The spices bring out their natural oils and flavour, the chicken locks in the juices. I use chickpeas but I sometimes use cannellini beans, or a tin of mixed beans.

Add a bit of sunshine to a chilly, wintery week. It’s also deliciously moist with wonderful hints of cinnamon and nutmeg spices, and a dreamy creamy orange blossom frosting — utter heaven.

This Roast Tarragon Chicken with Chestnut Mushroom Risotto is great for serving to large gatherings of friends. The chicken is marinated in herbal tarragon and spicy mustard, and the creamy risotto acts as both a bed for the bird and a natural sauce. Made with milk from grass-fed cows, the Salted Butter helps bring out the flavor of both parts of this mouthwatering dish.

This recipe is such a fast and easy dish to create and a great way to use up any leftover roast butternut squash. Crumble in Cashel blue cheese, creamy and chalky in texture with a unique ashy, smoky flavour.

This classic version that I am sharing with you is made with good-quality beef broth or vegetable stock, caramelised onions, and topped with oozing Gruyère cheese croutons.

The juicy sweetness of blackberries with the sour cooking apples, soaking into the pork while it roasts is incredible. The apple crisps are so simple to make and look fabulous dotted around the serving dish.

Hearty Sweet Potato Dumplings with Sage Butter. The rich salted butter mixed with woody sage makes a flavourful sauce to pour over the dumplings. An ideal dish for a late-summer family meal.

A short butter pastry filled with juicy wild blackberries and infused with aromatic cinnamon and citrus lemon zest. Pastry can seem a bit daunting to many but this recipe is very easy to make. It’s a simple method, creaming all the ingredients together with a mixer and chilling in the fridge, so that it’s lovely and crumbly.