Mary Berry Cooks

Mary shares a clever trick for making sandwiches in advance and also bakes bite-sized scones for a cream tea.

Mary Berry is in her kitchen at home cooking her favourite food. With her trademark warmth and common sense, she takes viewers step by step through delicious recipes for everyday and special occasions. In this series Mary reveals foolproof dishes for Sunday lunch, afternoon tea and weekday suppers. Plus she shares impressive but surprisingly easy recipes for parties and celebrations when there are more mouths to feed. In her calm and capable hands, cooking for guests has never been simpler. In this episode Mary shows how to cook dishes to impress guests at a dinner party without getting hot and bothered in the kitchen. These include two delicious canapés, a salmon and asparagus starter, a main course of guinea fowl and a decadent chocolate tart for pudding. Mary even has a trick for cooking steak ahead of time which guarantees perfect results.

Mary Berry takes us step by step through recipes for everyday and special occasions. Mary's trademark approach to home cooking shines through in every recipe. She uses easy-to-buy ingredients, keeps her instruction straightforward and instinctively knows what sort of food we like to eat at home. Her reliable and trusted recipes work every time. In the third episode of the series, Mary is back in her kitchen to cook her favourite meal, Sunday lunch. Three generations of her family are sitting down together to enjoy Mary's wonderful food. The star of the show is slow roast shoulder of lamb with rosemary and paprika rub, served with potato and fennel gratin. For pudding, Mary serves plum tarte tatin and a delicious fruit salad. All the Sunday lunch recipes can be prepared in advance, even yorkshire puddings, making for a relaxed and informal family get-together.

Mary Berry is cooking dishes for a family celebration and that means having enough to go round for a crowd of hungry guests. Mary makes cooking a buffet supper for a special occasion seem almost effortless, with recipes for beef and mushroom stew with mustard mash, salmon en croute with a foolproof salad, and chocolate and orange panna cotta. Plus, her meringue tranche with berries and cream is guaranteed to impress your friends and family.

Mary Berry is throwing a casual weekday supper. With lots of clever tips for making life easy in the kitchen, she reveals dishes made for sharing around the kitchen table with a few close friends. Her Mediterranean platter of houmous, bread sticks, roasted vegetables and a tomato and mozzarella salad is perfect food for sharing on a summer's evening. For hungry guests Mary offers lamb dhansak, or the ultimate in comfort food, cottage pie with dauphinoise potato topping. And for those occasions when you need to get food on the table fast, Mary has a pasta dish which takes just 15 minutes to make. She also shows how to make elderflower cordial and a crunchy apple crumble.

Mary has shown us how to cook Sunday lunches, afternoon teas and dinner parties. Now, in the final episode of the series, it's a summer party. For Mary's outdoor party, the dishes are best served cold: salmon fillets with herb sauce, ham with homemade chutney, and fillet of beef with garlic and mustard cream. To accompany the cold meats and fish there are two salads; fiery red rice, and broad bean and little gem. And what better way to finish off a summer lunch, and the series, than Mary's summer pudding.