Shredded chicken, green bean & barley salad with paprika & lemon

This colourful rustic salad can be made in under an hour

Sticky stem ginger cake with lemon icing

Try this moist and gooey stem ginger cake

Salt & pepper turkey

Contains pork – recipe is for non-Muslims only
A finishing touch of a lattice of bacon makes this turkey a Christmas dinner centre-stage star

Chicken skewers with cucumber & shallot dip

These low fat, mildly flavoured skewers are excellent served with Thai fragrant rice

Hummus with veg sticks

Kids won't eat garlic? Try this hummus recipe – it's ready in 15 minutes

The ultimate makeover: Sticky toffee pudding

Angela Nilsen transforms the classically indulgent sticky toffee pudding into a good-for-you favourite

Chocolate îles flottantes

Melt in the mouth chocolate îles flottantes from Provence

Squash & barley salad with balsamic vinaigrette

A flavour-packed, unusual salad that’s delicious warm or cold – works really well as part of a buffet

Rice & peas with mango chicken

Affordable, tasty and filling, this Lesley Waters dish will become a family favourite

Dressed allotment salad

This late-summer salad makes use of veg you can easily grow yourself

Mild chilli & bean pasta bake

Whip up a healthy chilli and bean pasta meal that's full of fibre and vitamin B

Seriously good spiced fruit compote

Serve as it is, or with a dollop of mind-that-waistline mascarpone