As summer drifts away and the glorious hazy light of autumn takes its place, thoughts and tummies are filled with the fruits of harvest time – and there is a lot you can create with nature’s bounty. In his classic seasonal cookery book, The Kitchen Diaries (Fourth Estate, £30), Nigel Slater talks of warming autumnal spices, such as cinnamon and ginger, as being his ‘first medicinal port of call’; while chef Valentine Warner, known for cooking with seasonal produce, provides great ideas on his website valentinewarner.com. It’s time to slow-cook easy one-pot recipes that will welcome you home, fill your belly and warm your soul.