What should you be cooking in July?

Home grown peppers are in season this month, and in our Cookery School video Delia shows how to prepare them. Click here to watch.

See our selection of Delia’s recipes using ingredients available in July...

Fruit and Vegetables: Apricots (imported), Artichokes, Aubergines, Beetroot, Blackberries, Blackcurrants, Blueberries, Broad beans, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Cherries (imported), Chicory, Chilli peppers, Courgettes, Cucumber, Fennel (home-grown), Garlic, Gooseberries, Mushrooms, Nectarines (imported), Onions, Okra, Oranges (navel), Peaches (imported), Peas (home grown), Peppers (home grown), Potatoes (Desiree, King Edward, New, Salad, Pentland Javelin), Plums, greengages and damsons, Raspberries, Redcurrants, Rhubarb, Rocket, Runner beans, Shallots, Sorrel, Spinach (home grown), Spring onions, Strawberries, Squash, Sweetcorn (home grown), Tomatoes, Turnips (baby), Watercress

Meat and Game: Chicken, Rabbit, Lamb (spring, British), Pork, Quail, Venison,

Fish and Shellfish: Crab (spider), Haddock, Herring, Mussels (farmed), Salmon (Atlantic farmed), Seabass (farmed), Sole (Dover) Trout (rainbow)

Fish recommendations are a guide only; please check current information with the Marine Conservation Society, Good Fish Guide

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The Delia Online Cookery School: For more summer dessert ideas, watch our video for custard, meringues, brulees and Pavlova. Just click the image to play.

Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

This is what I'd call half dessert and half ice cream. My niece Hannah and nephew Tom are chief ice-crea...

This is what I'd call half dessert and half ice cream. My niece Hannah and nephew Tom are chief ice-cream tasters in our family and this one gets very high ratings ...

Strawberry Granita

This is the recipe to make when there's a real glut of ripe strawberries. It's a much nicer way to conse...

This is the recipe to make when there's a real glut of ripe strawberries. It's a much nicer way to conserve them than simply freezing them. The granita looks like s...

Summer Fruit Brulee

Here is how to make a brûlée and, more importantly, how to get as much of that lovely thin caramelised crus...

Here is how to make a brûlée and, more importantly, how to get as much of that lovely thin caramelised crust as possible. This has always been a bit tricky because ...

Summer Fruit Compote with Lemon Grass

This is unusual and subtle – the scent of the lemon grass is barely there, but it does add a very interesti...

This is unusual and subtle – the scent of the lemon grass is barely there, but it does add a very interesting dimension. Any combination of fruit can be used for th...

25 minutes - 30 minutes

to cook

Summer Fruit Millefeuille

You can use shop-bought puff pastry for this - it won't have such a good flavour as the quick flaky pastry ...

You can use shop-bought puff pastry for this - it won't have such a good flavour as the quick flaky pastry below, which is made with butter - but the caramelising will...

Summer Pudding

If you’re only going to make one pudding this summer, it’s got to be a classic English summer pudding, when...

If you’re only going to make one pudding this summer, it’s got to be a classic English summer pudding, when the soft fruits are in plentiful supply. Served with thi...

Thai Crab Salad with Mango

This is a low-fat variation of Thai Grilled-beef Salad with Grapes. In Thailand they serve it with pomel...

This is a low-fat variation of Thai Grilled-beef Salad with Grapes. In Thailand they serve it with pomelo, which is very similar to grapefruit. When they’re no...

Thai Pork Satays with Peanut Sauce

My thanks to John Curtis, who was head chef at Norwich City Football Club, for this brilliant recipe. It...

My thanks to John Curtis, who was head chef at Norwich City Football Club, for this brilliant recipe. It has all the exotic fragrances and flavours of the East, yet...

15 minutes - 20 minutes

to cook

The Fastest Blackberry and Apple Tart

When it's blackberry time, we are overloaded with Bramley apples in the garden, and here is the quickest ho...

When it's blackberry time, we are overloaded with Bramley apples in the garden, and here is the quickest homemade tart in the world. It could of course be made even...

45 minutes

to cook

Toasted Sweetcorn Salsa

If possible make this salsa about half an hour before you serve it to allow the flavours to develop. The...

If possible make this salsa about half an hour before you serve it to allow the flavours to develop. The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch how to skin and de-seed ...

Vegetarian

Tomato, Mozzarella and Avocado Salad

This one is a classic, known in Italy as insalata tricolore. It’s not recorded if it was specifically cr...

This one is a classic, known in Italy as insalata tricolore. It’s not recorded if it was specifically created to echo the colours of the Italian flag, or whether so...

Vegetarian

Very Easy Vanilla Ice Cream

This has to be the most classic of all ice creams and even complete novices will find it a doddle. Pleas...

This has to be the most classic of all ice creams and even complete novices will find it a doddle. Please note that because of the sugar content in condensed milk, ...

Watercress and Buttermilk Vichyssoise

You could serve this soup warm if you prefer, but I think a chilled soup is no different in winter from a c...

You could serve this soup warm if you prefer, but I think a chilled soup is no different in winter from a cold starter and both have the advantage of being made in adv...

30 minutes - 35 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Watercress and Cheese Bread

This blissfully easy bread recipe is crunchy and crusty on the outside but soft and squidgy within. It i...

This blissfully easy bread recipe is crunchy and crusty on the outside but soft and squidgy within. It is a treat served warm from the oven but can also be made ahe...

45 minutes - 50 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian