Saturday Cookbook

Saturday Cookbook - food loving mum Nadia Sawalha and top chef Mark Sargeant present a deliciously entertaining start to the weekend. Each week they share their recipes for simple and tasty family meals and are joined by a different famous face.

Dropping by is Chef Aaron Craze and actress turned food writer Fay Ripley. Fay reveals her guilty food pleasures when she gives us a sneaky peak into her shopping trolley before baking one of her favourite family recipes.

Nadia and Mark are joined in the kitchen by father and son duo Dick and James Strawbridge, aka The Hungry Sailors. They show us what’s in their shopping trolley and James cooks a Strawbridge family favourite.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined by Phil Vickery who takes on Mark in the chef challenge – this week its sausages. Will it be Phil’s Sausage pilaf or Mark’s posh sausage rolls?

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined in the kitchen by Loose Woman Andrea Maclean and top chef James Tanner. Mark shows off a delicious twist on that retro classic – gammon, egg and pineapple and serves it with wickedly delicious garlic chips.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined by Hungry Sailor James Strawbridge and dancer Andrew Stone. Mark serves up summer on a plate with his smoked salmon and pea frittata.

Saturday Cookbook joins the rest of the nation to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined by celebrated chef Phil Vickery and pop legend Toyah Willcox.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined in the kitchen by queen of soul food Charita Jones and baking obsessed actress Wendi Peters. Nadia cooks her delicious lamb kofta and egg tagine.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are in the kitchen with a chef famous for her fantastic Mexican cooking Thomasina Miers and top Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox. Nadia makes a summery mezze of stuffed vine leaves and hummus.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined in the kitchen by eighties legend and lead singer of Spandau Ballet Tony Hadley and actress turned cook and food writer Lisa Faulkner. Mark shows off his spectacular recipe for ‘Pizza in a pan’.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant welcome top chef Paul Merrett and Britain’s most popular soprano Lesley Garrett into the kitchen. Nadia makes a dish guaranteed to please a crowd, her beer can chicken.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined in the kitchen by Loose Woman and comedian Jenny Éclair and retro chef Stacie Stewart. Mark makes his tasty tuna fishcakes with a spicy pineapple salsa and cooks a favourite dish of Jenny’s.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined in the kitchen by Ice-skating legend Robin Cousins and ‘rude-boy of food’ chef Aaron Craze. Nadia cooks her finger licking kickin’ fried chicken and Robin Cousins bakes his delicious American style carrot cake.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant welcome broadcaster Johnny Vaughan and top Spanish chef Omar Allibhoy into the kitchen. Mark makes a summery dish of ratatouille with zesty halloumi.

It’s an Olympic special on today’s Saturday Cookbook. Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant welcome legendary athlete Fatima Whitbread and top chef Maria Elia to the kitchen.

Nadia Sawahla and Mark Sargeant are joined in the kitchen by celebrated athlete Colin Jackson and master patissier Eric Lanlard. Mark shows off his ultimate home-made fish finger sandwich and Nadia has a rifle through Colin Jackson’s shopping trolley.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined by comedian Al Murray and top Indian chef Cyrus Todiwala. Nadia makes her delicious lamb kebabs with home-made flatbreads and Al reveals the contents of his trolley.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined in the kitchen by top Tenor Russell Watson and much loved chef Lesley Waters. Nadia makes her tasty macaroni cheese with bacon and checks out the contents of Russell’s shopping trolley.

Nadia Sawalha and Mark Sargeant are joined in the kitchen by dancing legend Arlene Phillips and Caribbean chef Levi Roots. Mark makes a summery spinach and goats’ cheese tart with an apple and walnut salad.