NIGELLA LAWSON/Forever Summer/GREEN Nigella Lawson dips into her family's cookbooks and even literature for mint-related recipes to instantly evoke hot-shouldered summer. Whether adding a pungent, herby background to a squid salad or bringing a fresh tang to a traditional gimlet, made with vodka and gin, mint has the ability to transform whatever it touches. Nigella also looks at some food combinations so natural that you can't imagine someone having to invent them: Green Salad With Fresh Mint And Grilled Haloumi and a Corsican Omelette with goat's cheese. Other successful combinations include Courgette Fritters and Ceasar Cleopatra. Nigella also turns to the ultimate leftover food chicken for a Golden Jubilee Chicken, inspired by one of her maternal grandmother's recipes, and a epchicken, Parsley And Almond Salad. Finally there are Mint Julep Peaches, inspired by The Great Gatsby.

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NIGELLA LAWSON/Forever Summer/BLACK 2 It's summertime and the cooking is easy as Nigella Lawson continues her quest to capture the flavours of sunshine before the autumn draws in. The series takes taste buds on a worldwide tour with influences ranging from Morocco to Viet Nam and Japan to the essence of an English summer afternoon. And whether you're stuck in the city or out in the country, there's still time to venture out of the kitchen for picnics, barbecues and beach food. In this episode Nigella gives us her personal take on Italian food, from the classic Pasta With Mussels, through Black Rice And Squid Rings to her Anglo Italian Trifle. But there's still room for Prawn And Black Rice With Vietnamese Dressing, Black Rice And Avocado and Black And Blue Beef.