RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Quick chicken and mushroom pie

  For a quickly prepared meal try James Martin's tasty pie, which uses shop-bought foodstuffs to great effect

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  Basil and peanut butter pancakes

  Make pancakes into a sophisticated dessert with Emily Ludolf’s basil, ricotta and peanut butter version, sandwiched together with peppered strawberry jam

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  Louisiana flank steak gumbo

  Sinn Louis cooks for a crowd with a medley of meats and spices - her tasty spin on American-style Gumbo

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  Moroccan fish cakes with hot pepper sauce

  Gurnard, a firm, white-fleshed fish, combines with harissa (a hot chilli paste) and other Moroccan flavourings in Diana Henry’s extra spicy fish cakes.

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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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  Spiced crème brûlée with coffee syrup

  Instead of the traditional crunchy top, Tom Aikens adorns fragrant baked custard with a dark, sticky sauce

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  Spaghetti with monkfish and clams

  An easy seafood sauce that can be made while the pasta is cooking, from Arthur Potts Dawson

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  Parmesan Rooster Potatoes

  For deliciously crisp-fried potatoes, indulge your tastebuds and make this simple recipe by Andrew Fairlie

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  Lime cake with Greek yogurt sorbet

  Andi Peters conjures the flavours of the Mediterranean with this refreshing citrus cake and tangy yoghurt sorbet

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  Venison steaks with beetroot and horseradish pesto

  From A Cook's Tour of Scotland by Sue Lawrence. The contrasting flavours of venison and beetroot are a match made in heaven. The pesto can be made a day or so in advance