• Such an elegant dish must take hours to make, right? Wrong! This fillet in red wine takes 10 minutes and is bursting with flavour and elegance. This is a classic Venetian way of preparing fillet – the secret is the quality of the meat and red wine. Patata Anna would make the perfect side dish. Recipe by Omar Scarabello  Photograph by Curtis Gallon 

    True to the standard French culinary practice, plum tarte tatin is baked upside-down so that the fruit becomes caramelised in a sinfully delicious combination of butter and sugar. For something that looks so elegant, it’s surprisingly easy to make. Serve it as impressive finale at a dinner party. Recipe by Sarah Dall 

    Print Recipe Smoked chicken and melon cups Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 45 minutes Ingredients 20 small lettuce leaves 2 smoked chicken breasts, diced ¼ spanspek melon, peeled, seeded and diced ¼ honeydew melon, peeled, seeded and diced 4 spring onions, finely sliced 1 red chilli, seeded and diced 30ml fresh coriander, chopped juice of 1