TV guide - Wednesday, 21/05/25

00:00
Rick Stein's Food Heroes
In Wakefield, Rick makes a sublime rhubarb crumble and meets Janet Oldroyd, whose family have been farming rhubarb for four generations. In Bradford, he visits the home of the late novelist JB Priestley, before discovering a perfect recipe for lamb karahi at the Karachi restaurant, one of the sole surviving working men's cafes from the days of the productive woollen textile mill industry.
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00:30
My Market Kitchen
Ben visits Damian from Pike's Mushrooms and serves up a bowl of heart-warming potato and mushroom soup and delicious risotto milanese.
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01:00
Cooking with Curtis
David is a meat and potatoes kind of guy, but wants to celebrate his wife, Valerie, who lost 23kg after adopting a plant-based diet. Curtis helps David create an innovative, vegetable-forward menu of spaghetti carbonara with smoked mushrooms, a farmers' market salad, and strawberry-rippled ice cream with candied almonds.
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01:30
The Big Irish Food Tour
Dublin-born celebrity chef Anna Haugh is passionate about Irish food. And after nearly 20 years in London, she's heading home for The Big Irish Food Tour-a sweet-and-savoury exploration of the Emerald Isle's unique culture and cuisine.
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02:00
Prue Leith: My Cotswold Kitchen
Prue is joined by Professor Tim Spector as he cooks herby pea pancakes with sauerkraut.
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03:00
Come Dine with Me
It's the third night in Bolton and the turn of Influencer and model Thandie. She's hoping her fare will impress the gang and help bag her the prize.
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03:30
Come Dine with Me
It's the third night in Bolton and the turn of HR Manager Jay. She's decided that keeping things simple will ensure her the grand prize.
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04:00
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Are you bready? Comedy legend Jean Kittson and cookbook author Ella Mittas join Adam to put tasty stuff on toast.
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04:30
River Cottage Forever
Hugh arranges a meeting with Antony Hichens, his landlord from the big house, to discuss the prospect of Hugh acquiring the rights to fish for the huge grass carp that inhabit the muddy estate lake. Amazed that his carp are in fact edible, Antony challenges Hugh to serve one at his upcoming dinner party. Should his guests find it palatable, Hugh gets the fishing rights, if not, Hugh has to clean out Antony's garden pond.
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05:00
Rick Stein's Food Heroes
In Wakefield, Rick makes a sublime rhubarb crumble and meets Janet Oldroyd, whose family have been farming rhubarb for four generations. In Bradford, he visits the home of the late novelist JB Priestley, before discovering a perfect recipe for lamb karahi at the Karachi restaurant, one of the sole surviving working men's cafes from the days of the productive woollen textile mill industry.
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05:30
Luca's Key Ingredient
Luca shows us his favourite recipes using the key ingredient: coffee.
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06:00
Taste of The Tropics: Family & Friends
Join Davy O'Rourke on a culinary journey across tropical North Queensland as he prepares a traditional Papua New Guinean Mumu - earth oven - with the help of his family and friends.
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06:30
The Zimmern List
Andrew heads to St Louis to get his fill of comfort food. He savours barbecued pig snoots, indulges in a modern Midwestern incarnation of traditional Italian fare, and slurps noodles at one of the hottest new spots for East Asian fare.
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07:00
Freshly Picked with Simon Toohey
The King of Baklava returns with a recipe for filo tarts that layers the flavours of pistachios. Get the recipe for a roasty, creamy and crunchy cauliflower main and a naughty fried bread with tofu.
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07:30
Food Unwrapped
Jimmy investigates why we seem to be importing so much venison from New Zealand and discovers how to keep UK venison on our supermarket shelves. Kate is in Italy meeting the makers of mozzarella. In Italy's Campania region, she learns the ancient techniques used to produce the cheese. Matt uncovers the nasty bacteria potentially lurking in raw bean sprouts.
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08:00
Mary Makes It Easy
Mary pays homage to fromage with four recipes where cheese is the star. For summertime grilling, paneer tikka puts the Indian cheese dish on the barbecue, then serves it up with a fresh cilantro mint chutney. Then, Mary puts a savoury twist on French toast with smoked gouda.
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08:30
Lidia's Kitchen
Pasta is a staple in any Italian home and today, Lidia prepares three pasta recipes; Ziti with kale pesto and crispy bacon, fusilli with tomato pesto, and campanelle with shrimp and fennel.
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09:00
Kriol Kitchen
All of the dishes like Malaysian spicy chicken, fried chilli eggs and spicy Malay noodles come across the ocean from Hasimah's father.
