Michelle Darmody: Cooking for party season

Party season is upon us and today’s recipes are all designed to help you impress any visitors. Sausage rolls and smoked salmon both remind me of Christmases gone by. Both were always in our house at this time of year.

Sausage rolls would be eaten as soon as they came out of the oven — small hands juggling the still warm pastry and biting into clouds of steam, we convinced ourselves they were cool enough to eat.

The sausage rolls listed here are a twist on the more conventional roll, the addition of garlic and chilli to the sausage meat adds extra flavour and the poppy seeds add bite to the buttery pastry.