The Delicious Miss Dahl

Cookery series. Sophie Dahl revels in the joy of cooking for one on a purely selfish day. Her day begins at breakfast with her take on an omelette Arnold Bennett.

Cookery series. Sophie Dahl talks through dishes for the three stages of romance. On the first date, she recommends a dish including scallops and an Eton mess pudding.

Sophie Dahl cooks food that reminds her of her youth, including roasted tomato and thyme soup, orange and raspberry Victoria sponge, and crab, salmon and dill fishcakes.

It's a melancholic day so Sophie creates dishes that could cheer up Eeyore, starting with bubble and squeak cakes served with red onion gravy and a fried egg.

At the end of a rotten week Sophie's suggestion is an escapist weekend, in which she draws inspiration for her dishes from her foreign travels.

Sophie is in a celebratory mood - she is putting on a dinner party. The feast includes hot pink borscht served in a glass punch bowl and fresh oysters.