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Recipes from week 6

Chargrilled smoked salmon with avocado and orange champagne jelly

Apple pain perdu with mascarpone and cider syrup

Bubble and squeak with scrambled egg

Mincemeat parcels

Steak tartare with straw chips

Cheshire pot pie

Peking turkey

Ultimate spiced lamb burger with mozzarella and salsa

Crab and cheese toasts with chicory, pomegranate and feta salad

Recipes from week 5

Steamed sea bass, sage and capers

Eggs à L'Osmonde

Long hared Liverpool stew with celeriac and carrot mash

Devilled noisettes of mutton

Roasted artichoke, hazelnut and goat's cheese salad

Duck, beetroot and watercress salad

Saffron risotto with crispy shrimps

Chicken yellow curry with banana, lime and coconut

Sirloin of beef crusted in sea salt with deep fried Jerusalem artichokes

Summer couscous with monkey puzzle nuts

Pot roast pheasant with rosemary and garlic potatoes

Cassolette of snails with ceps and chablis

Steak and peppercorn sauce with mash

Scottish steak with tattie scone

Goat's cheesecake with toffee popcorn, banana and white chocolate

Salmon with spiced lentils

Minced beef with onion and ale and mash

Venison, chocolate sauce and honey glazed carrots

Asian-inspired turkey salad

Recipes from week 4

Braised lamb with a red wine sauce

The hound dog

Empire roast chicken

Wild mushroom sausage and squash in the hole

Rabbit with prunes, chestnuts and sherry

Lamb chops with clams, sherry and ham

Scallop burger

Grilled breast of guinea fowl with lime and ginger

Crisp fried chicken fritters in garlic and chilli

Grilled chicken, spiced aubergine, mint yoghurt and flatbread recipe

Dulse rosti

Caesar salad with deep-fried sprats

Oysters rockafella

Samphire, beet top and spinach tart

The bishop's fondue with seasonal dippers

Cod with brown shrimps

Recipes from week 3

Beef tagine

Foraged 'Chinese' stir-fry

Japanese hot and sour beef salad

Honey parfait with white chocolate sauce and honeycomb

Salmorejo with grilled prawns and sourdough

Scallops with cima di rape

Sichuan-style wok-fried fish with pak choi

Tuna with runner beans, pine nuts and raisins

Cajun fried chicken with tomato salsa and sour cream

Chargrilled lamb fillet with cumin, cinnamon and aubergine fatoush

Braised beef shank with horseradish mash

Scallops with mushy squash

Cured ham frittata

Lemon chicken paillard with bulgar wheat salad recipe

Gruyere stuffed bacon chops with quick macaroni cheese

Herring roes on toast

Pigeon bruschetta with red wine sauce

Moroccan chicken, harissa-spiced couscous and chickpea salsa

Quick apple and cinnamon brown sugar crumble

Lamb with bulgur and coriander salad

Recipes from week 2

Baked Alaska

Spicy lamb and carrot kebabs

Glazed pork fillets

Chinese prawn toasts with seaweed

Mexican ceviche

Veal stew

Sautéed bacon, baby potatoes and savoy cabbage

Lobster burger with gentleman's relish mayo

Bruschetta with pan seared scallops

Pork escalopes with spiced lentils

Pheasant breast with sloe berry sauce

Scotch quail's eggs with mashed broccoli

Pain perdu with damsons

Scallops with star anise and bacon

Wild boar loin with caramelised apple and sage

Mackerel with beetroot and black pepper

Recipes from week 1

Chilli chicken burgers

Partridge with fig, celery leaf and gorgonzola

Aussie-style Christmas surf n turf

Spicy sausage and mash

Baby squid stuffed with chorizo

Lamb shanks with pumpkin chutney and cavolo nero

Fried sea bass with salsa

Brown crab mayonnaise with whiting fritters

Ham, cheese and chicory rolls

Warm Welsh cakes with whimberry compote

Churros and chocolate

Prawns with Romesco sauce

Ginger beer-braised bacon with puy lentils, clementine and chilli

Roast cod with creamed leeks, wild mushrooms and white wine sauce

Curried lamb sweetbreads

Huevos rancheros recipe

Meet the presenters

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  Gizzi Erskine

  Glamorous and creative, get the lowdown on Gizzi Erskine

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  Matt Tebbutt

  Welshman Matt Tebbutt is passionate about British cuisine and seasonal produce

4Food chats to Gizzi Erskine

We caught up with the perfectly-coiffed queen of the kitchen to talk about British produce, Christmas cooking and the perfect Boxing Day sandwich

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Recipes in under 10 minutes

Salmon with sticky chilli sauce

Gordon's chicken and vegetable stir-fry with noodles

Pasta with walnuts and blue cheese

Hugh's curried instant noodles

Thai beef salad

Banoffee pavlova

Gluten free pine nut pasta

Simple avocado on toast breakfast

Your favourite Jamie Oliver recipes

Beef and ale stew

Fish pie

Hot chocolate fondant recipe

Pancake cake

Pork belly roast

Your favourite Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Baked chicken curry

Elderflower champagne

Chestnut and chocolate truffle cake

Mushroom ragout with soft polenta

Sausage and root vegetable stew