15 brilliant Nigel Slater recipes from 2001 to today

To celebrate Observer Food Monthly’s 15th birthday, Nigel Slater shares his favourite dishes from 1,000 created for the magazine – and others never seen before

Recipes have always been at the heart of OFM. They spring from the simple idea of enthusiastic cooks sharing ideas, passing on a recipe they have made in the hope that others too might find it delicious. Over the years many of our recipes have come from professional chefs, others from cookery writers, home cooks, producers, growers, the occasional celebrity. Some of them have been mine. Nearly a thousand if my maths is correct.

For this special birthday issue, I have brought together a collection of new recipes but among them you will find a few old favourites I have rethought. I have always enjoyed tweaking my own recipes, rethinking an earlier idea. Bringing a suggestion up to date, getting a new perspective, introducing a different ingredient, dispensing with the unnecessary.