10 budget-busting Jack Monroe recipes
Jack Monroe: From soup to cookies, exclusive recipes from her book A Girl Called Jack
Leftover Christmas pudding recipe
Fruit squares will mop up your leftover pudding, mincemeat and cranberry sauce, says food blogger Miss South
Christmas taste test: puddings and pies
Signe Johansen, author of Scandicilous Baking rates seasonal cakes and desserts
Claire Ptak’s Californian Christmas recipes
Claire Ptak: A Christmas feast needn't just mean turkey with all the trimmings, so here are some tips from the west coast, including crab cakes, a spicy roast and pomegranate sugar pies
Recipes from Bruno Loubet’s new restaurant
From a corn and quinoa tamale to a chocolate brownie and pear tart, recipes from Bruno Loubet's new restaurant Grain Store. It's not vegetarian – but the veg gets equal star billing
Taste test: Christmas desserts
Eric Lannard, owner of Cake Boy in London, rates Christmas cake, mince pies, stollen, panettone and trifles
Seaside recipes: knickerbocker glory and cobb egg
Mark Hix's simple summer food recipes
Tomato bloody mary sorbet recipe
Jason Atherton's sorbet recipe, with gazpacho and salad, created for Observer Food Monthly
Rhubarb and custard choc ice
Marcus Wareing's dessert recipe, created to celebrate a decade of Observer Food Monthly
Coupe of strawberries on elderflower jelly with sorbet and champagne
Bruno Loubet's delicious dessert, created for Observer Food Monthly's 10th anniversary
Fergus Henderson’s exclusive recipes from the new St John Hotel
Fergus Henderson's bacon and beans, pike and leek pie, grilled steak and chips, and chocolate ice cream recipes from the St John Hotel menu
Jason Atherton: pudding recipes and fish recipes
The Pollen Street Social chef's desserts – and a few fish dishes too
Claire Ptak’s Christmas dessert recipes
The former Chez Panisse pastry chef Claire Ptak puts a delicious spin on seasonal favourites
Silvena Rowe’s meze recipes
The author of a stunning new book on eastern Mediterranean food reveals no-one makes rice of baklava better than her. Except, maybe, her father
A feast without meat
For non-meat eaters the old nut roast can wear a bit thin. Here are some delicious, different ideas for a meat-free Christmas feast from Sarah Raven