If you think that salad means iceberg lettuce, sliced cucumber and a quarter of a tomato, Chef Neil Forbes and Sumayya Usmani are going to make you think again! They have some mouth-watering sensational salads on the Kitchen Café menu that will transform your summer eating. Also, Flora Shedden helps Chef Kirsten Gilmore to cook up a delicious Lebanese chicken salad and Chef Steven Devlin shows Gillian Russell how to make a warm seared tuna salad with fresh mango.

The Bangalore Torpedo, a Devil's Rib, an Elephant's Trunk, a Bird's Eye and a bit of Scottish Purple Gusto, all varieties of chilli, love them or loathe them chillies are a fundamental part of any curry.

In this month's Curry Club, Sumayya Usmani and Ghillie Basan explore how chillies travelled the world and became such an important ingredient to any curry.

They make a very quick a simple recipe for stuffed green chillies using mango powder, cumin and nigella seeds. According to Sumayya's family traditions the stuffed chillies are best eat with freshly made chapatti so she takes a lesson in chapatti making from her daughter.

Special guest Trishna Singh, Director of Sikh Sanjog and Edinburgh's Punjabi Junction joins Ghillie and Sumayya with her homemade aloo prantha and describes how Leith's female sikh community brings their home cooked, traditional Punjabi style of food into the heart of Edinburgh.

Legendary tennis mum Judy Murray joins Chef Neil Forbes and Flora Shedden at the City of Glasgow College to help them prepare a special Kitchen Café picnic. Judy gets her sleeves rolled up to help Flora with her picnic loaf and Neil demonstrates how quick and easy it is to make an absolute classic picnic food, scotch eggs. Also, Spice Girl Ghillie Basan and her friend Bernie head to the Cairngorms with their tartan rug to talk about some of their favourite picnic foods and memories.

As its Father's Day on Sunday, Chef Neil Forbes and Sumayya Usmani are joined in the garden by chilli sauce entrepreneur Gennaro D'Onofrio to cook up some deliciously marinated chicken kebabs and hand-dived scallops on the barbecue. Also, spice girl Ghillie Basan and her friend Bernie prepare lunch over an open fire using an upside down wok and food innovator Simon Preston visits Reekie's Smokehouse in Edinburgh to hear how they are using chopped up whisky barrels to flavour their meats.

Liver, cheeks and even loin are on the menu this lunch time as chef Andy Cumming joins Neil Forbes and Flora Shedden to cook monkfish, nose to tail. Also, food innovator Simon Preston visits fishmonger Daniel Bee for an anatomy lesson and food historian Fraser Wright tells us about the rich history of eating the more unusual parts of the fish in Scotland, especially in Shetland, whose economy was once solely based on fishing.

For World Milk Day, Chef Neil Forbes and Sumayya Usmani celebrate the sheer joy of milk. Neil cooks up a classic bechamel sauce to go with his pan-fried cod and Sumayya shows us the versatility of almond milk when she makes macaroni cheese. Also, Mary Hillard from Mary's Milk Bar in Edinburgh reminds us about the popularity of milk bars between the 1940's and 60's and how she really enjoys challenging her customers taste buds with some unusual Gelato ice-cream flavours such as beetroot and pickle, goats cheese and even white chocolate chilli and lime!

The brand new Kitchen Café Curry Club indulges itself in Scotland's favourite cuisine. Sumayya Usmani and Ghillie Basan explore the world of curry, not just your weekly takeaway but the vibrant, diverse and exciting flavours of curry culture across the world! Discovering their story, exploring their authentic flavours and most importantly, teaching you how to you can make it in your own kitchen every day of the week.

This month Sumayya makes a seasonal fish curry with coley, mint and carom chutney. Special guest Susan Morrison, presenter of BBC Radio Scotland's new history series, Time Travels, might be useless in the kitchen but her love of chillies and fascination with the spice trade led her learn about some of the very early curry houses that opened in Scotland just after the war.

And if you've ever wondered how to make the perfect boiled rice for your homemade curry then Ghillie and Sumayya reveal their favourite ways for perfect rice, every time.

Flora Shedden and Sumayya Usmani go absolutely tomato-tastic as they celebrate British Tomato week. Flora makes a delicious bruschetta lunch-time treat and Sumayya talks us through how simple it is to make different tomato chutneys. Also, Pennie Latin joins Ghillie Basan to make a Mediterranean classic melanzane alla parmigiana and we've drafted in gardening expert Nicola Singleton to give Neil Forbes some handy tips on growing tomato plants.

Carrots, kale and parsnip feature on this week's menu as the Kitchen Café team show you how to turn boring old veg into a mouth-watering 3-course meal. Sumayya's on the kale pakora starter, Neil does a roast onion salad for the main course and Flora turns a parsnip into a delicious pud. Also, food innovator Simon Preston visits carrot producer Steven jack in Moray to hear about his many varieties of colourful carrots.

Bread and butter are one of life's simple pleasures so this week, Flora Shedden shows us how to make a sourdough starter, Chef Neil Forbes visits a farmer in East Lothian who grows, harvests and mills his own wheat and Sumayya Usmani heads for Dumfries to meet up with Barry Graham at the award winning Loch Arthur Creamery to find out how to make butter.