RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Oriental chicken salad

  Bursting with zesty Asian flavours, Tamasin Day Lewis's mouth-watering salad makes an excellent starter or light supper

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  Fillet steak with whisky cream

  Sue Parker-Roberts uses soya cream to enrich her mustard, whisky and red wine sauce

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  Roast rack of pork with crackling

  Galton Blackiston adds lemon, garlic and sage to classic roast pork - for really top-notch crackling, look for dark, dry skin when buying pork

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  Cashel blue and port dip

  A creamy dip from Clodagh McKenna, delicious served with breadsticks, fennel, celery or wedges of pears

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  Vodka, fizz and lemon slush (lemon colonello)

  Try out this lip-smacking concoction from Liz Franklin's Ice Cream

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  Barmbrack

  Caroline Workman's wonderfully moist fruit bread is one of Northern Ireland's most popular traditional specialities

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  Crispy duck salad

  Aaron Craze takes the stodge out of traditional crispy duck pancakes and pairs the meat with a refreshing salad and a zingy dressing

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  Javanese beef rendang

  Nancy Lam makes a rich coconut curry from Indonesia – try and make it the day before as flavours improve overnight

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  Vegetarian Christmas pudding

  In Roopa Gulati's suet-free Christmas pudding, vegetarians get to enjoy all the highlights of Christmas without compromising on any of the taste

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  Herb marinated peppers on bruschetta with home made pesto

  This terrific trio of recipes from Mike Robinson makes a great canapé combination for all manner of occasions