate of soda1 tsp cinnamon3 eating appl

■ Serves 8 ■ Prep 30 mins plus 10 mins resting ■ Cook 1 hr 500g kale, thick stalks discarded and roughly chopped1 tbsp each butter and olive oil2 onions, chopped3 garlic cloves, finely chopped750g ric

Breakfast has long been hailed as the most important meal of the day, designed to wake us up, get our mind and bodies ready and put a spring in our step for the rest of the day. But if we’re being hon

Hosting a family do? Impress guests with twists on the classics, plus a pretty-in-pink pudding

Goodbye four-course meals and hello supermarket snacks