Nigella Lawson cooks irresistible summer recipes that can be eaten at any time of the year. The culinary delights on display range from happiness soup to slow-roasted garlic and lemon chicken sits alongside dishes that conjure up the traditional feel of an English summer afternoon

Today Nigella does Italy, proud, cooking Pasta with Mussels, Black Rice and Squid Rings, Prawn and Black Rice and Black and Blue Beef. And trifle?

Nigella takes a nostalgic look back at her pink bites: Strawberry Ice Cream, Spiced Pink Soup, made with beetroot, Watermelon Salad, and Pink Lamb.

The domestic goddess heads to the seaside for a weekend away in Whitstable and rustles up ricotta hotcakes with strawberries, a golden coconut and turmeric-infused fish curry and Vietnamese rice paper rolls followed by a white chocolate and passion fruit mousse

Summer recipes with ingredients to keep the temperature high, from sticky spare ribs containing fiery red chillies, to Indonesian chicken and the improbable but highly recommended ice-cream with a red-hot spicy syrup