RECOMMENDATIONS

• 

  Chocolate marshmallow spiders

  Give children a real treat this Halloween with Tana Ramsay's chocolate-dipped marshmallows complete with creepy black liquorice legs

• 

  Chicken tikka wrap

  Cyrus Todiwala’s recipe for wraps filled with aromatic chicken tikka and flavours of refreshing cucumber, tomatoes and a mango chutney is perfect for lunch

• 

  Hot toulouse sausages with a tomato, caper and shallot salad

  Seriously meaty, these delectable sausages go down a treat with Rick Stein's refreshingly light salad

• 

  Skirt steak with watercress and barley salad

  Oliver Rowe shares a simple steak recipe with a peppery salad that's full of texture and flavour

• 

  Vegetarian Christmas pudding

  In Roopa Gulati's suet-free Christmas pudding, vegetarians get to enjoy all the highlights of Christmas without compromising on any of the taste

• 

  Rustic Italian bean and spinach soup

  A spin on the classic Italian ribollita, Silvana Franco's version takes about half an hour to prepare - thanks to canned beans!

• 

  Ale and mushroom puff pastry pie with champ

  These individual golden pies from The Vegetarian Society are delicious with a spring onion mash

• 

  Double ginger cake

  Lightly crisp on top and with a good, open texture, Nigel Slater's ginger cake is light, moist and delicately gingery.

• 

  John Dory with caramelised chicory

  Dylan McGrath, head chef at Mint in Dublin, makes a seasonal fish dish bursting with the exotic flavours of chicory, blood orange, coriander seeds and poached black grapes

• 

  Thai green prawn curry

  Amoy's Chef Yang shares the cheat’s way to add fragrant Thai flavours to stir-fried vegetables and prawns