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Christmas Honey Roast Ham
You can make this ham any time of year, but it looks especially festive at Christmas. It's brilliant served as part of a main meal, but also thickly sliced in sandwiches.
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Christmas Turkey and Ham Pie
Somebody asked me recently if I would make a Christmas pie. Well, I'm not sure there really is such a thing, but I thought a traditional raised-type pie would fit the bill, especially if it contained turkey and ham with a smattering of cranberries.
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Christmas Yule Log
This traditional Christmas cake was invented in France, where it is known as 'bûche de Noël'. It's basically a chocolate Swiss roll covered in chocolate ganache and make to look like a log. Quite easy to make and very impressive to look at.
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Pea and Ham Soup
This is a very old recipe using simple and cheap ingredients. It's absolutely perfect for a cold winter day.
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Lentil and Bacon Soup
Lentil soup is one of my favourites - warm, comforting, tasty and really easy to make
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Fish Pie
Fish pie is a very simple and flexible dish, but the combination of fish in a creamy white sauce topped with smooth mashed potato is totally comforting.
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Northern-style Pork Pie
Unlike their cousins from the midlands and Melton Mowbray, these little pork pies are best eaten while still hot and the savoury jelly is still runny. Messy but perfect.
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How to Roast a Goose
In these days of factory- and battery-farming, goose is becoming a bit of a rarity. But if you can get your hands on one, it makes a wonderful alternative to a flavourless turkey for those special occasions when you need to feed a lot of people.
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General Tso's Chicken
General Tso's Chicken is a very popular dish in American Chinese restaurants, but less well-known in the UK. It's a bit like the sweet and sour pork we get in UK Chinese takeaways, except the batter is crispy and the sauce doesn't glow in the dark.
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Chicken, Leek and Bacon Pie
Chicken and ham, or chicken and bacon, are classic combos for a tasty pie filling. The addition of leek adds something extra. Yumminess, maybe.
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Roast Pork with Braised Red Cabbage
This is a complete meal and the flavour balance between the various components is truly marvellous - sweet tender pork wrapped in smoky bacon contrasted with sweet/sour red cabbage, zingy mustard mashed potato all dribbled with smooth velvety gravy.
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Chocolate Brownies
Everybody loves chocolate brownies, don't they? With their slightly crispy top and bottom and chewy gooey interior, they are a treat.
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Paella
Paella (pronounced 'pie-yay-ya', not 'pie-ella') must be one of Spain's most famous dishes. It was invented in Valencia and people get very heated about what goes into an 'authentic' paella. To be honest, I'm not a total purist (we actually had a paella at the Valencian restaurant that claims to have invented it, and we were not impressed), but I'd never put chorizo in it. What I'm making here is more or less what you would get at a restaurant in Madrid - Paella Mixta.
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Southern Fried Chicken
Everybody loves fried chicken, don't they? But maybe the 'fried' bit puts them off. In this recipe, the chicken is briefly fried, and then finished off in the oven. It's delicious and easy.
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Classic Chicken Supreme
The name 'chicken supreme' is a bit confusing - a suprême of chicken refers to the breast, sometimes with the wing bone attached. But there is also 'sauce suprême'. However, put them together and you get this delicious and easy chicken dish.
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British Mushy Peas
Mushy peas are very traditional in the north of England. They go brilliantly with fish and chips, pies, etc. But people who are not initiated into the craft have this idea that mashed garden peas will do as a substitute. They are massively wrong - this is how you make mushy peas, there's no other way.
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