When I go to a restaurant I always ponder for hours over the menu, trying to make my mind up. On our honeymoon we went to Rome and once we ate in a perfect restaurant, the food was great but most of all the waiter only asked us one question: red or white...

This Green Couscous Salad keeps its promises, you get different shades of green and as a bonus different textures, soft broad beans, crunchy green beans and bursting capers. Every bite is a surprise. I got the idea from the New-Zealand Cook Annabel Langbein....

I love composing menus and I often spend an hour on my couch reading and looking for recipes, trying to decide what could go well together. I like to host dinner parties but I want to spend the evening with my guests and not stressing in the kitchen....

I went to the farmers' market this morning and saw fresh broad beans for the first time this year. When I came home I wondered what to do with them, so I asked the British gardener and cook Sarah Raven for advice by looking broad beans up in her "Garden...