Dark chocolate pudding with malted cream

This chocolate pudding is the perfect balance of richness and textures. It’s easy, yet impressive and you can even make it ahead before your guests arrive

Creamed goat’s cheese & roast beetroot salad

Combine creamy goat’s cheese, crisp apple and earthy beetroot for a simple salad that’s bursting with flavour and colour – and it looks impressive plated up

Bay leaf creams

Add the slightly sweet, slightly spicy bay-leaf flavour to elevate this simple custard to an elegant, innovative dessert. Make the bay leaf creams at least the day before you want to eat them, to allow the flavour to infuse

Taiwanese bah-tzang dumplings

Contains pork – recipe is for non-Muslims/non-pork eaters.

Try these traditional Taiwanese dumplings – bah-tzang. Wrapped in aromatic bamboo leaves, they come with a delicious pork, shrimp and mushroom filling

Easy onion bhajis

Cook crispy onion bhajis with cooling cucumber and mint raita as a snack, or alongside a homemade Indian curry. You may be surprised how easy they are to make

Oysters with apple & horseradish dressing

Drizzle apple and horseradish dressing over oysters for a sophisticated seafood starter to share. Serve on a bed of ice or rock salt with sprigs of dill

Oyster pomelo with crème fraîche

Milder and sweeter than grapefuit, pomelo is a citrus fruit that pairs beautifully with rock oysters in this stylish dinner party starter or canapé

Barbecued oysters with garlic, paprika & Parmesan butter

Pep up your barbecue with these wonderfully meaty molluscs, bubbling in a smoky spiced garlic butter. Use large green-shelled mussels instead, if you like