RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Salmon salad with buttermilk dressing

  Diana Henry’s delicious salmon and potato salad makes a terrific quick supper or light lunch dish

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  Oysters in stout batter with carrageen moss

  Mark Hix shares a very British recipe from Hix’s Oyster and Chop House in Spitalfields

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  Cheeseboard

  James Martin and Lawrence Keogh liven up a cheeseboard with baked French cheeses, fig chutney and rosemary spiced walnuts

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  Squirrel kebabs with pease pudding and lovage

  Zebedee Helm's old-fashioned dish is for the adventurous: pease pudding puree with the celery-like herb lovage and barbecued squirrel

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  Chicory, blue cheese, pecan and cranberry salad

  Rachel Allen's colourful salad is quick and simple to make and makes a very tasty light meal or side dish

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  Mince pie baked Alaska

  If you think you don't like mince pies, try Matthew Fort's jazzed up version

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  The Gran Turismo cocktail

  Expert mixologist Andy Pearson shakes up an exhilarating cocktail with zingy flavours from lemon curd, lemon juice and limoncello with grappa and cognac

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  Lamb chops with potato salad

  Simplicity is key with Simon Rimmer’s recipe of new potato and anchovy salad and grilled lamb

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  Caramelised clementines with rice pudding

  Sticky clementines top Matt Tebbutt's subtly spiced rice pudding

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  Pork with rosemary, thyme and garlic

  Trina Hahnemann uses pork foreloin or ‘pork roast’, one of the most popular cuts of meat in Scandinavia, though this cut is not as well known as it once was in Britain; serve it with the crisp pork rind on top