RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Brandy snaps

  Toffee-coloured biscuits laced with spice and a billowing cream centre from Eleanor Smallwood

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  Mini iced buns

  A real winner with young children, these iced buns are small enough to vanish in one bite - just the thing for kids parties

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  Delicious cocktail koftas

  Madhur Jaffrey's koftas make a wonderful snack on cocktail sticks or are equally tasty served as a main with spicy tomato sauce

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  Goan chicken with herbs

  Griddled chicken pieces coated in a lime-infused mint and coriander paste that will brings you the true tastes of Goa

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  Grilled lamb cutlets with salsa verde

  Celebrate spring flavours with Ben Tish’s dish of lamb with jersey royal potatoes peppered with piquillo peppers and a richly flavoured salsa verde

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  Gnocchi di latte with honey and Marsala sauce

  Try Matthew Fort's sweet dessert version of Italy's famous little dumpling - served with a honey-based sauce

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  Seville orange and chicken salad

  Seville oranges have an intense flavour that works perfectly with chicken.

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  Saffron-poached pears with chocolate mousse

  Jun Tanaka makes a deliciously decadent dessert of dark chocolate mousse and golden poached pears that serves two for less than £5.

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  Melon balls

  Threading fruit onto a straw adds oodles of child appeal.

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  Steak and kidney pie

  Shunning the suet in favour of buttery puff, Stuart Gillies enriches this dish with red wine, veal stock and port