Join Prue Leith and friends for delicious comfort food

There's a lot of laughter shared in the kitchen in ten-part series Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen.

Prue Leith (right) with guest Ravneet Gill. Credit: Yeti Media

"Food has a power like no other – the ability to transport you to remembered times and places. I love it so much," Prue Leith says in the Season Two of her popular series, Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen, where she and guests share stories and recipes (and when music legend Lulu joins her, song), from a savoury tarte tatin inspired by Leith's South African childhood to designer Omi's grandmother's chicken curry.

With a long and successful career as a cook, restaurateur, cookery school founder and author of 15 cookbooks, Leith could obviously cook fancy food without blinking. But in her gently enjoyable TV series, that’s not what’s on the menu. Instead, it’s hugs and laughs with a range of friends, cooking everything from tiramisu to chicken yakitori.

“I’m in my eighties so I haven’t got time to waste,” she says. “So this series is all about the things that really matter to me – family, fun, food and friends.” (Watching the brightly dressed Leith in her killer glasses, the ‘eighty’ bit is extremely hard to believe!)

Prue and John on their Harley. Credit: Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen / Yeti Television

Along with husband John Playfair, and guests including pastry chef and cookbook author Ravneet Gill, comedian Ruby Wax, author and academic Professor Tim Spector (find the recipe for the herby pea pancakes he makes here), actress Kelly Brook, singer Charlotte Church and singer/presenter JB Gill, Leith cooks up a brace of dishes.

While most of the action happens in the kitchen, we also get to see some of the glorious countryside in the Cotswolds, as her husband John heads out and about, joining locals to learn about cheesemaking, chicken raising, the traditional skill of hedge-laying and more.

Guest Kelly Brook on set with her husband Jeremy Parisi. Credit: Yeti Media

Along with familiar comfort food, such as Leith's posh cheese toasties and beef stronganoff ("a recipe that might be an oldie, really old fashioned, but in my eyes it’s a goodie, well worth reviving"), there are tips and fun ideas, such as making jellies from leftover drinks, and some impressive desserts, including a Paris-Brest, where Leith shares her tips for success with choux pastry.

Chocolate fans should tune in to see Ravneet Gill share a decadent chocolate roulade, and Lulu her chocolate puddle cake.

Leith says in the show that her favourite things are "great food, great friends and family" and the show delivers all three, with plenty of laughs with guests, good-natured banter with her husband John and the sort of food that's easy to enjoy cooking.