RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Boozy toffee sauce

  Rachel Allen's boozy toffee sauce makes a nice change from Brandy butter.

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  Pork cheek salad

  Gary Rhodes' pork cheek salad with apple sauce makes a surprisingly elegant starter

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  Steamed game pudding

  Choose your favourite game to fill this succulent steamed suet pudding from Martin Blunos

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  Pork vindaloo

  Mignon Johnson cooks up an aromatic pork curry from Goa, India

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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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  Chicken with mushrooms and marjoram

  Rachel Allen serves a vibrant broad bean salad with this rich spring dish

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  Chilled borscht with baby vegetables

  Alastair Little serves a jellied beetroot soup with a selection of crisp baby vegetables

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  Stuffed Baked Rooster Potatoes

  Andrew Fairlie takes a few simple ingredients and teams them with delicious Rooster potatoes for a great warming snack

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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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  Roasted red pepper soup with tiger prawns and scallops

  Brimming with colour and bursting with flavour, Mike Robinson's easy shellfish soup makes a great summer starter or light lunch