Countryfile and Escape To The Country presenter Jules Hudson is an avowed foodie, as his columns in Welsh Border Life often reveal. And having been invited round for tea and cake in the fabulous kitchen of his Herefordshire home, we can see why!

A Sunday classic, truly relished

“As a child, I developed a passion for mint sauce such that these days I insist on having it on the table whatever flavour our roast is. All those conventions that say otherwise have long since been filed in the bin marked madness. My parents used to take me to a restaurant close to where I grew up in Dedham, a village made famous by landscape painter John Constable. Lamb was my favourite thing on the menu, but as much for the fresh sauce they made as the lamb itself.