RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Topside with garlic, chilli and anchovies

  Matt Tebbutt brings the best out of beef topside with a slow-cooked stew packed with Italian flavours

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  Seared Cornish squid with chorizo

  Paul Merrett cooks a tapas-style dish of seared Cornish squid with spicy sausage

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  Chocolate cake

  For an easy treat, try Gioconda Scott's rich and tipsy chocolate cake, flavoured with lashings of brandy

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  Ultimate meatballs with spaghetti

  Inspired by The Godfather, Fergus O'Sullivan recreates Clemenza's recipe for meatballs with a rich tomato and red wine sauce

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  Basil panna cotta

  Garrey Dawson welcomes the beginning spring with this sweet and creamy dessert infused with fresh basil

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  Salmon and smoked haddock fishcakes

  David Massey demonstrates the simple pleasure of a well-crafted fishcake using fish poached in milk with bay leaf

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  Lotte a l'americaine

  Sophie Grigson makes one of her mother's favourite dishes

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  Bloody Mary cottage pie

  Tiffany Goodall cooks comfort food on a student budget, giving an old favourite a contemporary twist

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  Beef goulash (bogracsgulyas)

  Hungarian paprika adds authenticity to Tomi Komaly's goulash

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  Lemon curd with drop scones

  Glorious and easy to make, Rachel Allen's drop scones are best served warm with her creamy, zingy lemon curd