The Best Dishes Ever

Preparation is everything with these dishes that are really good to make in advance. The menu includes Mary Berry's fresh fruit salad, James Martin's delicious chicken stew, the Hairy Bikers autumn pudding, Nigel Slater's bean soup and Nigella Lawson's ice-cream cake.

Ainsley Harriott is serving up a family-sized slab of chocolate recipes guaranteed to please the nation's chocoholics. The menu includes the Greedy Italians' classic chocolate pudding, the Hairy Bikers `world's best' brownies, a chocolate mousse from Raymond Blanc, James Martin's marshmallows with chocolate dipping sauce and a surprise from Nigella Lawson - chocolate pasta.