James Martin: Home Comforts

Long and lazy winter days are the perfect times to enjoy some indulgent home cooked meals and for James those are a perfect chicken and mushroom puff pastry pie and some slow cooked spare ribs.

Today James has the perfect antidote to the winter chill with his ultimate Comfort Food recipes.

There's a culinary twist on some of our favourite Mid Week Suppers today as James creates his own Toad in the Hole with Onion gravy and shows how simple it is to create a delicious blackberry and apple Millefeuille out of homemade puff pastry.

Today James proves beautiful home cooked recipes can be just as speedy as convenience food with a menu that includes a simple chicken Escalope with lemon, nuts and thyme and an Icebox Chocolate cake that needs no cooking.

A night in front of the TV calls for a tray of the best homemade treats so James is preparing squid with the ultimate dipping sauce as well as the perfect finger food -a British Tapas of chicken wings and wedges with his own tomato sauce.

In today's programme James cooks his favourite winter warmers including jacket potato skins hot from his own patio pizza oven and a chocolate and clementine steamed pudding.