RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Porcini risotto

  This dish is popular throughout northern Italy, especially in Piedmont, and is one of Antonio Carluccio's favourite dishes

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  Chocolate tart with clotted cream

  A simple and sensational chocolate dessert from John Burton Race that can be made in advance and reheated just before serving

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  Wild garlic soup

  Make the most of this season’s produce with Clodagh McKenna’s hearty soup recipe, served with a wild garlic pesto

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  Chicken curry

  Tom Green combines an array of spices to make a richly flavoured tomato and coconut milk-based chicken curry for any occasion

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  Rhubarb pancakes with cassis cream and apple brandy

  Arthur Potts Dawson's pancakes have both a soft rhubarb filling and a caramelised rhubarb coating

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  Roast rib of beef with yorkshire pudding

  For a traditional Sunday lunch, what could be better than Frank Bordoni's rib of beef with Yorkshire pudding

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  Sweet and sour pork with water chestnuts

  Tender pork and crunchy water chestnuts are brought together in a sweet and sour sauce in this recipe harking from Beijing’s Imperial era. Recipe by Gary Rhodes

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  Rooster ‘Tattie Soup’ with Cauliflower and Cumin

  Dress-up potatoes and caulis in this superb dinner party soup, made by well known chef Andrew Fairlie

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  Raised pork and bramley apple pie

  Trish Hilferty is the author of Gastropub Classics, published by Absolute Press. e often works at The Eagle in London's Farringdon, which is widely acknowledged as having started the gastropub revolution...

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  Sausage and pea risotto

  Vary the sausages you use in Ainsley Harriot's risotto - top notch pork and leek or Toulouse sausages are both particularly good