Orange flavoured ciambella with dark chocolate glaze is Italian ring-shaped breakfast cake. This one is made with olive oil.

Honey millet porridge for breakfast provides a wonderful variety from oats.

Beef and shiitake mushroom fried rice is the best dish you can make with the smallest piece of beef fillet or sirloin.

Banana and nut granola clusters, crunchy and fragrant homemade cereal for those who like it ultra-crisp.

Butter Stollen with smooth nut filling, traditional German Christmas Nussstollen.

Caribbean Christmas black cake with rum soaked fruit and burnt sugar flavour. It is the Jamaican cousin of British Christmas cake.

Butter Stollen, German Christmas bread, at its most indulgent: packed with fruit and almonds.

Gingerbread biscotti spiced with Christmas flavour, crunchy and dunkable, with mixed nuts and cinnamon sugar coating.

Marzipan truffles, chocolate covered balls of homemade marzipan, and the chocolate is also homemade! Vegan, easy and utterly delicious.

Boneless turkey breast fillet butterflied, stuffed and rolled up to a perfect roast joint for holiday. Did I say how easy it is to carve?

Simple potato soup with mushroom flavour is as warming and comforting as easy it is to make.

Potato babka is an unusual and tasty alternative to a boring nut roast, the vegetarian Christmas or Thanksgiving option.

Spooky meringue ghosts, little piles of meringue piped onto baking trays with painted eyes and mouths. Perfect Halloween cookies!

Sweetcorn tart with cheese topping on a crusty, cheesy base of pizza dough. Vegetarian and gorgeous, for lunch or dinner.

Cranberry and walnut bread made with fresh or frozen cranberries, chopped walnuts and orange juice and zest.

Halloween white chocolate zombie eyeballs – and they are the best ever white chocolate truffles.

Chicken with grapes and olives oven baked with a few chestnut mushrooms looks autumnal and tastes divine.