RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Chicory, blue cheese, pecan and cranberry salad

  Rachel Allen's colourful salad is quick and simple to make and makes a very tasty light meal or side dish

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  Fried fish with cou-cou and okra dressing

  Bring a spicy taste of the Caribbean to your table with comforting cornmeal mash and flavoursome fish from Patrick Williams

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  Fennel, herb and chilli salad

  The aniseedy twang of Mitch Tonks' salad has a natural affinity with fish

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  Nine-hour roast turkey

  This may seem preposterous, but once you've tried it there will be no going back claims Matthew Fort

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  Roast chicken with bacon and Marmite

  Flossie Squires uses a British favourite to give her oven-cooked bird a savoury and beautifully-brown skin

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  Chanterelle mushroom and ricotta ravioli

  Jade Jones makes pasta from scratch for his tasty mushroom ravioli tossed in sage butter.

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  Pockmarked grandmother’s beancurd (mapo tofu)

  Gary Rhodes cooks a famous Sichuan dish of silky tofu with, known convivially as 'pockmarked grandmother's beancurd'

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  Brown shrimp cocktail

  Brian Turner’s twist on the traditional offers a more intense burst of flavour from these tiny brown shrimps

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  Planters’ punch

  Party on with Dan Redman’s version of planters’ punch – a fruity, sweet and sour rum delight!

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  Chicken with mushrooms and marjoram

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