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09:30
Taste of Australia with Hayden Quinn
Hayden goes abalone diving, surfs the breaks at Margaret River, walks the epic cape-to-cape trail, and then creates the ultimate 'surf and turf' cook-up at a local winery.
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10:00
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Tobie is back with a healthy pizza, with a base made from cauliflower!
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10:30
Marcus Wareing's Kitchen Garden Tales
Marcus has faced some setbacks. Not everything in the kitchen garden has done well and he'll need to learn from experience next time. He seeks advice.
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11:00
Oliver's Twist
Jamie reunites with his old band, Scarlet Division, for a meal. He cooks up cheese and spinach cannelloni, grilled marinated mushrooms with gremolata, caramelised fruit kebabs and Caipirinha.
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11:30
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Are you bready? Comedy legend Jean Kittson and cookbook author Ella Mittas join Adam to put tasty stuff on toast.
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12:00
Cooking with Curtis
David is a meat and potatoes kind of guy, but wants to celebrate his wife, Valerie, who lost 23kg after adopting a plant-based diet. Curtis helps David create an innovative, vegetable-forward menu of spaghetti carbonara with smoked mushrooms, a farmers' market salad, and strawberry-rippled ice cream with candied almonds.
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12:30
The Big Irish Food Tour
Dublin-born celebrity chef Anna Haugh is passionate about Irish food. And after nearly 20 years in London, she's heading home for The Big Irish Food Tour-a sweet-and-savoury exploration of the Emerald Isle's unique culture and cuisine.
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13:00
Taste of The Tropics: Troppo Kitchen
Chef Nick Holloway travels across Far North Queensland to source the best ingredients for a tropical feast. Along the way he'll meet and discover the people, places and beautiful stories there.
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13:30
The Zimmern List
Andrew heads to Motor City to grab a slice of Detroit-style pizza, line up for Coney Island chilli fries, fill up on timeless Middle Eastern classics, and dine at a Detroit institution in the making.
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14:00
My Market Kitchen
Ben creates the ultimate cheat day meal with his fried chicken brioche burgers. Kathy from Sweet Greek serves up a bowl of wholesome chicken meatball soup.
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14:30
Luca's Key Ingredient
Luca shows us his favourite recipes using today's key ingredient, zucchini flowers.
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15:00
Freshly Picked with Simon Toohey
Simon super charges broccoli to create the ultimate snack, heads for the hills in search of beetroot, and reveals the secret to the ultimate veggie stock. Tobie's in the house with a green pasta.
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15:30
Food Unwrapped
Jimmy is in Thailand to ask if food additive MSG is really as bad as the scare-mongering headlines claim? Kate is curious about Brazil nuts, and finds herself deep in the Amazonian rainforest, investigating rumours that the Brazil nuts on UK supermarket shelves are all radioactive. While Matt wants to see how a UK business manages to produce 1.5 million bottles of elderflower cordial - without employing a single flower picker.
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16:00
Mary Makes It Easy
Not every meal needs to have meat as the star. Whether it's for health, the environment, or any other reason, lots of people are trying their hand at 'Meatless Mondays'.
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16:30
Lidia's Kitchen
Comfort food is loved in America, and today, Lidia shares comfort foods Italians love to make. Beef and potato goulash with sweet Hungarian paprika, country salad, and hazelnut parfait.
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17:00
Kriol Kitchen
Drawing on the local seafood from Roebuck Bay, Ali and Mitch take us to a childhood location that has on many occasions fed their family well with shellfish, fish and turtles aplenty.
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17:30
Taste of Australia with Hayden Quinn
Hayden enjoys riding through the Hunter Valley and touring some local vineyards, then cooks with one of the best views in Australia as the backdrop.
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18:00
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Trish is in the kitchen today making a chocolate ginger bread slice. Justine shares a tip for poached scrambled eggs and makes a creamy pasta.
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18:30
Marcus Wareing's Kitchen Garden Tales
There is an abundance of fruits falling from the trees in the orchard that often go to waste. Marcus decides to make them into his own cider and visits an expert to help him fulfil this idea.
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19:00
Oliver's Twist
Jamie throws a Bollywood-style party, treating his guests to a feast of Indian food, including vegetable pie, Indian paneer cheese, papadum bread, and lots of tasty dips.
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19:30
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Two supremely talented chefs, Stephannie Liu and Brian Cole, join Adam to share their surprisingly easy recipes.
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20:00
Nadiya Bakes
Nadiya shares four recipes featuring pure, unadulterated, chocolatey bliss! First up it's Nadiya's ultimate 'Money Can't Buy You Happiness' brownie.
