We’re nuts for almonds. Use them sliced, crushed or as almond meal in cakes, biscuits and slices – Saint Peter’s almond meringue with white peach caramel is a dream, as is the beautiful cardamom nut cake. For a showstopping vegetarian main, Ester’s roast cauliflower with almond sauce is hard to beat.

Buvette’s butterflied sand whiting with herb and almond butter

Honey and almond-milk blancmange with honey-roasted apricots

Curtis Stone’s strawberry and almond cheesecake

Self-saucing chocolate and almond milk pudding

Roasted cauliflower salad with yoghurt dressing and almonds

Rainbow trout with almonds, bacon and green beans

Saint Peter’s almond meringue with white peach caramel

Lemon curd and almond bread and butter pudding

Rocky road with almonds, goji berries and strawberries

Almond and hokey-pokey ice-cream sponge roll

Shane Delia: Autumn greens and beans, smoked almonds and garlic
