This unashamed cheat recipe is a hit with everyone who tries it. The little pasties are glazed with beaten egg and finished with fennel, poppy or sesame seeds, or a mixture. Good with a chunky tomato sauce or pickle, or a big crunchy salad. If you can’t find the unlikely sounding but quite excellent Eazy…

Gurnard is one of many superb but unfamiliar fish that in these post-Brexit days we should discover. It looks like red mullet with a big head so weighs badly on the slab but has a dense texture, good clean flavour and few bones. In Newlyn, where it’s prolific and where I saw it many years…

This is a variation on a theme, a favourite combination of creamy white beans, firm white fish and spicy chorizo. Here I’ve used butter beans added to a slop of diced tomato flavoured with a splash of white wine and plump little chorizo cooking sausages. Fillets of hake are then laid over the top, the…

I eat asparagus most days while our asparagus season reigns. Risotto is a perfect way of turning it into a glorious mid-week treat and adding torn leftover roast chicken towards the end, makes a very complementary addition. It’s not an occasion to hold back on butter and one to use freshly grated Parmesan. Special stock…