RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Grilled cod with avocado butter

  Mitch Tonk slathers grilled cod in an avocado and caper butter – great with curly kale or purple-sprouting broccoli, depending on the season

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  Thai green prawn curry

  Amoy's Chef Yang shares the cheat’s way to add fragrant Thai flavours to stir-fried vegetables and prawns

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  Bouillabaisse

  Typically Mediterranean, Rick Stein's tasty mix of fish is cloaked in a deliciously aromatic broth

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  Kasha salad

  Rose Prince’s healthy buckwheat salad is the perfect accompaniment to cold cooked chicken

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  Roast chestnuts with vanilla and star anise

  Warm up on bonfire night with Matt Tebbutt's hot nuts

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  Beef stir fry with pak choi and red peppers

  Gary Rhodes' speedy stir fry with beef, pak choi and red peppers makes a great mid-week supper

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  Smoked haddock chowder

  Ainsley Harriott makes this New England speciality grander by adding prawns or cooked mussels

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  Snow pancakes with rum butter

  If the weather conditions are right, Joanne Wilson uses snow in her batter for a lighter pancake. Serve them with lashings of rum butter for an indulgent treat. This pud is one her nan used to make at weekends...

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  Patina of asparagus

  Sally Grainger’s recipe for asparagus custard, adapted from the ancient Apicius collection of Roman recipes, is surprisingly delicate and unsurprisingly delicious

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  Crab cakes with lime mayonnaise

  Galton Blackiston serves up an elegant starter of fried coriander crab cakes with a swirl of brown crab meat and a dollop of zesty mayonnaise