The Hairy Bikers begin their search for Britain's best family of cooks. Forty families will compete in a series of culinary battles resulting in just one winner. They are joined by singer and actress Jodie Prenger who cooks her quick and easy fish pie, and Si and Dave serve up a delicious Sicilian potato cake.

The Hairy Bikers continue their search for Britain's best family of cooks. Over the next eight weeks, 40 families will compete in a series of culinary battles resulting in just one winner. Their special guest is Strictly Come Dancing's Kristina Rihanoff, who cooks a traditional Russian borscht. Plus The Bikers serve up their dish of the day, lemon profiteroles.

The Hairy Bikers host another heat of the contest to find Britain's best cooking family with a lesson in how to make Scotch eggs and a seven-minute supper of calves' liver with polenta, bacon and balsamic onions. Presenter and comedian Phill Jupitus plates up a Thai pork salad, while Si and Dave make a leek and potato strudel.

Two more families compete for the title of Britain's best cooking family. On the menu today: a seven minute supper of British rose veal involtini, Mastermind's John Humphrys reveals the secrets of a good lamb curry and Si and Dave create a Middle Eastern shepherd's pie.

Two more families battle it out in the contest to find Britain's best family of cooks. Also in the cafe is Casualty actress Sunetra Sarker who plays Dr Zoe Hanna; she cooks lobscouse and Si and Dave make a potato rosti with smoked salmon, poached duck egg and chervil hollandaise. The seven minute supper is chicken meatballs in an Asian noodle broth.

Si King and Dave Myers are joined in the café by food writer and presenter Tom Parker Bowles, who serves up his Thai-ish cucumber salad with chicken. The Bikers demonstrate the art of making a terrine and viewers can cook along to the seven-minute supper, glazed gammon steaks with pineapple salsa.

Over eight weeks, 40 families compete in a series of culinary battles resulting in just one winner. The Bikers are joined by actress Fay Ripley, who bakes a lemon drizzle cake, and the Bikers serve up their dish of the day, pork tenderloin wrapped in pastry.

The Hairy Bikers host another heat of the contest to find Britain's best cooking family with a lesson in how to make tagliatelle and a seven-minute supper of meatballs with cherry tomato sauce, which viewers can cook along to at home. Jo Wood is the special guest; she makes caramelised apple floating islands, and Si and Dave make cinnamon, banana and blueberry muffins.

On the menu today: a seven-minute supper of sausage and rosemary skewers, which viewers can cook along to at home. Actor Ricky Groves talks about his early career as a chef and makes cod boulangere with roasted garlic, while Si and Dave plate up a warming coq au vin rouge.

Two more families battle it out in the contest to find Britain's best family of cooks. Also in the cafe is actor Charles Dance, who bakes a plum, raspberry and pistachio cake; and Si and Dave make baked stuffed fish with radicchio and pancetta salad. The seven-minute supper consists of a pepper beef stir-fry with crispy noodles.

In the cafe this week is EastEnders actress Laila Morse who plays Mo Harris; she cooks her favourite steak dinner. Si and Dave make a Spanish style braised squid stuffed with chorizo and rice, and the seven-minute supper is pork chop with apples, cider and a butterbean mash.

Si King and Dave Myers continue their search for Britain's best family of cooks with 40 families from across the UK competing for the title. Their special guest is actress Natalie Casey who cooks an authentic Valencian paella while the bikers serve up their dish of the day, a broccoli and grilled pepper salad. The seven-minute supper is an open lasagne with leeks, autumn mushrooms, fried egg and pangrattato.

The Hairy Bikers host another heat of the contest to find Britain's best cooking family. The seven-minute supper is Boston baked beans with potato cakes. Actor James Redmond is the special guest, he makes a dish of spicy griddled chicken and Si and Dave make an upside down winter pudding.

The Hairy Bikers host another heat in the contest to find Britain's best cooking family with a lesson in how to make baked Alaska and a seven minute supper of steak with chimichurri and fried onion rings. EastEnders' Cheryl Fergison, who plays Heather Trott, plates up vegetable gnocchi gratin and Si and Dave make a red roast duck curry.

Two more families battle it out in the contest to find Britain's best family of cooks. Also in the cafe is broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli who plates up an oxtail curry. Si and Dave make a smoked fish souffle and the seven-minute supper is seafood tagliatelle with garlic bread.

Si King and Dave Myers are joined in the cafe by Great British Menu judge Matthew Fort, who serves a Sicilian sardine and pasta dish. They also demonstrate how to make pork tenderloin with rosemary and Parma ham, and prepare a seven-minute supper of piri-piri poussin with coleslaw and chilli corn

Bill Oddie joins Si King and Dave Myers to prepare sesame tuna with noodle stir-fry, and the pair serve cauliflower fritters and roast garlic as their dish of the day. Also included is a seven-minute supper recipe for sauteed mushrooms on toast with Parmesan cream and crispy bacon

EastEnders actor Cliff Parisi joins Si King and Dave Myers to prepare a traditional pie and mash, while the duo cook a chocolate terrine with raspberry coulis. Plus, fish-filleting tips, and a recipe for Indian-style fish in batter with carrot and coconut chutney

Former boxer Barry McGuigan joins Si King and Dave Myers to prepare a pork chop with apple sauce and mash. The duo create a plum and marzipan tart and the contest to find Britain's best cooking family continues with a lesson in making quesadillas with guacamole and mango salsa

Si King and Dave Myers make a leek and blue cheese tart, and are joined by singer and former X Factor finalist Stacey Solomon, who prepares beef tacos. The contest to find Britain's best cooking family continues, and the seven-minute supper is haloumi and mushroom kebabs with salsa verde and roasted pepper couscous.