Walnut bread and baked beans

For everybody, there is a food that hits the spot. Not so much comfort food, but the sort of food that tells you you're home even if you're not.

In Mistmantle, for Urchin and Crispin it's walnut bread. Padra's not that fussed, as long as it's fish. Hope likes berries the way his mum does them. Brother Fir's sweetest memories are linked with Kingsmantle Cake and Filbert likes the kind of cordial that brings tears to his eyes. Sepia is very quiet about what she likes, but hazelnuts are a favourite.

For most of my family, the classic Sunday roast dinner is 'home'. Pasta with some veg and cheese works for me, and is what we're probably having tonight, Tony, if you're reading this. Fish and chips, of course, but it has to taste the way it used to, eaten with the fingers on Bonfire Night. And you can't beat buttered toast, especially with a good book. (Don't eat the book.)

For Dr Who, famously, it was fish fingers and custard.

Any advance?