Nigel Barden served up tasty Jacobs ladder short rib of beef on Radio 2 Drivetime with Simon Mayo.

The ingredients are: 1.8kg Jacob’s Ladder short rib (cut into 7½cm pieces Roughly 2 per person), 1 x 120g chestnut or field mushrooms, 3 fat cloves of garlic, ginger, a thumb length (2”/5cm), or 1 tsp of ground ginger, 1tsp Chinese 5 Spice, or a mixture of ground spices, ½ tsp cinnamon, ¼ tsp nutmeg and ⅛ tsp clove, 80ml of sweet or dry sherry, or rice wine, 120ml soy sauce, 120ml water, 1 tbsp dark brown sugar and 2 tsp corn flour.