RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Spatzle with chicken, trevisse and garlic butter

  Oliver Rowe shares an easy recipe for a traditional egg pasta dish from southern Germany. The richness is off-set by trevisse, a bitter vegetable similar to chicory

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  Baby squid with smoked garlic aioli

  Ben Tish tops a salad of pretty marmonde tomatoes and lovage leaves with fried baby squid and a dollop of smoked garlic aioli

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  Honey roast duck confit with tomato beans

  James Martin gives rich duck confit a mouth-watering bite with piquant red wine sauce and serves it with tasty tomato and butterbeans

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  Pasta with meatballs and tomato sauce

  Francesca Contini makes a traditional Italian dish of tagliatelle with mince balls using home-made pasta

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  Apple and plum crumble

  Sweet, cinnamon-scented apples and juicy plums are topped with crisp oat crumble in this rustic dessert from Jane Wiseman and Kathy Finkin

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  Rocket rolls

  A simple canapé with a big wow factor from Gee Charman

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  Teisen lap cake

  Matt Tebbutt cooks up a Welsh speciality of warm sultana-studded cake with lavender honey-baked figs

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  English apple and walnut strudel

  The word for strudel literally means 'whirlpool' in German representing the layers of thin dough swirled around the spiced fruit filling. Try Jun Tanaka's British take on the dish

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  Chilli and herb cajun cornbread

  Try Ainsley Harriot's version of an all-American classic - it tastes best warm out of the oven, but can be made up to one day in advance and stored in an airtight container

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  Stuffed sea bream

  Sea bream is great for stuffing and baking whole; Aldo Zilli doesn’t disappoint with his Parma ham, mozzarella and anchovy-stuffed bream