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This is a collection of recipes appropriate for dinner, or supper, or “tea” — whatever your habit of calling it is.
We’ve put a particular emphasis on dishes that illustrate and support entries over in the encyclopaedia.
Main Course Recipes
Use to stuff poultry or rolled pork.
You should probably serve this with something healthy, like a green starter salad. Or, you could just grab a fork and eat the whole darn thing yourself straight out of the pan, it’s that good!
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A really easy way to do something different with your pork chops on a weeknight: transform them with just a spoonful of apple sauce and a cheese slice
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This is a simple beef stew with an incredible sauce. We often turn it into a pie by covering the cooked stew with a pastry crust and baking a bit.
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Half the people reading this recipe will be smacking their lips; the other half will have already recoiled in horror! Broccoli, blue cheese — you either love ’em or you hate ’em!
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Very easy, and kids can help with the assembly part. You can make the tortilla bowls up to a day ahead.
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This is a surprisingly easy dish considering the amazing flavours in it. The dish also provides a wonderful sauce, so make a vegetable side — such as broccoli, cauliflower, mashed potato, etc — to pour the sauce onto: you won’t want to waste a drop of this sauce.
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Lots of interesting flavours and textures happening in this pasta dish.
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A classic, North American version of a Swiss cheese fondue. Though fondues were overdone in the 1970s and 1980s to the pointy of being seen as kitschy, when you make up a classic version like this one you understand why they gained the popularity they did.
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This is one of the cheesiest fondues you’ll come across. Cheddar cheese soup, processed cheese, liquid smoke flavouring — few things in life come cheesier than this, in every sense of the word.
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This is a Welsh dish for meatless sausages called Selsig Morgannwg.
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This was served with a pasta salad and lime wedges at the Queen’s Golden Jubilee party in 2002.
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Even though this is a white sauce, you will want a good hearty red wine to stand up to it.
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This is a one dish meal that will knock everyone’s socks off. It is very hearty; serve on a plate with just some salad and good bread.
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This is modern take on a traditional recipe from East Anglia in England. A more traditional version calls for fatty bacon, and apple cider (the alcoholic kind.) Ideal for making up a day ahead, then using on a picnic or for a brunch the next day to eat col
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The juniper-berries make a change from the standard-issue cloves. And what’s not to like about a gin-soaked main course?
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The cheat in this recipe is using a ready-made pizza base. But the flavours are all homemade.
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Excellent for single people or for households where you need quick meals on the go, as you can freeze the individual meat loaves and take them out of the freezer when you need to put a fast and easy meal together.
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This is a very easy to make glaze for roast pork that tastes as good as many more complex glazes.
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Gorgeously-flavoured chunks of moist pork, infused with the flavour of corn from the corn hunks they are bundled in for cooking. And they look stunning, too.
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This hash is a fantastic way to use up leftover meatloaf and get an extra meal out of it. This is good as a light supper.
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Great for vegetarians, but so tasty everyone will love them.
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A simple, inexpensive take on Beef Wellington
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Great with mashed potato.
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This recipe is as tasty as its name implies.
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This glaze for baked ham has a robust, tart taste to it that makes a welcome change from the usual overly sweet, unhealthy, sugar-laden glazes that are put on hams. Its slight tartness really compliments the saltiness of the ham.
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Chicken breasts are the default piece of chicken to serve these days. But let’s face it: they are often dry, boring and cheerless, served only because they are perceived as healthy.
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A really great twist on roast chicken, instead of the same old, same old. And it actually uses enough of a fresh herb that it’s worth buying from the store, for once.
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A really hearty, tasty potato dish.
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This is a summer recipe; make when the tomatoes are at their best and fresh basil is plentiful and inexpensive.
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Yorkshire puddings are one of those things that are meant to be cheap fillers to fill people up at the table — that instead, everyone treats as a featured dish and can’t get enough of.
