RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Confit of pollack with cockle chowder

  This impressive-sounding dish is quick and easy enough to prepare for a mid-week supper.

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  Orechiette and fennel salad

  Miguel Meastre combines pasta, courgette flowers, fennel, watercress and fresh goats’ curd in this magnificent summer salad – use goats’ cheese if you can’t get hold of curd

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  Raspberry vinaigrette

  Try this light summery vinaigrette poured over half an avocado or drizzled over a rocket salad

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  Slow-roast shoulder of lamb with barley and mushrooms

  Warm up a cold day with this hearty dish of lamb in a creamy tarragon sauce from Ollie Rowe

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  Roasted rack of lamb with red cabbage puree and juniper foam

  Jason Atherton makes an impressive dish of roasted rack of lamb with red cabbage puree, savoy cabbage and cabbage butter and juniper foam

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  Sticky gingerbread

  Sophie Grigson's dark and sticky homemade gingerbread is hard to beat for a teatime treat

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  Pumpkin soup with cheese toasties

  Pumpkin and sage are a wonderful pairing and the toasties that accompany this velvety soup are made using Sage Derby, the flavour-packed cheese from Silvana Franco’s home city

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  Tortilla Española

  Mario Batali makes the national dish of Spain. You can eat it as a tapa, for breakfast, in a bocadillo (sandwich), or for dinner with salad and a bit of jamón. Basically anytime, anywhere!

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  Cod cheeks in beer batter

  A sharp tartar sauce provides the perfect foil for James Martin’s crisp-fried cod cheeks

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  Rolled roast pork with butternut squash

  Sarah Thatcher cooks up a pork roast with all the trimmings