Easy weekend recipes: salmon and snapper

Two simple fish recipes for a relaxed weekend – snapper fillet with tomato sauce, and spicy salmon salad

Easy weekend recipes: fried eggs, poached egg with salmon

Simple meals to start the weekend – fried eggs with spicy tamarind sauce, and smoked salmon with poached eggs

Recipes for under £5: kamooniya

Itamar Srulovich serves up spicy chicken livers in this Middle Eastern dish

Recipes under £5: pozole

Wahaca owner Thomasina Miers serves a cheap and healthy broth

Claude Bosi: my traditional British Christmas

Claude Bosi has two Michelin stars and comes from the food capital of France. So what's he cooking for Christmas? Turkey, trifle and all the trimmings. Interview by Killian Fox

Observer Food Monthly Awards 2012 Outstanding Contribution: Raymond Blanc

Britain's favourite Frenchman still sets the standards to which our chefs aspire, writes Elizabeth Day

Observer Food Monthly Awards 2012 Young Chef of the Year: Adam Smith

The Roux scholar who started out on a Birmingham estate and is now at the Ritz impressed our judges, says Jay Rayner

Observer Food Monthly Awards 2012 Best Newcomer: Young Turks

From East End pop-up to cooking in Shanghai and Mexico, it's been a big year for this dynamic duo, writes Killian Fox

Antonio Carluccio: ‘We’d have the wehrmacht at lunch and then the Italian resistance at dinner’

The chef and author on growing up in wartime Italy, and other formative food experiences. Interview by John Hind

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s spelt salad and vegeree recipes from Veg Every Day!

Two recipes from Veg Every Day!, voted best cookbook in this year's Observer Food Monthly Awards.

Observer Food Monthly Awards 2012 Food personality: Nigel Slater

Observer editor John Mulholland meets the much loved cook voted personality of the year by OFM readers

Observer Food Monthly Awards 2012 Best cookbook: Veg Every Day! by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Hugh's latest mission – to have everyone eat more greens – has been a big success. Interview by Andrew Anthony

Me and my mentor: Ami Blakely and Anna Hansen

Observer Food Monthly asked four Michelin-starred chefs to pick their 'ones to watch'. Interview by Eleanor Morgan

Me and my mentor: Sally Abe and Clare Smyth

Observer Food Monthly asked four Michelin-starred chefs to pick their 'ones to watch'. Interview by Eleanor Morgan

Me and my mentor: Bernadette Box and Hélène Darroze

Observer Food Monthly asked four Michelin-starred chefs to pick their 'ones to watch. Interview by Eleanor Morgan