Food of life

Simple as roast potatoes are, there’s a handful of tiny, but important, details – picked up throughout my cooking career – that when combined give you this ultimate recipe, which I believe creates the perfect roast potato. What a luxury.

Nothing is as comforting as a rich creamy lasagne and the sweet, earthy flavours of this veggie classic are well worth the effort

Prep your veggies and let the slow cooker do the work with our filling sweet potato curry

Abuttery-vanilla batter is the base of a cake that brims with a pound of strawberries.

Sweet chilli, honey, sesame oil, mirin and soy combine to make a punchy sauce for fish. Elaine Paige’s dish is a simple and quick midweek meal

We've added a selection of spices to give your bread pudding a real twist. The combination of cinnamon, nutmeg and dried fruit gives this bread pudding a really rich flavour.

This Creamy Mushroom and Leek Pasta is scrumptious. Leeks add color and fantastic flavor. It was really, really good and it re-heats really well!

Kedgeree is one of my favourite things. I do have a bit of a problem in that I can’t stop eating it when I make it because I find it so damn delicious. And it’s also very comforting – perfect for breakfast, brunch, lunch or a hangover.

The brash, punchy flavours of Persian cooking lend themselves perfectly to veggie-based dishes – and to Christmas.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: Where better to mix beetroots and something sweet than in a cake or brownie?

Everyone loves a fried snack, so let’s end the year as we mean to go on

These fragrant Scandinavian cinnamon whirls, with the sweet smell and warm taste of cinnamon, are very tempting and moreish.

Easter calls for this cheeky hot-cross bun bread and butter pudding – magic

My Banana Banana Bread is currently my most popular post by far, thanks to a little viral repinning on Pinterest. I have a feeling that the prefix “gluten-free” on this recipe will prev…