RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Pomegranate, orange and mint salad

  Ainsley Harriot's salad makes a refreshing starter on a hot day - add a crumbling of Feta cheese for a more substantial meal

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  Easter orange cake with lemon icing

  Instead of an overload of chocolate or crème eggs, try Tana Ramsay’s light cake for afternoon tea this Easter, complete with adorable shredded wheat birds’ nests

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  Blind scouse with herb dumplings

  A Liverpudlian bean and vegetable soup with dumplings from The Vegetarian Society

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  Lamb kofta with herby couscous

  Bring a taste of the Middle East to your table with these cumin-scented koftas, served with coriander and parsley couscous

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  Trippa alla parmigiana

  Matthew Fort makes a treat out of tripe, with this Italian-based recipe using Parmesan cheese

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  Chocolate and vanilla marble cake

  This classic is made using a basic Madeira cake recipe, and Rachel Allen’s version is excellent served with icing sugar or hot chocolate sauce

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  Roast duck and gravy

  Trina Hahnemann makes fresh duck stock for a delicious gravy and stuffs whole duck with prunes and apple for a great alternative to turkey for Christmas dinner

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  Fish linguine

  This tasty fish dish from Jamie Oliver uses red mullet flavoured with lemon zest, garlic and white wine to create a simple quick supper.

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  Pork belly with chutney

  Peppery watercress and tart gooseberries are perfectly matched with melt-in-the-mouth pork in Matt Tebbutt’s weekend main course

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  Baked rice pudding with poached rhubarb

  Michael Caines shares a warming, and quintessentially English, dessert from his childhood