Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Dressed to Impress

TV chef James Martin serves up home-cooked recipes that look like restaurant dishes, including a simple beef wellington and a show-stopping passion fruit delice.

James shows how anyone can impress their dinner party guests with some simple home-cooked recipes that look like restaurant dishes. He cooks a stylishly simple beef wellington, a show-stopping passion fruit delice, and a clever custard souffle using ready-made custard as a cheat.

Historian Ivan Day looks at macedoine jelly, a Victorian dessert with the real wow factor. Norwegian artisan producer Ole Hansen explains how his family's passion for perfect smoked salmon led him to start his London-based business.

44 minutes

Last on

Thu 26 May 2022 14:15

More episodes

Next

You are at the last episode

See all episodes from James Martin: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Comforts

Music Played

  • Lucius

    Turn it Around

  • Jim Noir

    Eanie Meany

  • Quantic

    Common Knowledge

  • Leanne Mitchell

    Pride

  • Florence + The Machine

    Between Two Lungs

  • Olly Murs

    Dance With Me Tonight

  • Jack Costanzo

    Twang

  • Plan B

    She Said

  • Henry Purcell

    Behold I Bring You

  • The City Waites

    Cuckolds All In A Row

  • David Lloyd

    Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas Act 3: 2. Come away fellow sailors

  • Nerina Pallot

    Put Your Hands Up

  • Adele

    Cold Shoulder

  • Microphone

    Example

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Walking on Water

  • ¸éö²â°ì²õ´Ç±è±è

    Royksopp Forever

  • Vance Joy

    Riptide

  • Spiller

    Cry Baby

  • The Luminites

    Do Something

  • Olly Murs

    Oh My Goodness

  • Snow Patrol

    Called Out In the Dark

  • Josh Osho

    Freewheel

  • Lucius

    Turn It Around

  • Jim Noir

    Eanie Meany

  • Florence + The Machine

    Between Two Lungs

  • Olly Murs

    Dance With Me Tonight

  • Olly Murs

    Anywhere Else

  • Plan B

    She Said

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Walking On Water

  • Vance Joy

    Riptide

  • Olly Murs

    Oh My Goodness

  • Snow Patrol

    Called Out In The Dark

  • Josh Osho

    Freewheel

Food producers

The food producers featured in this episode are:
  • Paul Metcalf from Natural Wight Mushrooms, Isle of Wight
  • Ole Hansen from Hansen & Lydersen Ltd. London

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter James Martin
Executive Producer Karen Plumb
Series Producer Rosemary Edwards
Director David Robertson
Participant Ivan Day
Participant Ole Hanssen

Broadcasts

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Comforts at Christmas

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Comforts at Christmas

TV chef James Martin gets ahead for Christmas, providing lots of clever tips and tricks