The 20 best Nigella Lawson recipes: part 1

From her famed Coca-Cola glazed ham to chicken Cosima, Observer Food Monthly’s selection of favourite Nigella Lawson dishes

• The 20 best Nigella Lawson recipes: part 2

This may well be – indeed is – the smell, the taste, the dish that says “family” to me and my siblings, and brings our long-absent mother back to the kitchen and the table with us. But the fact that I’ve cooked it more often and over more years than I’ve cooked anything else doesn’t make writing a recipe for it any easier. If anything, it makes it harder, much harder.