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Squash and cumin soup with squash chips recipe

Squash and cumin soup with squash chips recipe

This is one of the best autumn soups for pumpkin or squash. The flavour improves if you cook it some time before. It also freezes well.
Sweet-and-sour marinated cabbage recipe

Sweet-and-sour marinated cabbage recipe

This is a delicious way to enjoy white or savoy cabbage - pickled and perfect with rich winter food.
Tarragon vinegar recipe

Tarragon vinegar recipe

Nothing could be better than this delicious and simple tarragon vinegar.
Tricolour pepper caponata recipe

Tricolour pepper caponata recipe

This pepper caponata is a delicious accompaniment to Mediterranean feasts throughout the winter months.
Braised chicory recipe

Braised chicory recipe

An excellent, quick winter dish - perfect on its own or with pork.
Chicken tagine with almonds and apricots recipe

Chicken tagine with almonds and apricots recipe

This delicious North African stew is a marvellous treat for a cold, wet and windy day.
Chicory and lemon pasta recipe

Chicory and lemon pasta recipe

This is a simple chicory and pasta dish, quick to prepare and delicious hot, or cold the next day.
Grape jelly recipe

Grape jelly recipe

This jelly is lovely on bread or toast and wonderful whisked into a sauce with meat or game.
Spiced aubergine salad recipe

Spiced aubergine salad recipe

This salad is lovely served warm as a first course with cucumber raita and flatbread.
Haddock, beetroot and leek bake recipe

Haddock, beetroot and leek bake recipe

One of my favourite autumn comfort food dinners – delicious with a simple salad, or steamed kale or broccoli dressed with good olive oil.
Stuffed Butternut Squash with Creamy Goat's Cheese Recipe

Stuffed Butternut Squash with Creamy Goat's Cheese Recipe

The shape, colour, texture and taste of this dish make it a good all-rounder in autumn and winter.
Toad-in-the-hole with sage and red onions

Toad-in-the-hole with sage and red onions

This makes the best toad-in-the-hole in the world. 
Cretan baked cheese with olives and capers

Cretan baked cheese with olives and capers

Sarah makes her favourite saganaki - a quick feta, tomato, olive and caper bake.
Roast cumin carrots recipe

Roast cumin carrots recipe

The beauty of these carrots is that you can make them the day before – they are just as good reheated. The slow roasting brings out all their...
Venison and Coconut Curry

Venison and Coconut Curry

Lovers of red meat should eat more venison, as it’s a lean and healthy protein. Serve with black or red rice, Jewelled freekeh and/or...
Jane's Chanterelles Recipe

Jane's Chanterelles Recipe

If you're lucky enough to find chanterelles, this wine-rich sauce with garlic is the best way to eat them.
Creamy Celeriac Soup with Chestnuts Recipe

Creamy Celeriac Soup with Chestnuts Recipe

This soup is very rich and creamy, yet it contains no cream, with almond milk used instead. Top with chestnuts, which are low in fat and calories...
Sushi Popcorn

Sushi Popcorn

Popcorn is an excellent fat-free snack, ideal as a substitute for crisps – crunchy and satisfying.
Baked apples recipe

Baked apples recipe

A British classic which should be eaten at least once during the apple season. Serve with thick cream. The apples are also lovely filled with...
Liz's marzipan and dried cherry flapjacks recipe

Liz's marzipan and dried cherry flapjacks recipe

The tartness of the dried cherries in these flapjacks prevents them from being too sweet, and the marzipan adds a hint of almond.
Mary Stearn's apple cake recipe

Mary Stearn's apple cake recipe

This cake is thick with fruit, slightly fluffy and moist, and brilliantly quick and reliable to make. Delicious served warm from the oven.
Mini pelargonium, blackberry and apple pies recipe

Mini pelargonium, blackberry and apple pies recipe

Pelargonium leaves make an excellent addition to a classic apple and blackberry pie. Make one big pie, or miniature versions in ramekins.
Banbury cakes recipe

