An easily cooked Madagascan squid curry with flavours of tomato, ginger, chilli and peanuts, the building blocks of Madagascan cuisine

A version of a very traditional dish from Cape Town that uses hearty ingredients—lamb, potatoes, onions and tomatoes—with distinctive spices

This Ligurian pasta with mushrooms, capers and walnuts and other ingredients; ready in under 30 minutes; vegan, vegetarian or other

This vegan butterbean curry with mint is my riff on Indian Diasporan cooking from Africa's east coast of the kinds used to make bunny chow

Another delicious vegan-to-carnivore curry from Southern Africa's Eastern Seaboard, a tomato and peanut curry with mustard greens

These top 12 versatile ingredients are the readymade things that can last in your kitchen cupboard or fridge for weeks—or even months

A low-fat pasta of roasted butternut and walnut pesto, with garlic and parsley, combined with mushrooms

Tuscan pasta with fennel —and sausage for those who eat meat—is another dish that can be readily be vegetarian or not.

Piedmontese spezzatino with stuffed squash is an ideal autumnal dish, cooked with a special vegetable mix that gives base flavours

Vegetarian mushroom and courgette pasanda with spiced carrots and peas (gajar matar), garlic bread and corn on the cob

This make-do-and-mend sauce for gammon is the result of a disastrous fridge-freezer meltdown to not waste good food

Speedy Huevos Rancheros is breakfast of champions that works very well as a light meal any time of the day.