RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Mince pie baked Alaska

  If you think you don't like mince pies, try Matthew Fort's jazzed up version

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  Melba toast

  Melba toast is a perfect accompaniment for potted shrimp, pate or soup. From James Martin

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  Apple and quince tart with honey and hazelnut crème fraiche

  Perfumed quince puree takes apple tart to another dimension in James Martin’s stunning yet simple recipe

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  Jerusalem artichoke soup with foie gras

  A creamy winter soup with a decadent twist from Jun Tanaka

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  Griddled pork with leek and butterbean cassoulet

  Ben Ebrell combines juicy pork steaks with store cupboard butterbeans in a speedy mid-week supper for two.

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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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  Thai beef salad

  Tom Parker Bowles prepares a quick main meal salad, full of fresh, zesty Asian flavours

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  Coconut-crusted red snapper with pineapple salsa

  Ezekial Jackson shows Gary Rhodes how to create this simple yet sumptuous fish recipe, which is popular right across the Caribbean. Served here with a tangy pineapple salsa.

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  Sweet and sour fish for children

  Annabel Karmel's tasty fish dish and is good served on a bed of fluffy white rice - flake the fish and mix with the rice for small children

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  Pork with rosemary, thyme and garlic

  Trina Hahnemann uses pork foreloin or ‘pork roast’, one of the most popular cuts of meat in Scandinavia, though this cut is not as well known as it once was in Britain; serve it with the crisp pork rind on top