Top New Zealand chef, Miles Kirby, has created a stunning dinner party dish of seared line-caught tuna on herby puy lentils with garlic-pickled girolles and thyme crème fraiche.

The Wyndham Grand London’s Aquasia restaurant tops their menu of must-haves with a £1,000 seafood banquet, until November 28th. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ‘splash out’ on the UK’s most decadent dining experience.

Causa Limeña is a Peruvian potato salad. It is fresh and delicious and very healthy.

The British summer hasn’t exactly been wonderful. Here’s a perfect way to bring a little Greek sunshine to your table.

Eating oats for breakfast is not restricted to porridge or muesli, have you ever thought about oatcakes? They’re not just great with cheese, there’s all sorts of ‘breakfasty’ things you can do with them.

Despite current heightened discussion about the benefits of organic foods, I for one still believe organic food is important to our health and I continue to use as much organic produce as possible. Finding organic products is becoming much easier but with a gluten free diet I still have to be careful which brands I choose. So I searched for organic products aimed at specialised diets and I struck gold!

Salmon products ranging through wet-fish, smoked salmon and fish pies, have been removed from shelves and recalled by supermarkets due to contaminations with diesel.

The source of the problem has been traced to the seafood company Marine Harvest – one of the world’s biggest salmon farmers – which operates in the west Highlands and supplies fish to Morrisons and Young’s Seafood Ltd. The company said the fresh fish could have been tainted by the diesel – possibly from a vehicle – during transportation to a nearby processing plant.

The problem was first noticed when consumers complained of an unpleasant “white spirit” taste. Thousands of salmon products have been recalled from ten supermarket chains. The salmon recall is the latest in a long line of food alerts similar to the Tuna story we reported recently.

Something I have noticed since turning thirty, is that most of my friends are getting married or having babies, I guess it’s an age thing! My friends that are mothers or mothers to be, all share one major concern, how to make sure they provide a healthy balanced diet for their children. Ingredients and nutrition are of course the greatest priority but time and cost play large roles too.

Sainsbury’s has recalled a number of their tuna products due to fears they may cause consumers to become ill. Recalled products include Sainsbury’s and Taste the Difference fresh tuna steaks, fresh diced tuna and fresh tuna from the fish counter. Sainsbury’s have advised the Food Standards Agency that these products may contain high levels of Histamine.

We were contacted by a lovely lady from Friends of the Earth, who told us about the BBC’s urban chef, Oliver Rowe who teamed up with Johnny Borrell, lead singer of Razorlight to cook up a low carbon meal as part of a Friends of the Earth day to highlight the solutions to climate change. Oliver’s restaurant Konstam, sources most of its food from within Greater London, cutting down on food miles. The day was organised in support of The Big Ask, Friends of the Earths climate campaign.