Autumn food

Sugar and spice: autumn baking

Put the oven on for five seasonal treats, including ginger-cider cake, feta and cherry cookies and pumpkin buns

Big autumn cooking calls for big wines that hold their own

Sherry, barolo, chenin blanc – rich pickings for cool evenings

Kitchen diary: celebrate apple season with puff pastry dumplings

English apples and stilton cheese are one of autumn’s unbeatable flavour combinations

Midweek dinner: beetroot and brown lentils

A warming, spicy and aromatic autumn lentil dish

Kitchen diary: sweet tarts for cold days

The drop in temperature creates an urge to turn up the oven and start baking

Midweek treat: pear and chocolate crumble

Sumptuous ripe pears meet dark chocolate under a crunchy crumble

Kitchen diary: an indulgent roast pheasant

Sometimes you feel the need for a lunch of sweet, rich meat and vegetables