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Meals for One

TV chef James Martin explores home cooking. James devises replacements for ready meals for one, including a Thai crab risotto and steak and chips with bearnaise sauce.

James devises perfect recipes to replace those ready meals for one. On the menu is a Thai crab risotto, and an easy-cook steak and chips with homemade bearnaise sauce. Historian Ivan Day recreates kippered salmon, a dish popular with single scholars who relied on quick and easy meals in their university lodgings. And cake maker Serena Whitefield explains how her love of making healthy flourless cakes has grown into a flourishing business.

44 minutes

Music Played

  • Biffy Clyro

    Biblical

  • Lucy Rose

    All I've got

  • Half Moon Run

    Call me in the afternoon

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Go Home

  • Biffy Clyro

    Pocket

  • 顿别别别鈥怢颈迟别

    Groove Is In The Heart

  • Peaches & Herb

    Shake Your Groove Thing

  • Eileen Barton

    If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake

  • Madonna

    Into the Groove

  • Biffy Clyro

    Black Chandelier

  • Biffy Clyro

    Biblical

  • Lucy Rose

    All I've Got

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Go Home

  • 顿别别别鈥怢颈迟别

    Groove Is In The Heart

  • Peaches & Herb

    Shake Your Groove Thing

  • Eileen Barton With The New Yorkers

    If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked A Cake

Food producers

The food producers featured in this episode are:
  • Keith Birkett from Selsey Shellfish Direct, Middleton-on-sea
  • Serena Whitefield from Pearl and Groove, London

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter James Martin
Executive Producer Karen Plumb
Series Producer Rosemary Edwards
Director David Robertson
Participant Ivan Day
Participant Serena Whitefield

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