RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Toffee apples on sugar-glazed barmbrack

  If you can’t get your hands on barmbrack, try Paul Rankin’s recipe with brioche instead - for a really showy dessert, decorate with spun sugar

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  Chickpea and potato curry with Bhatura bread

  Use Ravinder Bhogal’s delicious deep-fried bread to scoop up the sauce of his easy vegetarian curry

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  Elizabeth raffold's orange custard

  Tamasin Day Lewis creates a delightful orange dessert based on Elizabeth Raffold's creamy orange custard

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  White sprouting broccoli with a poached egg

  Mark Jankel’s recipe is a refreshing new take on a poached egg with broccoliand hollandaise sauce

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  Herb omelettes stuffed with ricotta

  Orlando Murrin’s thin delicate omelettes are left to cool, then rolled up around a ricotta filling and sliced in the style of sushi -tasty, elegant and all ready in advance

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  Peanut and chicken stew

  Lloyd Mensah and Adwoa Hagan-Mensah serve a robustly flavoured Ghanaian chicken stew laced with chilli and smoked paprika

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  Javanese beef rendang

  Nancy Lam makes a rich coconut curry from Indonesia – try and make it the day before as flavours improve overnight

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  Tropical fruit colada

  Try this sumptuous (and non alcoholic) variation on pina colada, packed with mango, passion-fruit, orange and coconut milk

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  Grilled salmon with fennel and pine nut salad

  Light courgette fritters and a shaved fennel salad make perfect summer accompaniments to Aaron Craze’s grilled salmon

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  Mushroom risotto

  Giorgio Locatelli's recipe for creamy risotto, richly flavoured with wild and dried mushrooms, couldn't be easier to follow