Intro -- title -- contents -- introduction -- sleep-in food -- the perfect date and banana porridge -- mushrooms on toast -- breakfast semolina -- corned beef hash -- honeyed breakfast polenta -- yoghurt pancakes with drunken brown sugar salted pears -- cardamom-scented rice pudding with baked rhubarb -- wilted cabbage, garlic and bacon with hot English mustard -- roasted onions and goat's cheese baked custard -- warm spiced apple juice -- spiced hot chocolate -- cosy lunches -- beer, cheese and onion soup -- cawl (welsh leek soup) -- sausage and white bean soup -- michelle's sweet spiced oxtail and parsnip soup -- pea, ham and lemon soup -- mussels with white wine and chorizo -- pumpkin and meatball risotto -- semolina gnocchi -- pasta e fagioli -- cabbage and speck risotto -- pasta e ceci -- buckwheat pasta with potato, taleggio and sage -- vodka-cured blue eye potato fish cakes -- taragna (buckwheat polenta) -- white wine roasted chicken -- rib-sticking dinners -- cottage pie with mustard cheese topping -- oven-baked pasta with rabbit ragu -- bratwurst with braised Lilliput lentils -- pork and potato goulash -- stout, beef shin and mushroom pie -- pork chops baked with stout and mustard -- pot-roast quail with pomegranate -- sticky beef ribs -- chicken tagine with green olives and quince -- not your ordinary meatloaf -- sicilian-style braised lamb shoulder with wild fennel and potato -- lamb breasts with capers, tomato and anchovies -- casserole chicken with white wine, mushrooms and sage -- corned beef with horseradish sauce -- ross's twice-cooked pork shoulder -- puddings and sweet things -- steamed cumquat marmalade pudding -- caramel pear upside-down cake -- date, honey and ginger cake -- brown sugar hazelnut biscuits -- eccles cakes -- a very good, very chocolaty chocolate cake -- bakewell tart -- chocolate, banana and honey pie.

apple and sour cream slice -- exceptionally good brownies -- peanut and chocolate chip biscuits -- baked apples with dates and brown sugar -- jam tart -- macadamia and golden syrup butternut biscuits -- chelsea buns with dates, treacle and walnuts -- index -- acknowledgments -- copyright.