Cookbook of the week: Food Glorious Food When Simon Cowell noticed that food is as big on the telly as pop music, he launched a search for Britain's best home recipe, and amateur cooks competed for first prize (£20,000 and their dish produced by M&S). The levels of inventiveness and sophistication of the 100 recipes gathered here leave you goggle-eyed at the things ordinary people get up to, so congrats to Cowell, who notes that he 'always believed the best British food is found on kitchen tables," and to those whose recipes include such stunners as nettle cake and Maunsel pudding (apple and Mars bar crumble). Ginger beef by Kevin Little evolved from an accidental coupling of beef and icing sugar... 250g fillet steak, cut into pieces 1 red pepper, cut into strips 5cm piece of ginger, thinly sliced 1 medium-hot chilli, halved, de-seeded and thinly sliced the zest of 1 orange the juice of 1½ oranges 3 tbsp dark brown sugar 2-4 tbsp soy sauce (to taste) 1 bunch of spring onions, thinly sliced Heat the oil in a wok, and cook the steak for two minutes. Add the pepper and cook for two minutes more. Add the ginger, chilli, orange zest and juice, sugar and soy sauce and cook for one minute. Set aside. Stir-fry the spring onions in the hot wok for 20 seconds then sprinkle on the beef and serve with rice.