Guardian Weekend: summer food and drink special

Yotam Ottolenghi's sensational salads

Tomato and roasted lemon salad. Photograph: Deirdre Rooney for the Guardian

The sweetest tomatoes balance the bitter lemon in a winning dish that just screams: "Summer!"

Plus:
• Smoked mackerel and pickled walnut salad
• Butternut tataki and udon noodle salad

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's brilliant alternative barbeuce

Lamb and apricot kebabs with spiced yoghurt: 'I love the combination of spicy, savoury meat and sweet-tart fruit,' Hugh says. Photograph: Deirdre Rooney for the Guardian

There's a whole lot more to barbies than burgers and bangers.

Plus:
• Spicy, yoghurt-marinated chicken
• Grilled carrot and halloumi
• Barbecued bass over bay
• Chargrilled potatoes, courgettes and spring onions
• Barbecued peach melba

Angela Hartnett's cooling ices

Watermelon negroni ice lollies. Photograph: Deirdre Rooney for the Guardian

From a boozy lolly for grown-ups to a fragrant orange and basil sorbet, nothing beats a cooling summer ice on a sunny day.

Plus:
• Strawberry yoghurt pops
• Classic raspberry ripple ice-cream
• Orange and basil sorbet

Paul Hollywood's favourite summer bakes

Spanakopita. Photograph: Deirdre Rooney for the Guardian

'People think of baking as a winter activity. I think it's even
more suited to the summer months.'

Plus:
• Clafoutis Monique
• Summer fruit génoise
• Passion fruit soufflés
• Olive breadsticks

Russell Norman's cracking cocktails and mocktails

Cucumber and basil martini. Photograph: Deirdre Rooney for the Guardian

From a clever twist on the martini to a beetroot and lime refresher for all the family, Polpo's frontman picks his favourite summer drinks.

Plus:
• Aperol spritz
• Cynar gin fizz
• Bellini
• Negroni sbagliato
• Beetroot and lime water
• Elderflower lemonade

All this, plus summer food tips from Hawksmoor, MeatLiquor and The Clove Club, drink recommendations from Fiona Beckett, and summer party advice and playlists from party planner extraordinaire Fran Cutler, fashion designer Henry Holland, the Serpentine Gallery's Julia Peyton-Jones, and pop critic Alexis Petridis.