To prepare apple puff pastries, you can peel the apples (1) or wash them to use with the skin. Cut them in half ... Roll out the puff pastry on the work surface (8) and cut it into 4 rectangles ...

Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Lightly flour a work surface and roll out the puff pastry to 30x20cm/12x8in. Remove the skin from the sausages and spread the sausage meat over the pastry ...

Roll out the puff pastry so it is a bit larger than the pan ... Trim the aubergines, use a peeler to remove some of the skin in strips and slice the flesh into 2.5cm slices.

This easy puff-pastry tart can take any seasonal vegetables ... (discard the thyme stalks and pop the garlic out of its skin). Increase the oven temperature to 200C/400F/Gas 6.