RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Liver and onions with bacon

  Sheila Day serves this great British favourite alongside creamy mash and lightly buttered carrots

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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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  Raspberry lemonade

  This beautiful pink drink from Diana Henry is the perfect non-alcoholic cocktail for summer parties

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  Seafood bruschetta on Irish soda bread

  An unctuous spring onion butter sauce adds a rich dimension to Paul Rankin’s dish – stir in a splash of cream for extra decadence!

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  Chocolate pistachio truffles

  Clodagh McKenna was taught this delicious recipe by a chocolatier from the area where she lives in Italy

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  Crisp bacon salad

  A honey, lime juice and sesame oil dressing gives Gary Rhodes' bacon salad a South East Asian twist

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  Moussaka

  A deliciously satisfying main course from James Martin featuring minced lamb, aubergines, and spices topped with a mouth-watering cheese sauce

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  Seared Cornish squid with chorizo

  Paul Merrett cooks a tapas-style dish of seared Cornish squid with spicy sausage

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  Courgette 'spaghetti'

  Gary Rhodes serves thin strips of courgette with a creamy beenleigh blue cheese sauce

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  Torta di pesche

  Theo Randall’s recipe for a sweet and refreshing peach and vanilla pastry encapsulates the taste of summer