For years British and Irish cuisine meant tasteless overboiled mush and stodge. But food in the UK and Eire has come a long way since then, with better ingredients and regional specialties to suit every taste. Discover 5 great reasons to eat British then try these great recipes

English eats

• Discover the best regional delicacies and make a traditional three-course feast
• Recipe: Steak and Kidney Pie
• Recipe: Homemade Fish and Chips
• Recipe: Pork Chops with Sage and Apple Sauce
• Recipe: Rump Steak with Stilton and Walnut Sauce
• Recipe: Lancashire Hotpot
• Recipe: Eton Mess or Strawberry and Raspberry Fool
• Recipe: Bakewell tart

Scottish scoffs

• Pick of the produce and a classic meal
• Recipe: Cock-a-Leekie soup
• Recipe: Cullen Skink Soup
• Recipe: Cured Salmon with Dill and Yoghurt
• Recipe: Haggis with Bashed Neeps and Champit Tatties
• Recipe: Pheasant in Whisky and Cream Sauce
• Recipe: Salmon Fish Pie
• Recipe: Tipsy Laird
• Recipe: Cranachan

• What to eat when in Wales
• Recipe: Welsh rarebit
• Recipe: Leek and Potato Soup
• Recipe: Leg of Welsh Lamb with Honey, Cider and Rosemary
• Recipe: Minty Lamb Burgers with Gooey Cheese
• Recipe: Leek Flan
• Recipe: Welsh Cakes with Honeyed Apples and Caerphilly Cream

The grub of the Irish

• Plan an Irish dinner party
  
• Make celeb chef Richard Corrigan's St Patrick's Day menu
• Recipe: Irish cream - DIY Baileys
• Recipe: Irish Cheese Scones
• Recipe: Dublin Coddle
• Recipe: Irish Stew
• Recipe: Winter Pudding