Darina Allen: Three great cookbooks to buy and a recipe for Mary Berry’s humble pie

Everyone’s favourite cooking Grandma, Mary Berry has published a new ultimate stress-free cookbook with 120 brand new foolproof recipes.

Mary Berry's humble pie is hearty, warming and a real treat!

Want a little advice on how to use your book tokens after the festive season? Before Christmas, I got lots and lots of newly published cookbooks through the post, but I was so crazily busy that I just about managed to flick through them but didn’t manage to test anything from them until now.

Today some thoughts on three different books. The first one comes from Mark Moriarty, who very sweetly sent me a present of his first cookbook, Flavour with personal dedication, and a thank you for being an inspiration. How sweet is that? I was delighted to read that I was even a teensy bit of an inspiration to this super talented and thoroughly nice young man ... and wait till you see the photo of him and his cute little dog on the inside cover!