RECOMMENDATIONS

• 

  Spiced apple samosas

  Hot golden pastry pouches filled with delicious apple, sultanas and cinnamon is a triumph of a dish from Paul Merrett

• 

  Rolled roast pork with butternut squash

  Sarah Thatcher cooks up a pork roast with all the trimmings

• 

  Squash & pepper stacks

  Exotic red rice is sandwiched between two slices of butternut squash making an impressive dinner party dish from the Vegetarian Society

• 

  Sweet and sour pumpkin curry

  Sweet and sour flavours combine with subtle spicing in Khatta Meetha, a Marwari vegetable dish from Gunjan Goela

• 

  Cranachan and shortbread tower

  Eadie Manson combines two traditional Scottish desserts into the perfect tea-time treat

• 

  Very easy raspberry ice cream

  You don’t need an ice cream machine, or any patience to make Silvana Franco’s chocolate-rippled raspberry ice cream

• 

  Fidget pie

  Matthew Fort makes the Midlands equivalent to the Cornish pasty – a sweet and savoury pie filled with apples, cider and bacon

• 

  Rose-scented cream

  Erika Parry produces a truly decadent dessert, a rose infused creamy jelly, alongside marzipan filled figs and a scattering of rose petals

• 

  Lamb tagine and cauliflower 'couscous'

  Paul Merrett’s luscious lamb tagine is served with cauliflower ground into tiny pieces and steamed to resemble couscous

• 

  Roast mallard with rhubarb tart

  A sweet and spiced tart and tangy pomegranate dressing make this dish from Jun Tanaka a stunner