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Sous Vide Steak with Black Peppercorn Sauce
If your criteria for a perfect steak require the meat to be evenly cooked from the centre to edge, with a tasty char on the outside, then conventional methods will not deliver that. But sous-vide cooking can. This steak is deliciously tender, and the black peppercorn sauce is fabulous too.

Bakewell Tart
This tasty almondy tart originated in Bakewell, Derbyshire. Originally known as 'Bakewell Pudding', the filling was a set custard, but the modern version is filled with raspberry or strawberry jam and frangipane, and topped with sliced almonds. Other versions have icing and half a glacé cherry.

Hash Browns
If you are going to have potato with your English breakfast, hash browns are probably the best way to do it. I've always found commercial hash browns to be bland and flavourless, but if you take the time to make your own, you'll be in for a surprise!

Minced Beef and Cheese Pie
I first came across this seemingly bizarre combination of ingredients when I was asked to supply some 'Australian' pies to a pub in Madrid. They really are yummy!

Full English Breakfast
The full English breakfast is really just a collection of components, and some would say they don't really belong on a plate together. But the whole is more than the sum of the parts, and it really works.

Cranachan
The Scottish dessert, cranachan, is frequently served at the end of a Burn's Supper. Originally it would have been made with crowdie, a kind of soft cheese, but cream is a good substitute.

Pork Terrine
Pâtés and terrines are great things to have in your fridge for spreading on toast or just general snacking. They're also cheap and easy to make. The name 'terrine' just refers to the vessel it's cooked in.

Eccles Cakes
These little pastry and currant sugar bombs were invented in Eccles, a small town near Manchester a couple of centuries ago. Also known as squashed fly cakes.

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.

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.

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.

Pea and Ham Soup
This is a very old recipe using simple and cheap ingredients. It's absolutely perfect for a cold winter day.

Lentil and Bacon Soup
Lentil soup is one of my favourites - warm, comforting, tasty and really easy to make

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.

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.

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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