RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Pizza

  Aaron Craze shows how to make pizza in true Italian style, complete with pizza twirling

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  Baked field mushrooms with tapenade on garlic croûtes

  Full-flavoured and deliciously garlicky, Rick Stein's baked mushrooms are simple to put together and tasty too...

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  Fava and sausage stew

  This is Clodagh McKenna’s take on the Italian classic, salsiccia con lentils, using new season fava beans and pork

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  Christmas kiss

  Get your party off to a good start with Diana Henry's festive cocktail brimming with champagne, cranberry juice and Cointreau

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  Fish head soup

  Irene Sykes creates a cheap but perfectly delicious soup with haddock heads, turnips and carrots

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  Rump of lamb with spiced aubergine and courgette

  For a delicious Mediterranean dinner, try Matt Tebbutt’s fragrant, lightly-spiced lamb and vegetables with yogurt dressing

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  Chicken curry

  Tom Green combines an array of spices to make a richly flavoured tomato and coconut milk-based chicken curry for any occasion

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  Pockmarked grandmother’s beancurd (mapo tofu)

  Gary Rhodes cooks a famous Sichuan dish of silky tofu with, known convivially as 'pockmarked grandmother's beancurd'

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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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  Coddled eggs with butternut squash

  Sat Bains serves an impressive autumnal dish baked in kilner jars – but make sure your scales are accurate to the gram!