Cauliflower with shrimps

Simple cauliflower recipe with shrimps, great served with baked or grilled fish

Effortless raspberry iced mousse

Use raspberries straight from the freezer for a mousse that will unfreeze your tastebuds

Kale pesto

This leafy green cabbage-like vegetable is a genuine superfood – it’s great whizzed up in place of basil in an Italian sauce

Scary Halloween jelly

Trick or treat time! This kids' party dessert may look gruesome, but the eyeballs and fingers are all sweet and fruity bites

Smoked salmon soufflé tart

A sophisticated quiche, rippled with salmon slices, goat’s cheese and dill

Chilli ginger lamb chops

Marinate your chops with ginger, lemon, chilli and cumin then chargrill until juicy in the middle

Linguine with watercress & almond pesto

Make your own Italian sauce from nuts, garlic and watercress, add a touch of lemon and serve with pasta

Apricot & ratafia sponge cake

A simple fruit cake flavoured with almond and Amaretti biscuits – perfect with tea or as dessert served with cream or custard

Salmon & horseradish burgers

Fishcakes served in a bun with contrasting hot horseradish, a cool and creamy dip and crunchy salad

Seared scallops with flavoured greens

Cooking for friends? This sophisticated starter is a taste sensation with lemon, anchovies and garlic packing a punch

Frozen blackberry fool

Falling somewhere between an ice cream and a syllabub, this berry-rippled dessert is seasonal and spectacular

Sautéed asparagus, toasted almonds & manchego cheese

Drizzle asparagus with nutty brown butter, top with toasted whole almonds and shavings of salty manchego for a springtime starter that's so simple to make