A wonderful alternative to the usual Sunday roast centrepiece, try this beautiful spring salad of rare roasted topside of beef, with radicchio, hazelnuts, and parmesan.

If you are looking for something fun to do with salt beef, you’ve come to the right place. Add a couple of fried eggs, and you have a perfect weekend brunch.

This is a super simple recipe and results in what feels like a wholesome and restorative soup. The shin is a great cut for this as it can resist a long simmer.

A dish of great elegance and self-assurance if your looking to eschew the more traditional roast dinner garnishes. A little overdramatic? Wait until you try it.

This is a classic bistro dish and sits nicely with pommes frites or crunchy roast potatoes cooked with duck fat and garlic. A glass or two of Côtes-du-Rhône would be a good idea too.

With all the bone and richness that these ribs have, it is worth the trouble to braise them to deliver a good and tasty liquor with which a sauce can be made.

Taking the idea of mushrooms growing out on the moorland where the cattle stamp between the junipers and here we go.

Beef ossobuco is often referred to braised beef shanks, a mouth-watering Italian comfort recipe traditionally made using veal. It’s a simple slow cooker dish that is delicious all year round.

I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to get this recipe off my local Thai restaurant for some years now. Next time or she is not here today is always the evasive answer despite our apparent friendship. So if I half think I know what I’m talking about, then here is my version of how it’s done! But for comparing both side by side, pretty close would be my happy conclusion. The crispy onions are my addition.

Curry dishes are hugely popular in Jamaica, thanks to the indentured servants to who arrived after emancipation in the early 19th century to make up the labour shortfall once slavery had been abolished. Curry goat and curry chicken are the best-known dishes, but Curry Oxtail is a close contender. It’s a stunning dish, one that is best started a few days before you intend to eat it.