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The Long Egg Saga
Imagine a video about how to make a reconstituted boiled egg, about 8 inches long. The guy making it is a bit nervous and clumsy, and the end result isn't great. But 1.7 million people have watched it. Then imagine he works on it some more and does another video a year later. The result is much better and he's endearingly ecstatic at the end. And 4.4 million folks have watched it. Now he's done another one.
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Hot-Smoked Salmon
Smoked salmon is one of the most luxurious things there is, and its price reflects that. But you can make hot-smoked salmon at home, quite quickly and without any special equipment.
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Beef, Mushroom and Marrowbone Pie
This pie came about because I wanted to make something like the cow pies (Americans stop sniggering) that cartoon character Desperate Dan lives on. His pies have a pair of cow horns sticking out of the top but I can't get those. But the idea of three marrowbones sticking out of the top is borrowed from Calum Franklin's great book, The Pie Room. And, a confession - I normally insist that a pie must have pastry top and bottom. This only has pastry on top, but it's still fabulous.
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Giant Ultimate Sausage Roll
You might call this epic sausage roll a poor man's beef wellington - it's a big fat roll of sausage meat wrapped in pastry. It looks and tastes fantastic. It's made for sharing and could easily replace a big roasted hunk of meat in a traditional Brit Sunday dinner.
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Sourdough Crumpets
Homemade crumpets are fabulous things, but the batter contains yeast and needs time to rise. If you have a sourdough starter on the go though, you can very quickly make amazing crumpets with fantastic flavour.
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Big Pork Pie - Stand Pie
This big pork pie is made for sharing. It appears at Christmastime in Yorkshire, although I dare say other regions have them and you can get them all year round. 'Stand' is short for 'standing', because this is a raised pie that's made around a former. At first glance you might mistake this stand pie for a Melton Mowbray pie, but it isn't. The main difference is that the pork in a stand pie is cured, making it pink. The meat in a Melton Mowbray pie is not cured and takes on a greyish colour.
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Gingerbread Sleigh and Reindeers
There are those who say no Christmas is complete without something made out of gingerbread - a house, typically, but really anything goes - your favourite building, your dog, or Santa's sleigh with edible reindeer. Yum.
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Easy Christmas Pudding
The traditional Christmas pudding is a heavy, dense thing, and trying to eat a portion just after a massive Christmas main course is just silly. And also, the trad pud has to be steamed for several hours. This cheats recipe for Christmas pudding is based around a jar of mincemeat - it's light, fruity, and cooks in the microwave in about 10 minutes.
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Christmas Mince Pies
Mince pies are the essence of Christmas for me. Little tarty things, crispy buttery pastry containing a dollop of fruity, boozy mincemeat (mincemeat recipe here). The name, misleading though it is, possibly comes from a time when all food was called 'meat'.
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Brandy Sauce
Try this deliciously simple sauce with your Christmas pudding - it's easier than custard (I always manage to scramble the eggs in custard) and more substantial than brandy butter. Based on a simple white sauce, this brandy sauce is a doddle to make.
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Christmas Mincemeat
One of the great traditional foods of a British Christmas is mince pies. You might think this involves meat of some kind, but you'd be wrong. Yes, mince pies contain mincemeat, but there's nothing minced in it, and no meat. Dried and fresh fruit are cooked up with nuts, spices, fat and booze, and the result is delicious.
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Cowboy Pie
I was told this is a popular school dinners dish, but it must be a new-fangled one (like, in the last 40 years) because I'd never had it before. Cowboy pie is proper quick, easy and cheap comfort food - sausages and baked beans topped with cheesy mashed potato. Sometimes, bacon, corned beef, spam or minced beef are used alongside or instead of the sausages.
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Dry-Cured Back Bacon
Making your own dry-cured back bacon is much easier than you probably think. And it's so much better than the junk you get from supermarkets, believe me.
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Herb-coated Rack of Lamb
Rack of lamb is a bit of a showstopper dish, one to save for special occasions. It's very impressive-looking, very tasty and actually super easy to make. So get your butcher to find you a rack of lamb right now. A rack is 8 ribs, and that's plenty for 2 people.
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Rouladen | German Beef Rolls
These traditional beef rolls are quite easy to make and very tasty. Thin slices of beef are wrapped around bacon, gherkins and strips of onion. Then they are baked and served with a super-rich gravy. Proper comfort food.
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Makaronilaatikko | Finnish Pasta Casserole
Makaronilaatikko is probably the most popular meal in Finland. It features macaroni, minced meat and cheese baked in eggy milk. That's it. Astoundingly simple and surprisingly tasty. Move over mac and cheese, you have a rival.
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