RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Smoked salmon with horseradish and potato salad

  Jun Tanaka tea-smokes salmon in a wok for this simple and classic dish

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  Olive straws

  As a variation, you can replace the olives in Michel Roux’s party recipe with tinned anchovies - be sure to drain all the oil from the tin

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  Fruit dumplings

  Apricots, blueberries and plums are the secrets hidden inside these Lady Grenfell-Baines' light dumplings

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  Roast rack of pork with crackling

  Galton Blackiston adds lemon, garlic and sage to classic roast pork - for really top-notch crackling, look for dark, dry skin when buying pork

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  Salmon and vegetables en papillote

  Tana Ramsay’s method of cooking fish is so easy and the children love it, especially when they have their own little fish parcels. The steaming process traps all the goodness and flavour of the fish – what could be better?

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  Baked field mushrooms with tapenade on garlic croûtes

  Full-flavoured and deliciously garlicky, Rick Stein's baked mushrooms are simple to put together and tasty too...

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  Pork cutlets with preserved peppers

  Cooked in sugar and vinegar, the preserved peppers in Gennaro Contaldo’s quick and simple tasty dish, really do give a kick to the pork

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  Nigerian rice and stew

  Grace Kerry makes a mixed meat and fish stew that you can make as spicy as you dare

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  Mountain sausages in white wine (diots au vin blanc)

  Mike Robinson puts a spin on cooking flavoursome sausages -an ideal meal to come home to after being outdoors,

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  Green tea ice cream

  Everyone loves ice cream and this one from Antony Worrall Thompson is a winner!