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Pastrami-spiced pork ribs with potato salad and pickles recipe - For pastrami spice rub, crush whole spices and 1 tbsp sea salt with a mortar and pestle, then combine with paprika, cayenne and sugar.

A no-cook starter that's a little bit Mexican, a little bit Japanese and a lot of fun.

These tasty quesadillas are vegetarian but meat can easily be added to the recipe to keep carnivores happy. Serve for dinner, lunch or as a party snack.

Barbecued butterflied lamb leg with smoky eggplant recipe - Combine spices, garlic, lemon rind and oil in a small bowl, then rub mixture all over lamb, cover with plastic wrap and marinate for 3 hours or overnight.

Elegant and full of great textures, serve this dish at your next dinner party or quickly whip it up for a midweek meal. To keep things extra simple, strip the herb salad back to just two herbs.

There's not a lot of meat on quails so the best way to eat these is with your hands - pull them apart, dip them in the sauces and get a bit messy," says Mat Lindsay.

Using radicchio instead of butter lettuce leaves to wrap the pork adds a pleasing bitter touch, balancing the sweet pork and the spicy tofu. If bitterness isn't your thing, use cos leaves instead.

To add that hibachi flavour without the fuss, char the marinated chicken on a wire rack set over a gas flame instead of in a pan before you roast it (it will need a little longer in the oven).

Combining bacon, eggs, avocado and charred sourdough, this twist on a Caesar salad works as breakfast, lunch or dinner. The creamy avocado is a good foil for the smoky bacon and piquant anchovies.

Char-grilled sausages paired with a robust salad makes for a perfect autumn meal.