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20:30
Rachael Ray in Tuscany
Rachael Ray brings you her mouth-watering Italian specialties from her very own kitchen in her Tuscan villa, utilising the best local ingredients from the region with her own personal twists.
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21:00
Tom Kerridge Cooks Britain
Tom Kerridge heads to Scotland to discover what it takes to produce the food on our plate and to cook with the British ingredients he finds along the way.
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21:30
Ready Jet Cook
Jet Tila whips up two world-famous chicken dishes to prove how delicious chicken can be.
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22:00
Come Dine with Me
It's the final night of the competition in Bolton, where loudmouth Financial Advisor Louis is hoping his fancy menu can trump all others'.
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22:30
Come Dine with Me
This week's competition is in and around Norwich, where the first to host is multi-award-winning mind reader and magician, the 'Amazing' Anthony.
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23:00
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Two supremely talented chefs, Stephannie Liu and Brian Cole, join Adam to share their surprisingly easy recipes.
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23:30
River Cottage Forever
It's late May, the vet calls and it's bad news: Marge the cow is not as pregnant as Hugh once thought, there'll be no more lambs and the first batch of eggs are all addled. But his spirits are raised by the news that huge shoals of cuttlefish are massing off the Dorset coast. Scenting a free meal, Hugh sets about designing a honey trap - a lobster pot fitted with a dummy female cuttlefish to lure in the eager males.
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TV guide - Thursday, 22/05/25

00:00
Rick Stein's Food Heroes
Rick pays a visit to his favourite formal vegetable garden at Chatsworth House, where he also chases chickens and cooks cabbage. Then he crosses the River Severn to sample the delights of Wales, including cawl, Welsh black beef, Conway mussels, and salt marsh lamb.
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00:30
My Market Kitchen
Ben creates the ultimate cheat day meal with his fried chicken brioche burgers. Kathy from Sweet Greek serves up a bowl of wholesome chicken meatball soup.
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01:00
Nadiya Bakes
Nadiya shares four recipes featuring pure, unadulterated, chocolatey bliss! First up it's Nadiya's ultimate 'Money Can't Buy You Happiness' brownie.
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01:30
Rachael Ray in Tuscany
Rachael Ray brings you her mouth-watering Italian specialties from her very own kitchen in her Tuscan villa, utilising the best local ingredients from the region with her own personal twists.
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02:00
Tom Kerridge Cooks Britain
Tom Kerridge heads to Scotland to discover what it takes to produce the food on our plate and to cook with the British ingredients he finds along the way.
en
02:30
Ready Jet Cook
Jet Tila whips up two world-famous chicken dishes to prove how delicious chicken can be.
en
03:00
Come Dine with Me
It's the final night of the competition in Bolton, where loudmouth Financial Advisor Louis is hoping his fancy menu can trump all others'.
en
03:30
Come Dine with Me
This week's competition is in and around Norwich, where the first to host is multi-award-winning mind reader and magician, the 'Amazing' Anthony.
en
04:00
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Two supremely talented chefs, Stephannie Liu and Brian Cole, join Adam to share their surprisingly easy recipes.
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04:30
River Cottage Forever
It's late May, the vet calls and it's bad news: Marge the cow is not as pregnant as Hugh once thought, there'll be no more lambs and the first batch of eggs are all addled. But his spirits are raised by the news that huge shoals of cuttlefish are massing off the Dorset coast. Scenting a free meal, Hugh sets about designing a honey trap - a lobster pot fitted with a dummy female cuttlefish to lure in the eager males.
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05:00
Rick Stein's Food Heroes
Rick pays a visit to his favourite formal vegetable garden at Chatsworth House, where he also chases chickens and cooks cabbage. Then he crosses the River Severn to sample the delights of Wales, including cawl, Welsh black beef, Conway mussels, and salt marsh lamb.
en
05:30
Luca's Key Ingredient
Luca shows us his favourite recipes using today's key ingredient, zucchini flowers.
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06:00
Taste of The Tropics: Troppo Kitchen
Chef Nick Holloway travels across Far North Queensland to source the best ingredients for a tropical feast. Along the way he'll meet and discover the people, places and beautiful stories there.
en
06:30
The Zimmern List
Andrew heads to Motor City to grab a slice of Detroit-style pizza, line up for Coney Island chilli fries, fill up on timeless Middle Eastern classics, and dine at a Detroit institution in the making.
en
07:00
Freshly Picked with Simon Toohey
Simon super charges broccoli to create the ultimate snack, heads for the hills in search of beetroot, and reveals the secret to the ultimate veggie stock. Tobie's in the house with a green pasta.
