From Jamie’s Dinners, by Jamie Oliver, published by Penguin Michael Joseph.

Recipe for Banana and Peanut Butter Smoothie

An important seminar for beekeepers will be held from 2pm at the Parkway Hotel, Dunmanway, tomorrow. The seminar will be opened by Trevor Sargent, Minister for Food and Horticulture, and comes in response to the loss of the many hundreds of hives last year in this area.

The winter vegetable is particularly good with goose, duck or pheasant.

Serves 4.

Recipe for Fluffy Lemon Pudding.

Cookery Classes at Snugboro 2008: Rory O’Connell teaches intensive one-day classes at his home near Ballycotton, Co Cork. Private classes or workshops for groups or individuals can be organised! — rory@rgoconnell.com; tel: 086-8516917.

AMY, one of Sarah’s friends treated them to this one night at her house for dinner.

1.4kg (3lb) Seville oranges

WITH a pot of brown rice and some stir-fried or steamed greens, these strips of pork belly have a warm, spicy flavour.