Foodie programmes to watch on the box this week…

Everyone loves a good cooking programme, from watching some of our much loved chefs to rival amateurs’ in competition to throw the best dinner party in a ruthless attempt to win the £1000 prize at the end of the week – it has had many of us entertained for hours. Apart from a regular fix of ‘Come Dine With Me’, here are a couple more to look out for this coming week:

Jamie’s Summer Food Rave Up – Monday 16^th July, Channel 4 @8.30pm

A man who has successfully inspired many to pick up an apron with his intoxicating passion for food combined with his simple and easy-to-do recipes. Summer in Britain never lasts long, but when it does finally come along we have to embrace it before it disappears for another long and cold year. In this new series, Jamie introduces us to a variety of alfresco dishes suitable for the outdoors, from festivals, picnics, a day at the beach to barbeques in the garden.

This week, Jamie cooks up some delicious treats ideal for a festival picnic, including a portable chilli, spit roast chicken and Moroccan burgers – perfect for a pre/post rave feast.

The Hairy Bikers pies and pasties - Tuesday 17^th July, BBC 2 @8.30pm

These two culinary reprobates are back on the road and more boisterous than ever as they journey from one end of the country to the other, cooking and sampling some of Britain’s much loved pies and pasties. Starting in the South West, where they cook traditional pasties in an attempt to impress their tough audience, the Cornish locals, before venturing up to Melton Mowbray to try their hand at making a pork pie. Their journey then continues further north, cooking and noshing as they go before finishing off in Scotland where they cook a salmon coulibiac which will feed the local pipers and Highland dancers.