RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Pot au feu with rabbit and bacon

  Winter vegetables, cabbage balls and spinach dumplings make this a hearty one-pot meal from Paul Merrett

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  Pork dumpling and salt-fish hotpot

  Jason Atherton cooks his favourite dish from Singapore - this traditional dish combines the flavours of prawns, pork, spring onions, aubergines and ginger and is always served in a clay pot

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  Italian antipasti plate

  For a fabulous couldn't-be-easier starter, do an Italian job and simply buy in some deli-delicious goodies, as Jo Pratt suggests

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  Vodka and vanilla blancmange with warm raspberries

  Raspberries add colour and flavour to James Martin's creamy, vanilla-flecked blancmange

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  Coconut and raspberry millefeuilles

  Create Anjum Anand’s light-as-a-feather pastry dessert for a special dinner party

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  Nachos with cauliflower guacamole

  Aaron Craze puts an unusual slant on nachos using Middle Eastern flatbread and cauliflower guacamole

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  Christmas mess

  Mark Hix’s delicious cranberry, chestnut and meringue concoction makes a great alternative Christmas dessert

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  Chocolate, hazelnut and caramel tart

  Rachel Allen's gloriously rich and luxurious tart has a hazelnut caramel layer topped with a creamy chocolate layer

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  Pot roasted leg of lamb

  Tony Abarno from the hugely successful Anchor and Hope pub in Waterloo makes a simple yet hearty one-pot wonder.

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  Duck rolls

  These crisp spring rolls made with Cherry Valley duck make a tasty snack or starter