RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Roast and confit lamb

  Sweet fresh peas and broad beans are the perfect spring accompaniments to Chris McGowan’s lamb cooked two ways

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  Cornish smoked mackerel with salsify

  Homemade pickled ginger peps up Arthur Potts Dawson's simple fish dish

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  Russian-style salmon pie

  Matt Tebbutt’s fish pie is a delicious combination of salmon, rice, mushrooms and caviar in a pastry crust

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  Ranch-style eggs (Huevos rancheros)

  This is the best-known breakfast egg dish in Mexico. Rick Stein still likes to cook this on a long Sunday morning after a particularly lively Saturday night.

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  Roasted Rooster Potatoes with Garlic and Rosemary

  Andrew Fairlie, well known chef at the Gleneagles hotel has developed this flavoursome recipe, highlighting the tasteful attributes of the Bartlett Rooster potato

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  Rice and peas

  Junior Francis shows Gary Rhodes how to make this traditional Caribbean dish, which is the perfect accompaniment to high spiced meat or poultry dishes. It should really be called rice and beans though, since there is not a pea in sight.

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  Salmon and smoked haddock fishcakes

  David Massey demonstrates the simple pleasure of a well-crafted fishcake using fish poached in milk with bay leaf

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  Dill sauce

  This healthy dill sauce is delicious with salmon or prawns, new potatoes and sugar snap peas - it also livens up a mixed leaf salad

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  Chocolate and vanilla semifreddo

  Angela Hartnett creates a truly indulgent layered ice cream cake, lightly flavoured with amaretto liqueur

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  Perfect mayonnaise

  Theo Randall demonstrates an alternative way to make this classic condiment … with a pestle and mortar