RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Pigs' ear cake

  Nope this isn't a novelty-shaped kids' cake, Claude Bosi really does add strips of blanched pigs’ ears to a parmesan and parsley sponge – you heard it here first!

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  Yummy tomato cream

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

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  Bubble and squeak

  Use up your leftover cabbage and make James Martin's dead-easy classic recipe of crisp potato cakes

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  Rack of lamb niçoise

  Angela Hartnett serves succulent roast lamb with a garnish of courgettes, tomatoes and olives

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  Loin of venison en croûte

  Parsley pancakes, chopped fennel and mushroom and venison loin are encased in deliciously crisp puff pasty in Galton Blackiston’s dinner party centrepiece

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  Turkish menemen

  Try something a little more exotic for breakfast with Diana Henry’s tasty traditional Turkish egg dish

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  Roast pheasant with bread sauce and baby spinach

  An impressive dish from Curtis Stone - pheasant legs slowly braised in garlicky goose fat, with succulent quick-roasted breasts

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  Pepper crusted monkfish with mustard dill sauce

  A cracked pepper crust adds oomph to monkfish and a creamy dill sauce rounds off this splendid offering from James Martin

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  Pastel de nata (custard tarts)

  Recreate this Portuguese deli treat with Lia Baiao and John Torode’s simple recipe, made with puff pastry

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  Partridge roast with cabbage, bacon and marsala

  An ideal winter warming recipe, Mike Robinson cooks partridge with leafy Savoy cabbage in this hearty dish