RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Chicken and mango skewers with peanut sauce

  Healthy, children-friendly canapes from Tana Ramsay

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  Escarole and smoked mozzarella pie

  Gennaro Contaldo cooks a gutsy pie with a relative of the endive; also eaten cold, it’s an ideal dish for sunny outdoor snacking

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  Banana bread

  Sarah Kenyon bakes a deliciously moist cake-like bread using overripe bananas

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  English ale-soaked Christmas pudding

  Let everyone in the family have a stir and make a wish when you prepare Diana Henry's fabulous traditional Christmas pudding on 'Stir-up Sunday'

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  Mulled wine

  For a warming winter tipple try Simon Brown's simple recipe for spiced wine, great for parties

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  Pink meringues with raspberry cream

  Think pink with Rachel Allen's glorious raspberry swirl meringues

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  Mrs stephenson's cucumber mousse

  This light and lovely mousse from Mrs Stephenson makes a stylish starter of an elegant buffet dish

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  Sichuan sweet chilli prawns

  The tongue-tingling flavours of Sichuan come alive in Ching-He Huang’s recipe for spicing up prawns

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  Chicken with puy lentils cooked in cider

  Ben Ticehurst cooks these green lentils with bacon, onion and garlic to create a dish full of the flavours of France

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  Herb crepes with smoked salmon, crème fraiche and cucumber

  Smoked salmon with crème fraiche and cucumber inside golden herb-speckled crepes, make a stylish starter from Claire Macdonald