RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Dressed crab with egg salad

  Elegant and simple, Michael Caines’ crab dish makes a great starter or light lunch dish

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  Cauliflower soup

  Add Arthur Potts Dawson’s classic soup to your list of easy winter favourites

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  Rabbit with oven-dried tomatoes

  Matt Tebbutt chooses farmed rabbit for its pale coloured flesh and chicken-like flavour in this Mediterranean-style main course dish

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  Hot buffalo southern fried chicken wings

  Charita Jones’s recipe for a North American favourite, spiced up with a special homemade Cajun seasoning, will be a sure-fire hit at any dinner party

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  Swiss chard and lentil salad

  Aaron Craze combines chard, chilli, garlic, green lentils and juicy queen olives in this stunning salad

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  Victoria sponge cake

  Feather light sponge and a fabulous filling mean Paul Hollywood's easy to make, classic cake is sure to become a favourite

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  Poppy seed cake with vanilla buttercream icing

  This fabulously rich cake from Rachel Allen is best eaten with lashings of the vanilla buttercream

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  'Caciucco' soup from Livorno

  Clodagh McKenna makes a hearty Italian fish and shellfish soup

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  The ultimate mojito

  Get the party started with Manuel Soro's classic Cuban cocktail featuring mint, lime and lots of rum

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  Ravioli with asparagus

  Aaron Craze cracks an egg into the centre of fresh ravioli to make an impressive pasta dish