en
07:30
Food Unwrapped
Jimmy is in Thailand to ask if food additive MSG is really as bad as the scare-mongering headlines claim? Kate is curious about Brazil nuts, and finds herself deep in the Amazonian rainforest, investigating rumours that the Brazil nuts on UK supermarket shelves are all radioactive. While Matt wants to see how a UK business manages to produce 1.5 million bottles of elderflower cordial - without employing a single flower picker.
en
08:00
Mary Makes It Easy
Not every meal needs to have meat as the star. Whether it's for health, the environment, or any other reason, lots of people are trying their hand at 'Meatless Mondays'.
en
08:30
Lidia's Kitchen
Comfort food is loved in America, and today, Lidia shares comfort foods Italians love to make. Beef and potato goulash with sweet Hungarian paprika, country salad, and hazelnut parfait.
en
09:00
Kriol Kitchen
Drawing on the local seafood from Roebuck Bay, Ali and Mitch take us to a childhood location that has on many occasions fed their family well with shellfish, fish and turtles aplenty.
en
09:30
Taste of Australia with Hayden Quinn
Hayden enjoys riding through the Hunter Valley and touring some local vineyards, then cooks with one of the best views in Australia as the backdrop.
en
10:00
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Trish is in the kitchen today making a chocolate ginger bread slice. Justine shares a tip for poached scrambled eggs and makes a creamy pasta.
en
10:30
Marcus Wareing's Kitchen Garden Tales
There is an abundance of fruits falling from the trees in the orchard that often go to waste. Marcus decides to make them into his own cider and visits an expert to help him fulfil this idea.
en
11:00
Oliver's Twist
Jamie throws a Bollywood-style party, treating his guests to a feast of Indian food, including vegetable pie, Indian paneer cheese, papadum bread, and lots of tasty dips.
en
11:30
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Two supremely talented chefs, Stephannie Liu and Brian Cole, join Adam to share their surprisingly easy recipes.
en
12:00
Nadiya Bakes
Nadiya shares four recipes featuring pure, unadulterated, chocolatey bliss! First up it's Nadiya's ultimate 'Money Can't Buy You Happiness' brownie.
en
12:30
Rachael Ray in Tuscany
Rachael Ray brings you her mouth-watering Italian specialties from her very own kitchen in her Tuscan villa, utilising the best local ingredients from the region with her own personal twists.
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13:00
Taste Of The Tropics: Iconic FNQ
Samantha Martin discovers the tropical culinary abundance of Far North Queensland, from iconic Port Douglas, The Great Barrier Reef, The Daintree Rainforest and beyond!
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13:30
The Zimmern List
Andrew Zimmern heads to Orlando, Florida, to discover the incredible rich food scene that's often left in the shadow of Disney World.
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14:00
My Market Kitchen
Charlie Carrington returns to show off his Lebanese za'atar roasted chicken, which captures the textures and flavours of Middle Eastern cuisine.
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14:30
Luca's Key Ingredient
Luca shows us his favourite recipes using the key ingredient, banana.
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15:00
Freshly Picked with Simon Toohey
The ultimate one-pot wonder is on, and a breakfast winner with corn and zucchini fritters. Learn to use tahini on a summer fruit salad to new heights, and the trick behind making mashed potatoes.
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15:30
Food Unwrapped
Jimmy investigates the catastrophic effects of not getting enough Vitamin D, while Matt heads to Switzerland to ask why there are holes in Swiss cheese?
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16:00
Mary Makes It Easy
Mary loves restaurant take-out. So, for these recipes she's delivering fast food flavours at home with dishes that are simple to make and even better to personalise as your own.
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16:30
Lidia's Kitchen
Lidia makes stress-free dishes: marinated mushrooms that can be part of an antipasto spread or as a nibble with drinks, vin brule (an Italian version of mulled wine), and turkey breast with apricots.
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17:00
Kriol Kitchen
Dwes cooks a favourite dish shared with him by one of his Aunties, and gives the Malaysian chilli fish dish a local twist.
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17:30
Taste of Australia with Hayden Quinn
Hayden attends the Darwin International Laksa Festival, where he catches and cooks a barramundi and makes laksa with tips from local experts.
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18:00
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Justine will show you some recipes that are bound to impress. Salmon and Pancetta Skewers, Sweet Potato Gratin and Lemon Delicious.
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18:30
Marcus Wareing's Kitchen Garden Tales
Keen to learn about owning and rearing livestock, Marcus is off to an auction with Stuart, who is selling some of his sheep, to understand this aspect of farming life.
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19:00
Oliver's Twist
On a visit to London, Jamie's grandmother and her friends partake in afternoon tea with him. He serves up lemon-flavoured banana cake, quiche Lorraine, and scones with jam and whipped cream.
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