RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Chicken with braised field mushrooms

  Matt Tebbutt cooks a quick and easy dish with the classic combination of chicken and mushrooms

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  Cheese straws

  Michel Roux’s grown-up cheese straws can be made with emmenthal, parmesan or any other hard cheese and are flavoured with sweet paprika and cayenne pepper

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  Richmond maids of honour

  Supposedly invented in Henry VIII’s court, these little puffed pastry tarts have been seducing people since the sixteenth century - from Eleanor Smallwood

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  Shrimp in sherry sauce

  Matthew Fort pays homage to the Galloping Gourmet chef Graham Kerr with his dish of prawns in a creamy egg sherry sauce

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  Meringue roulade with pomegranate seeds

  A pretty pink, bejewelled dessert with delicate floral flavours from Darina Allen

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  Sausage and bean bake

  Rachel Allen makes a simple bean casserole that’s perfect for an autumn family supper - with very little washing up!

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  Rack of lamb on Welsh onion cake

  Eleanor Smallwood’s Teisen nionod, or onion cake, is Welsh comfort food at its best – layers of potatoes and onion baked in butter until meltingly soft

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  Egg with minced lamb

  Comedian Shazia Mirza shares her recipe for eggs wrapped in minced lamb in a tomato curry sauce

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  Pork saltimbocca (pork wrapped in proscuitto)

  Giuseppe Milito and John Torode wrap slices of pork fillet in proscuitto in this traditional Italian dish, usually made with veal

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  Green vegetable curry

  Home-made paste gives Keith Floyd's Thai Green Curry authenticity - from Keith Floyd's Thai Food