James Martin: Home Comforts

James prepares a perfect chicken and mushroom puff pastry pie and slow cooked spare ribs and Wiltshire microbrewer Alasdair Large visits the kitchen.

James prepares a warming beef and red wine pie, a tasty chicken fricassee and homemade marshmallows in chocolate dipping sauce, and meets the farmers producing salt marsh beef and one of the only raw chocolate makers in the UK.

James creates toad in the hole with onion gravy and blackberry and apple Millefeuille, and we meet the dedicated family of fish farmers who have been producing top quality trout for over 30 years.

James prepares a simple chicken escalope with lemon, nuts and thyme and an Icebox Chocolate cake that needs no cooking, and his neighbour, ex-Formula One driver Jody Scheckter drops in with buffalo mozzarella from his award-winning farm.

James prepares squid, a British tapas of chicken wings and wedges, and meets popcorn makers Catherine and Richard Furze.

James cooks jacket potato skins and a chocolate and clementine steamed pudding, and Gerard Baker prepares a popular medieval stew - hodge podge.