RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Basil panna cotta

  Garrey Dawson welcomes the beginning spring with this sweet and creamy dessert infused with fresh basil

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  Venison en croute with winter vegetables

  Elspeth McNaughton wraps venison fillets in mushrooms and haggis in this very Scottish dish

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  Egg and nut-free American pancakes

  Alice Sherwood makes delicious allergy-free American pancakes that all the family will love

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  Italian antipasti plate

  For a fabulous couldn't-be-easier starter, do an Italian job and simply buy in some deli-delicious goodies, as Jo Pratt suggests

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  Richmond maids of honour

  Supposedly invented in Henry VIII’s court, these little puffed pastry tarts have been seducing people since the sixteenth century - from Eleanor Smallwood

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  White chocolate truffles

  Harry Eastwood's tea-scented truffles look gorgeous rolled in cocoa powder, pink icing sugar or vivid green pistachios

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  Duck with parsnips, pomegranate and vin santo sauce

  Aaron Craze serves succulent Gressingham duck in a sweet-savoury sauce with honey-roasted roots

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  Bubble and squeak

  Use up your leftover cabbage and make James Martin's dead-easy classic recipe of crisp potato cakes

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  Chicken caesar salad

  Paul Rankin turns a classic caesar salad into a main course with delicious herb-crusted chicken

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  French fish soup

  This stunning seafood soup from Ed Baines includes a veritable feast of fish, and presents the perfect way to feed a crowd