RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Cheese straws

  Michel Roux’s grown-up cheese straws can be made with emmenthal, parmesan or any other hard cheese and are flavoured with sweet paprika and cayenne pepper

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  Rabbit spring rolls

  Simon Rimmer puts the spring into these spring rolls with rabbit meat, served with a refreshing cabbage and apple salad

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  Aromatic pumpkin and chickpea stew

  Bill Granger combines pumpkin and chickpeas in a colourful and delicious vegetarian dish, fantastically simple to make

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  Roast rack of lamb with pinhead oatmeal crust

  Claire Macdonald cooks a delectable dinner party combo of mint hollandaise with succulent lamb rack in a crisp pepper-flecked oatmeal crust

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  Roast beef with yorkshire pudding and horseradish potato cake

  Brian Turner serves up traditional roast beef with puffy Yorkshire puds, flavour-packed potato cake and garlicky spring greens speckled with bacon

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  Vegetable coconut and peanut curry

  Tana Ramsay's creamy curry with sweet, chunky pieces of butternut squash makes a great meat-free main course

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  Bread sauce

  There's nothing like home-made bread sauce gently flavoured with cloves and nutmeg to jazz up a Sunday roast. From James Martin

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  Plum, damson and poppy seed sponge pudding

  For a cool autumn night, Martin Blunos creates the perfect steamed pudding, fragrant with plums and cinnamon

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  Rice pudding with boozy prunes

  Stewed in tea and Armagnac, prunes add a kick to Diane Johnson's traditional rice pudding

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  Gingerbread skeletons

  Cook up some scary snacks with Rachel Slack's skeletal gingerbread people, cats and dogs