RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Green chicken curry

  Make Nigel Slater's delicious Thai chicken curry, packed with fresh and flavoursome green herbs and perky chillies

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  Chicken and sweetcorn soup

  Try Ainsley Harriott's version of popular chicken and sweetcorn soup - originally from the southwest of China...

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  Yummy tomato cream

  Add either cream cheese or mince meat to this baby-friendly tomato soup

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  Scallops, shrimps and white wine

  James Martin serves scallops in a brown shrimp butter with wilted chard

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  Floating islands with rhubarb compote

  Rachel Humphrey, head chef at Le Gavroche, makes a delicious dessert of crisp meringues floating on crème anglaise with a vivid sauce

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  Calypso pepperpot chicken with plantain

  Marinate Ainsley Harriott's chicken dish overnight, cover with kitchen wrap and refrigerate for extra depth of flavour

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  Rabbit with agen prunes and polenta

  Rich and warming, this hearty casserole by Rick Stein is studded with sweet prunes - a real treat and feast of flavour

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  Pink champagne truffles

  For an after-dinner treat, or a very special gift for a chocolate lover, you can't beat Claire Clark's heavenly truffles

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  Fisherman’s relish

  The surprise ingredient of Theodore Kyriakou’s traditional fishermen’s spread is rabbit – perhaps because rabbits are so plentiful on the Greek islands

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  Pockmarked grandmother’s beancurd (mapo tofu)

  Gary Rhodes cooks a famous Sichuan dish of silky tofu with, known convivially as 'pockmarked grandmother's beancurd'