Tim Hayward
Professional chef
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Recipes

3-Bird Roast
Tim Hayward · Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns
This impressive 3-bird roast, featuring chicken, duck and pheasant, is a show-stopping main course for Christmas or other celebrations.

Bath Buns
Tim Hayward · Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns
A delicious Bath bun recipe from Food DIY. The traditional bread is made with hint of sugar and sultanas before being glazed and served with jam and cream.

Béarnaise Sauce
Tim Hayward · Steak: The Whole Story
Instantly elevating any dish, this classic Béarnaise Sauce is flavoured with tarragon, dry vermouth, and chervil.

Beef and Pickled Walnut Pudding
Tim Hayward · Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns
This beef and pickled walnut pudding recipe from Tim Hayward's Food DIY book is rich and warming, best served with mushroom ketchup.

Birria (Chilli Goat Stew)
Tim Hayward · The DIY Cook
A Mexican-style dish, this birria chilli goat stew is cooked with garlic and warm spices, then served with crumbled ricotta on corn tortillas.

Bistecca Alla Fiorentina
Tim Hayward · Steak: The Whole Story
A bistecca alla Fiorentina is so good that it needs almost no intervention. Under the right circumstances, you can just cook it and sprinkle it with salt. Those circumstances, though, would be a wood-fired oven, a griddle and a small trattoria in Florence that’s been in the family for three generations. For complete authenticity, it would also require the best porterhouse steak cut from a fully grown Chianina ox, measuring three or four fingers thick. Not easy to replicate. The Fiorentina is ideal for cooking on a big barbecue or grill, as long as the temperature is controllable — you need to be able to drop it fast and accurately — and the top can be closed. If you do this, sear the steak directly on the grill first, then finish it in a pan placed on the grill. A small amount of oak or other aromatic wood would not be inappropriate. For a small dinner party or a special family meal, a Fiorentina is little sort of magical. Visually, it makes a stunning centrepiece. It’s an absolute b

Café de Paris Butter
Tim Hayward · Steak: The Whole Story
This classic compound butter is packed with flavour from oily anchovies, salty capers, garlic, lemon and herbs.

Chateaubriand
Tim Hayward · Steak: The Whole Story
This comprehensive steak recipe for Chateaubriand from Tim Hayward uses a reverse sear method to ensure it's perfectly cooked.

Coq in Hock
Tim Hayward · Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns
Featuring chicken with vegetables, herbs, Hock wine and cream, this coq in hock recipe is a wholesome interpretation of creamy chicken soup.

Crêpes Suzette
Tim Hayward · The DIY Cook
Enjoy a retro French dessert revival at your next dinner party with this Crêpes Suzette recipe from Tim Hayward's The DIY Cook.

Feijouada
Tim Hayward · The DIY Cook
Tim Hayward's warming take on a traditional Brazilian feijouada combines pork, bacon, corned beef and black beans to produce a comforting stew.

French Onion Soup
Tim Hayward · The DIY Cook
This deliciously retro French onion soup recipe from Tim Hayward is an absolute classic and a wonderfully warming dish to enjoy in the winter.

Gala Pie
Tim Hayward · Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns
Tim Hayward presents his recipe for impressive Gala Pie from his cookbook Food DIY. This striking pie made with hot water crust pastry is perfect for celebration days.

Hollandaise Sauce
Tim Hayward · The DIY Cook
Find out how to make perfect homemade Hollandaise sauce every time with this simple step-by-step recipe guide.

Hot Water Crust Pastry
Tim Hayward · Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns
This easy recipe from Food DIY for hot water crust pastry will turn you into a star baker. Fill with ham hock, blue Stilton or chicken and leek.

Neck of Lamb with Miso Glaze
Tim Hayward · Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns
Blending the umami taste of miso with sticky honeyed carrots, this Asian-inspired lamb neck recipe is perfect for a dinner party.

Pan Bagnat
Tim Hayward · The DIY Cook
This French inspired sandwich recipe takes the elements of a Nicoise salad and packs them in a baguette. Think tuna, black olives, anchovies and boiled eggs.

Peking Duck
Tim Hayward · Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns
An excellent recipe for learning how to create crispy Peking duck at home, best served with plum sauce and Chinese pancakes.

Salt Beef
Tim Hayward · Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns
A lip-smacking salt beef brisket that takes a cheaper cut of meat and turns it into something tasty. Making your own salt beef is a satisfying weekend cookery project. Give it a try!

Steak Diane
Tim Hayward · The DIY Cook
Enjoy Tim Hayward's version of this French favourite, Steak Diane. Perfect for a Valentine's Day supper or any special occasion.

Tandoori Chops
Tim Hayward · The DIY Cook
Mouthwatering tandoori lamb chops from The DIY Cook. This Indian-inspired recipe, blending ginger, green chillies and spices, also works well with mutton.

