RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Ruby fruit salad

  Serve hot or cold for a deliciously healthy dessert.

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  Meatball and lovage soup (ciorba di perisoara)

  Frances Jones-Davies' soup brings out the musky, lemon flavours of this herb complementing the beef and vegetables

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  Red prawn curry

  Chilli, galangal and zesty kaffir lime create the distinctive Thai flavour in Caroline Hire's quick and easy curry

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  Proper 'old fashioned' pork pie

  This appetising traditional pork pie from Mike Robinson and Alan Haywood combines juicy pork and bacon in crisp golden pastry

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  Barbecue ribs

  Charita Jones’ ribs are hot, smoky and meltingly tender

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  Poached egg and lentils

  Matthew Fort's easy supper is the perfect budget dish - both nourishing and very cheap

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  Stewed apple with sweet ricotta and cobnuts

  Arthur Potts Dawson's simple dessert is a delightful contrast of textures and flavours that makes the most of a traditional Kentish nut crop

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  Pork cutlets with preserved peppers

  Cooked in sugar and vinegar, the preserved peppers in Gennaro Contaldo’s quick and simple tasty dish, really do give a kick to the pork

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  Grilled spiced red snapper

  Atul Kochar shares his recipe for bhuni machchi, a fragrant fish dish from India that gets all its flavour from an intense spice rub

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  Lamb pasta

  Brian Davis serves up a wholesome one pot dish, packed with tender lamb shoulder, carrots, onions and sweet potato along with whole-wheat pasta