Banbury cakes recipe

These Banbury cakes are brilliantly versatile – filled with less sweet homemade mincemeat, they are great for pudding or tea at Christmas time.
Pumpkin seed and cinnamon brittle recipe

Pumpkin seed and cinnamon brittle recipe

Perfect for any autumn party, or for a home-made gift for a hamper, this is delicious made with home-grown pumpkin seeds.
Quince membrillo recipe

Quince membrillo recipe

A classic way to eat quince. It is easy to make and stores well. Perfect for gluts in the autumn.
Raspberry cupcakes with mascarpone frosting recipe

Raspberry cupcakes with mascarpone frosting recipe

These delicious cupcakes are pretty and very light in texture - the perfect Autumn morning treat.
Rowan and apple jelly recipe

Rowan and apple jelly recipe

A beautifully clear jelly made from rowan berries and apple.
Sloe and apple jelly recipe

Sloe and apple jelly recipe

A lovely jelly with a tart taste and beautiful colour. You can eat this straight away or store for up to a year.
Sussex pond pudding recipe

Sussex pond pudding recipe

This is a very traditional British pudding, and is absolutely delicious!
Three-day raspberry jam recipe

Three-day raspberry jam recipe

The flavour of this raspberry jam is as intense as it gets, and the steeping in sugar for three days keeps some of the fruit whole, or almost, as the...
Toffee apples recipe

Toffee apples recipe

Bonfire Night coincides with the apple season. Make plenty of these for it.
Dutch apple cake recipe

Dutch apple cake recipe

In Holland this is always made with the apple variety 'Belle de Boskoop' which is difficult to find here unless you grow it, so use 'Howgate Wonder'...
Cinnamon Apple Crisps Recipe

Cinnamon Apple Crisps Recipe

These are good as a crunchy and delicious snack, served from a plate or bowl in the middle of the table. Best made and eaten straightaway, these are...
Apple and Coconut Macaroons

Apple and Coconut Macaroons

These are not really biscuits at all, but baked mounds of deliciously flavoured and textured fruit and nuts, good because they’re not too...
Home-made tea – tisane recipes

Home-made tea – tisane recipes

Learn how to make tisanes (homemade herbal teas) from your garden herbs.
Sloe gin (or damson vodka) recipe

Sloe gin (or damson vodka) recipe

Sarah's easy yet delicious recipe for sloe gin or damson vodka. Perfect for using up your winter hedgerow harvests. Bottles tied with ribbon make...
Blackberry and apple gin recipe

Blackberry and apple gin recipe

This delicious gin recipe is perfect for using up your autumn blackberries and apples.
Pomegranate bellinis recipe

Pomegranate bellinis recipe

Pomegranates are at their sweetest and best from late autumn through early winter, so make the most of them. You can squeeze the juice yourself...
Danish glogg recipe

Danish glogg recipe

Danish glögg is a delicious treat for Bonfire night, or at parties in the run up to Christmas - it's perfect on cold wintry nights.
Sarah's Superfoods: Kale

Sarah's Superfoods: Kale

As an ex-doctor, I want to ignore the fads and focus on truly exceptional good foods that we should include in our diet as much as possible –...
Sarah's Superfoods: Kale recipes

Sarah's Superfoods: Kale recipes

Try Sarah's delicious kale recipes, including kale crisps, pilaf, curry and salad.
Winter wonder foods to keep you healthy

Winter wonder foods to keep you healthy

Cook healthily this winter with broccoli, beetroot, pomegranate and blood orange.
Decorating for Christmas with Paperwhite Narcissi

Decorating for Christmas with Paperwhite Narcissi

An incredibly beautiful, long lasting, deliciously scented and spectacular table centre which will be at its best over Christmas and New Year.
Sublime dark dahlia flower arrangement

Sublime dark dahlia flower arrangement

Sarah shows you how to make a gorgeous large arrangement of dahlias.
How to make an autumn wreath

How to make an autumn wreath

Sarah shows you to make a colourful autumn wreath for the table or door.