RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Scrambled eggs with garlic, mint and lemon

  Bored with breakfast? Allegra McEvedy adds a Lebanese flavour to simple scrambled eggs

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  Topside with garlic, chilli and anchovies

  Matt Tebbutt brings the best out of beef topside with a slow-cooked stew packed with Italian flavours

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  Porridge with almond roasted peaches

  Tana Ramsay dresses up oats with syrupy, toasted almonds and plump, oven-roasted fruit

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  Black bean beef

  Chef Yang from Amoy uses black bean sauce and fresh green beans in his Chinese beef stir-fry

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  Steak and kidney pudding

  The suet crust in the best bit of Antonia Deigan's Steak and Kidney Pud

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  Rajasthani-style lamb curry

  Jaisal Singh's adaptation of Sher Bagh Pasande has a deliciously smoky aroma and is crammed with aromatic spices

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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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  Roast chicken with bacon and Marmite

  Flossie Squires uses a British favourite to give her oven-cooked bird a savoury and beautifully-brown skin

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  Beetroot & parsnip soup

  Vibrant colours and flavours are combined in this ravishing red soup from the Vegetarian Society

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  Cornish crab cocktail with avocado and sweetcorn sorbet

  Jason Atherton shows that it doesn't have to be difficult to create a thoroughly stylish starter for a special dinner