Fiona Hugues

This banana bread recipe is perfect when you've got a bowl full of sweet, ripe bananas. Serve with homemade sweet nut butter and toasted peanuts for a simply delicious bite with your next cuppa

Hot and hand-warming, this pork pie recipe creates a savoury snack similar to tuck shop sausage rolls but without the grease and horrid herbs (and with a few little tweaks to smarten them up). Photography by Jani Shepherd/Gatherum Collectif

Sparkly with a quiet edge of sweet ginger, this ginger Negroni fizz recipe is the traditional Negroni cocktail's timid cousin and just the thing to sip as you while away a golden afternoon. Photography by Jani Shepherd/Gatherum Collectif

This recipe sees piles of buttermilk pancakes topped with juicy tinned plums and cherries and slathered with vanilla-laced maple syrup. Serve with chocolate whipped cream for a dreamy breakfast or brunch. Photography by Jani Shepherd/Gatherum Collectif

This kumara fritter recipe is a slightly healthier version of everyone's breakfast fave - hash browns. Serve with salmon, herby crème fraîche and avocado. A soft-boiled egg is a good addition, too. Photography by Jani Shepherd/Gatherum Collectif

Blokes dig this breakfast recipe! It’s one hell of a hangover cure, especially with sensational slabs of crispy, thick-cut bacon. Serve with toasted sourdough and your favourite hot sauce. Photography by Jani Shepherd/Gatherum Collectif

This crumpet recipe is a great kitchen hack when you just don't have time to be mucking around with crumpet rings at breakfast or brunch. Just slop the mix into your pan and away you go. Photography by Jani Shepherd/Gatherum Collectif

Fiona Hugues has created a Croque Madame recipe that's a little fancier than the classic, with a couple of extras like wilted spinach, seeded mustard and gorgeous little quail eggs. Photography by Jani Shepherd/Gatherum Collectif

This cowboy pie recipe is a great way to enjoy the late-autumn abundance of fat, luscious pears, and the nut crumb topping is easy to prepare. For a real treat, serve with creamy vanilla ice cream. Photography by Jani Shephered/Gatherum Collectif

There's just something about this magnificent cut of beef. The bone adds so much flavour, and when it's marinated in harissa and roasted perfection in this recipe, it'll have you weak at the knees. Photography by Jani Shephered/Gatherum Collectif