Celebrations & seasons
Think hats and scarves, sparklers and fireworks, toffee apples and mulled wine...we bet Guy Fawkes didn't think we'd still be marking the plot some 400 years later.
Pasta puttanesca (tart's spaghetti)
In Italian, a puttanesca is a 'lady of the night', which is why Delia Smith's red hot sauce is fiery, strong and gutsy
Butter beans with rosemary and semi sun-dried tomatoes
Rachel Allen's speedy little recipe is great with roast lamb or as a pasta sauce with lots of grated parmesan
Ham shanks braised in cider with cloves
Paul Heathcote serves this old-fashioned slow-cooked feast with potatoes and mustard
Baked beans balti
It's time to give baked beans a makeover with Manju Mahli's simple Indian flourish
Black eye beans à la shack
Charita Jones celebrates soul cooking with fiery chillies, colourful peppers and heaps of black-eyed peas...
