RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Goat's cheese and pear crostata with chilli and lime dressing

  Golden orchard fruits, melting goat's cheese and chilli-lime glaze all atop crisp puff pastry make a sensational dessert from Ed Baines

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  Kozhi Melagu Veruval

  Atul Kochhar’s fried chicken dish is spicy with pepper and other Indian ingredients but is not chilli-hot

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  Mulled wine

  For a warming winter tipple try Simon Brown's simple recipe for spiced wine, great for parties

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  Passion fruit tart with coulis

  Carol Maxwell makes a refreshing fruit tart which combines the tangy flavours of lemon and passion fruit with a crisp ginger crumb base

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  Thai green curry with chicken

  The flavours of Thai cooking are so simple, and because you can use a ready-cooked chicken, this recipe by Delia Smith is actually incredibly easy

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  Rice and peas

  Junior Francis shows Gary Rhodes how to make this traditional Caribbean dish, which is the perfect accompaniment to high spiced meat or poultry dishes. It should really be called rice and beans though, since there is not a pea in sight.

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  Roast crispy pork

  Ken Hom shares the secret to getting crispy skin with a technique similar to the one used for Peking Duck. Then the skin is slowly roasted so that most of the fat cooks off, leaving soft tender pork flesh marbled with velvety fat

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  Potato mice

  These are guaranteed to leave your plate squeaky clean!

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  Frozen berries with white chocolate

  Simple, scrumptious and an easy mid-week treat.

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  Homemade pork sausages with apple sauce

  Piping hot mashed potato dotted with chopped cabbage is the classic accompaniment for homemade sausages in Rachel Allen’s Irish classic