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Borscht East European Beetroot Soup
Borscht, or borsch, is claimed as their own by Russia, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and Ashkenazi Jews, but it's likely that it originated in the Ukraine. It's a hearty soup built around root vegetables and beetroot. Borscht can contain beef or pork, or just vegetables. It's easy to make and delicious.

Chilli Chocolate Chicken
Chocolate in savoury dishes is quite common in Mexico and other South American countries. The chocolate gives a rich mouth-feel and adds depth of flavour. This is a simplified version that was created to highlight Oxfam GBs range of Fairtrade products, including chocolate.

Orange Marmalade
There was a time when toast and marmalade were on every British breakfast table (and in every Paddington Bear sandwich), but its popularity has been declining. However, that doesn't make it any less wonderful. It's quite easy to make your own, and a great way to use up orange peel.

Honeycomb - Cinder Toffee - Homemade Crunchie
There's something magical about the way this bubbles and foams when you add bicarbonate of soda to hot caramel. If you have kids, you definitely want to get them involved in making this!

Burger Bombe
OK, it's a first-world problem, for sure, but don't you get fed up when bits of sauce-coated lettuce, tomato and gherkin fall out of your burger? I know I do! Anyway, I have the solution, and it'll only take you a couple of hours - wrap your burger in bread dough, seal it up, and bake it. Oh yeah.

Ploughman's Pickle
Branston pickle is widely available in the UK, but can be expensive / difficult / impossible to obtain in other parts of the world. But all is not lost - it's really easy to make your own, and it will last a long time in jars in the fridge. Or even not in the fridge - it's a pickle, full of preservatives like vinegar and sugar!

Opera Cake
Opera Cake was apparently invented at a cake shop in Paris in the mid-50s. It's made of layers of sponge cake, buttercream and chocolate ganaches, finished with a mirror-finish chocolate glaze. It's best to take your time when attempting this recipe - I took three days over it, but I was also filming it for a video. Anyway, have a go - if you don't mess it up, it's a seriously impressive thing!

Slow-Cooked Lamb Shanks With Red Wine Sauce
Lamb shanks are a frequently overlooked cut from the sheep - there's lots of cartilage and tendons and collagen in them. So they need a good long cook, either in the oven, or in a slow cooker/crockpot, or sous vide. In this recipe, I also show you how to make a simple but delicious red wine reduction sauce.

Posh Bacon and Eggs - Confit Egg Yolk - Candied Bacon - Homemade Brown Sauce
I wanted to try making a Confit Egg Yolk, which then developed into a kind of deconstructed Bacon and Eggs. The bacon is candied and cooked sous vide, and I also made a version of Brown Sauce.

Raspberry Pavlova
This amazing meringue-based dessert was created to honour the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova in the early 20th century. There is some argument as to whether pavlova was invented in Australia or New Zealand, but whichever it was, it's absolutely delicious.

Tiger Bread
Tiger bread - or giraffe bread or Dutch crunch bread - is so-called because the cracked coating on its crust resembles patterned fur (but actually if your crust really does look like tiger stripes then you've probably made it wrong). Apart from the crust, this is just a standard white bloomer loaf - and a very fine one too!

Spicy Black Bean Burger
I'm always suspicious of vegetarian things that try to mimic meat-based things. But with something as good as a burger, it's definitely worth a try! This recipe uses puréed black beans as the protein, pearl barley for bits of squidgy texture, and chia seeds and rice flour as binders.

Treacle Tart
Treacle tart is a quintessential British dessert - packed with stodge and sweetness, it's delicious and very easy to make.

Welsh Rabbit/Rarebit
Welsh rarebit is the older cousin of cheese on toast. Allegedly, it got the name because the Welsh were too poor to afford rabbit, so they ate this instead. If this is poor eating, give me more! Welsh rabbit is also known as Welsh rarebit, but nobody really knows why.

Beef and Guinness Pie with Kale Colcannon
This rich and tasty pie is the real deal. It's a real pie, not a bowl of stew with shop-bought puff pastry on top! And to go with it, an Irish classic, colcannon with kale.

Oat Biscuits - HobNobs
These delicious oat biscuits are sold commercially under the name of Hob Nobs. They are seriously easy to make, and it's impossible to just eat one!

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