Stop buying your fish portioned & packeted. Buy your fish whole instead & portion it yourself: it's way cheaper, better quality & will help you unlock some new skills!

The perfect poached egg, every time. You can prep them in advance & use them for your Egg Benedict, or to top off your salads.

Stop buying your English Muffins, here’s a quick & easy way to make them instead! Crafted from simple ingredients, they’re fresh & soft with a crisp exterior and airy interior, perfect for Eggs Benedict or Breakfast Muffins.

Tarte tatin isn’t just for desserts, it’s a great savoury dish when using seasonal roasting vegetables. This is a convenient version which uses pre-prepared vegetables, just make the caramel, top with pastry and bake!

The true test of skill for any cook - eggs gently cooked, folded and served. And heres how to do it right, every time.

Breaded chicken breast stuffed with melting wild garlic butter, with buttery mashed potatoes and chicken sauce.

Steak and chips is a dish everyone loves, these potatoes are the way to level things up! 12 hours setting time is the only slight setback.

Cottage pie is a dish that everyone knows and loves. This French version elevates the dish by braising beef in red wine before making your ragu.

My favourite chocolate bar growing up as a kid was a crunchie, this is an adult version with dark chocolate and really easy to make.

Scallops served in a creamy sauce with mushrooms and herbs, topped with cheese and gratinated under a hot grill.

A delicious meat pie encased in pastry and baked. Filled with a meat jelly and served room temperature with a pile of cornichons.

Truffle stuffed chicken, cooked whole inside of an inflated pigs bladder. Served with a rich Madeira and truffle sauce.

Finely chopped raw beef, with capers, shallots, gherkins, and a spiced beef tartare sauce. Served with a roasted bone marrow.

A hearty French stew of marinated chicken, braised in red wine with mushrooms, onions, and bacon.

Tender beef fillet is wrapped with mushroom duxelles, crepes, ham and puff pastry, then baked until golden brown.

I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone who genuinely loves Christmas pudding. Growing up, it always felt more like a ritual than a treat. In my house, my grandad made it entertaining, his one festive responsibility was hiding coins in the pudding, ranging from 2p to £2. Every bite was a gamble, as you’d crunch down on a coin when you least expected it. A memorable tradition, but the pudding itself? Perhaps not worth the six-week wait it takes to prepare. The croquembouche however, a showstopping French dessert traditionally served at weddings, featuring delicate choux buns filled with silky vanilla cream. Its towering, tree-like shape makes it the perfect festive centrepiece. It still has the nostalgic crunch of my families Christmas pudding, but I’d take the crunch of caramel over a coin any day. Yes, it takes some time and effort, but trust me, it’s much quicker than six weeks, and is a truly memorable dessert.

Pommes boulangère is a dish so special that it deserves a spot on your Christmas table. This recipe comes from the classic but is closer to a hybrid between a cottage pie and boulangère. This dish is most commonly served with lamb, but Christmas is no time for lamb! I love a roast rib of beef at Christmas – years of dry, almost crumbling turkey breast have scarred me. My first job in London we roasted 3 whole ribs of beef a day, we were taught to remove the rib caps before roasting, and so, of course this is my preferred technique. The cap is a delicious cut, in this recipe it’s marinated in red wine and slowly cooked like you would for a bourguignonne, the braised beef paired up with slowly caramelised onions and sliced potatoes is a version I think is more delicious than the original! That being said, if you aren’t having beef and want to give this a go, drop the rib cap and follow the recipe for a more classic version. There are a few things to get ready but again this can be completely finished the day before and just warmed up on Christmas day.

The oven is never big enough at Christmas, at least in my house anyway. Playing oven Tetris, trying to squeeze everything in is part of every Christmas day. As much as I enjoy the games, a vegetable dish that can be prepared ahead of time and cooked on the stove during the big day is no bad thing. Café de Paris butter is a great compound butter which is normally served with steaks and shellfish, but it’s particularly special on these braised wintery greens.

When it’s the time of year for mushrooms, this sauce is always on the go in my house. I love it with a pan fried chicken breast and of course some mash, it’s a great, simple recipe that is quick to whip up.

It wouldn’t be Christmas without a glazed gammon, would it? And there is no need to complicate things. No intricate scoring needed, no need to place an individual clove in each square before roasting. Who started this clove thing? It’s a bit like when you’re eating a nice curry and you crunch through a whole cardamon seed, definitely not enjoyable. Who wants the cloves? Just give me thick slices of sweet, smoky, salty ham. Mustard is a must, sweetness is needed, marmalade is the go-to in my house, and lots of black pepper to finish things off. Go big on your ham, its great cold on Boxing day, or with a fried egg and some chips, in a left-over turkey pie, in a baguette with lots of butter and some cornichon, I can go on…