RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Parsnip crisps with sea salt

  Mark Hix’s vegetable crisps are great as snacks, or to serve as an accompaniment to game birds

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  Middle Eastern falafel with fresh tomato sauce

  These falafels are great stuffed into pitta bread and smothered in fresh tomato sauce for a sure-to-please vegetarian dish

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  Plain paratha (lightly fried bread)

  Discover just how delicious a home-made paratha can taste with Vicky Bhogal's recipe for these classic Indian flat breads

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  Sweet and sour fish for children

  Annabel Karmel's tasty fish dish and is good served on a bed of fluffy white rice - flake the fish and mix with the rice for small children

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  Russian wild mushroom soup with farro

  With its Russian origins, Diana Henry’s hearty mushroom soup is sure to hit the spot on a freezing day

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  Melon balls

  Threading fruit onto a straw adds oodles of child appeal.

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  Gnocchi with Gorgonzola

  From Giorgio Locatelli, delicious home-made potato gnocchi in a creamy gorgonzola sauce

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  Christmas Waldorf salad with grilled goats’ cheese

  This Women’s Institute salad is a perfect beginning to the Christmas meal - it is light, colourful and most of it can be prepared in advance

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  Barbecued vegetable antipasti

  Arthur Potts Dawson grills vegetables and mushrooms on the barbie for a lovely smokey note

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  Sweet chilli and cranberry glazed ham with cheesy leeks

  Merrilees Parker makes a gorgeous glazed ham, served with cheesy leek and parsley mash