RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Puffed pear pancake with quince

  This is a real stick-to-your-ribs breakfast from Bill Granger (a bit more like a pudding than a pancake)

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  Double chocolate walnut brownies

  Give in to temptation with these heavenly double-choc-nut brownies and their soft chocolate centres

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  Crab cakes with pineapple salsa

  Charita Jones cooks crab cakes with a fresh pineapple salsa for her dinner party first course using her momma’s special Cajun seasoning

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  Classic Thai green curry paste

  Add this easy-to-prepare Thai green curry to lightly fried Chicken strips and/or your favourite vegetables; serve with basmati rice and lime wedges

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  Poppy seed cake with vanilla buttercream icing

  This fabulously rich cake from Rachel Allen is best eaten with lashings of the vanilla buttercream

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  Salt fish with akee

  Catherine Dyer serves up this traditional Jamaican dish with rice and breadfruit

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  Chônkaelo Masalo

  Cyrus Todiwala cooks a simple Parsee-style gravy that is then turned into a fish curry

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  Mauritian prawn curry

  A myriad of sauces and spices are combined with tomatoes and aubergines in Nicola Clarke's sumptuous seafood curry

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  Mini Christmas puddings

  Beverley Glock creates a fun festive canapé - guaranteed to please sweet-toothed guests

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  Fidget pie

  Matthew Fort makes the Midlands equivalent to the Cornish pasty – a sweet and savoury pie filled with apples, cider and bacon