WE may all feel replete after days of turkey and Christmas pud, but look ahead and think of tasty dishes to prepare in 2012.

An excellent book, 'Born to Cook Angel Food', helps us make the choices, details some imaginative dishes and has been published to raise funds for Save the Children.

Written by Joyce Molyneux and her friend, chef and writer Gerard Baker, it ranges from delicious soups such as chilled Andalusian almond and grape to what sounds a classically English dish of braised partridge with cabbage, sausage and bacon to a sweet of apple and cinnamon tart tatin. That's just a sample of one mouthwatering combination that would have dinner guests longing for a return visit!

Joyce Molyneux now 80, owned the Carved Angel in Dartmouth for 20 years. Prue Leith says in a foreward to the book that if anyone was born to cook, Joyce Molyneux was. The book is, she says, 'admirably eclectic'. and a 'bible'.

'It has everything you might want in it — instructions for simple tasks like using split peas and making chutney, to grilling lobster or prepping lambs' sweetbreads to nestle seductively in a puff pastry case, wallowing in a sorrel cream sauce. O yum.'

Most people would buy the book because they are keen cooks, says Prue Leith — 'Personally, I want to cook everything in it.'

The book is dedicated to Meriel Matthews, of Somerset, and is the result of six months' work by a small but dedicated team she leads to raise funds for Save the Children.

'Born to Cook Angel Food' is published by Adam White, price £14.95.

It is being sold by Save the Children volunteers countrywide and via http://www.borntocookangelfood.co.uk">www.borntocookangelfood.co.uk

COLIN BRENT