Dry them, fry them, turn them into sauce: what to cook with cheap, juicy summer tomatoes

Turn a bumper crop into a seasonal feast, with expert tips for baking, bottling or serving fresh in a saladAn abundance of truss tomatoes means now is the perfect time for Australian shoppers to take advantage of the lower prices – while also helping out overloaded growers. Stocking up on the summer staple will ensure your shelves are packed with tomato-based sunshine for the colder months ahead.Whether you’re serving tomatoes fresh in a panzanella salad or making a sauce for shakshuka, here are fresh ideas for making the most of affordable tomatoes.Oven-dried tomatoes are the least labour-intensive but most time-consuming way of preserving a bumper crop. Just three ingredients – tomatoes, salt and a little olive oil – will extend that intense summer flavour of any tomato-infused dish until well into autumn

Drinks to take the strain out of entertaining

How do you feel about entertaining? I have a few friends who love it. For them, it’s an opportunity to tidy the house, light kitsch candles and remember to bleach their upper lip. Welcoming other people into their home gives them the warm fuzzies.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link

Long Chim, London W1: ‘A startlingly brief menu of crowd pleasers’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

Long Chim in Soho is a new restaurant by the chef David Thompson, the man who changed the face of Thai food in the UK back in the early noughties. You’ll hear this repeated by chefs and food writers whenever Thompson’s name is mentioned, and his work genuinely warrants genuflection. Without him, it is said, there would be no Som Saa, no Kiln, no Smoking Goat, no Speedboat Bar, nor many of those other hip Thai eating spots run by earnest boys called Crispin who serve kipper curry to other earnest boys called Crispin.Thompson did not by any means invent the concept of Thai people eating – they’ve been managing perfectly well by themselves since the country was created in the 13th century – but he certainly dismantled the UK’s love of gelatinous yet sating pad Thais and of boiled chicken pieces swimming in tinned coconut milk and masquerading as green curry. When he opened Nahm in 2001, Thompson laughed in the face of the predictable, cosy and safe Thai food we’d been used to – comforting sweetness and nuttiness, with gentle, fragrant wafts of coriander and unthreatening heat – and instead favoured scallops, pigeon, Asian celery, white pepper and often alarmingly bold levels of both fresh and dried chillies

From smoked salmon fritters to bircher muesli loaf: Ravinder Bhogal’s Christmas Day breakfast – recipes

Among the mad rush of Christmas, don’t neglect the most important meal of the day: breakfast. It’s vital fuel to get you through the day, particularly if you are hosting or nursing a sore head from the night before. Christmas Day breakfast should feel festive and special, but it shouldn’t overwhelm. These recipes are easy enough to put together for a crowd without a fuss, and can be made ahead of time, giving you plenty of time to concentrate on locating the crackers, chilling the champagne, basting the turkey or perhaps even just enjoying the festivities.Who wants to slave over a hot pan making several small latkes when you can make a colossal, showstopping one? If you want to get ahead, make this in advance and reheat in the oven for 10 minutes

People in the US: how do you eat a climate-friendly diet on a budget?

Tackling the climate crisis will require us to think more carefully about what we eat, since our food system accounts for up to one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions.The best option, according to scientists who developed a climate-friendly food plan several years ago, is to eat more vegetables, legumes and whole grains, and cut back on meat and dairy. Despite the planetary – and health – benefits of this diet, it’s not always easy to eat this way, especially given soaring food prices and lack of accessibility in many parts of the US.So we want to hear from people in the US about how you’re eating a climate-friendly diet on a budget, and what other challenges you face in eating this way.You can tell us how you eat a climate-friendly diet on a budget by filling in the form below

Grace Dent to replace Gregg Wallace on next series of Celebrity MasterChef

As the Guardian’s restaurant critic she has spent an “excessive amount of time in posh restaurants, eating fancy, ornate tasting menus”, but Grace Dent’s new challenge will see her tasting the delights of minor stars in front of rolling cameras as the new judge of Celebrity MasterChef.Dent, who also hosts the Guardian’s Comfort Eating podcast, will replace Gregg Wallace alongside John Torode, the BBC confirmed on Wednesday. Wallace stepped down from the series at the end of November while its production company, Banijay UK, investigates claims of misconduct, which he denies.Dent, who has appeared regularly as a guest on MasterChef, will judge the 20th series of the show, and said the step up to main judge was a dream come true.“I’m so excited that I can’t eat, which is severely detrimental to a restaurant critic