A seasonal Greenfeast

Cold weather calls for comfort-food polenta, cheese-bubbling veggie tart and warm spice cake that perfumes your home with its cosy magic. Get wrapped up in these three recipes from Nigel Slater’s new book Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter

Polenta, garlic and mushrooms by Nigel Slater: ‘Food to soothe and strengthen’. Picture: Jonathan Lovekin

Polenta, garlic, mushrooms

Soupy, starchy, nannying. Food to soothe and strengthen. Of the two main sorts of polenta, I like to use the coarse (bramata) here. The finer version will work, but the consistency is less satisfying and produces a thinner result.

You can omit the sage leaves if you wish – it is hardly the most useful herb to have in the house – but I often add just a few of them to ...