RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Pan-fried sea bass with sformato di carote

  Giancarlo Caldesi accompanies tender white fish fillets with plump cherry tomatoes and a light and creamy carrot bake

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  Home-made pot noodles

  It only takes a few minutes to make your own! It's fun to serve them in a cup, a bit like pot noodles, from Annabel Karmel

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  Warm rhubarb and hazelnut streusel pizza

  Paul Rankin’s sweet pizza is made with a puff pastry base, roasted rhubarb and a crunchy hazelnut and mascarpone topping

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  Lentil soup

  Bursting with vitamins and flavour, Melanie Sykes cooks up the ultimate healthy winter soup.

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  Jam and custard doughnuts

  Paul Merrett makes deliciously light doughnuts combining the traditional flavours of jam and custard

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  Pan-fried halibut with glazed carrots

  James Martin serves this meaty-textured delicately flavoured fish with delicious slightly sweet glazed carrots in this easy recipe

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  Perfect pesto

  Matt Tebbutt’s secret to perfect pesto is Sardo cheese, which gives a stronger, better flavour

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  Christmas kiss

  Get your party off to a good start with Diana Henry's festive cocktail brimming with champagne, cranberry juice and Cointreau

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  Sausages with salami and lentils

  Nigel Slater makes a hearty rough-edged casserole that gives the impression of having been cooked for hours but is pretty much ready to eat in 45 minutes

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  Lemon rice pudding with confit of plums

  Tom Aikens takes an old favourite right out of the nursery with this elegant and oh-so-grown-up dessert