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Hundreds of show-stopping recipes, designed to impress your friends and family. How about cucumber, smoked salmon and avo stacks for starter; beef shin rendang for main; and a delectable chocolate, peanut butter and jam terrine for dessert?

Ricotta Cheesecake Recipe with blood orange slices

Burnt Basque cheesecake

1 h 30 mins serves 12

A rectangular loaf of bread topped with crispy golden potatoes and black olives

Roast potato focaccia

40 mins serves 8 as a side

A black baking tray filled with crispy filo pastry triangles

Sticky orange and ginger baklava

1 h serves 12

A four tier sponge cake filled with cream and topped with slices of pear

Salted caramel pear cake

1 h 20 mins serves 12-14

White plates topped with mascarpone and halves purple figs

Amaretto baked figs

30 mins serves 4

A wooden background topped with a golden pastry tart with cornflakes on top

Cornflake tart

1 h serves 10

A black baking dish filled with a roast bird on a bed of creamy sauce

Meat and poultry

Roast guinea fowl in white wine sauce

1 h 20 mins serves 2

Salted honey baklava

Baking and desserts

Baklava

1 h 30 mins makes 20 squares

A whole tarte tatin on a white plate with one slice taken out of it

Best French dessert recipes

Date and Pecan Loaf Recipe with Pomegranate Molasses

Best date recipes

A wooden table topped with plates of chocolate fondant with a dark red cherry syrup

Chocolate and cherry fondants

1 h serves 6

A white plate topped with slices of pale green jicama, topped with cubed avocado, sweetcorn and fresh green herbs

Avocado ceviche

35 mins serves 2

A plate topped with corn on the cob, drizzled with butter, with chunks of lime dotted around the plate

Sweetcorn with lime and miso butter

15 mins serves 4 as a starter or side

A wooden table with a bowl filled with slices of fig, almonds and white goat's curd

Beetroot, fig and goat’s curd salad

1 h 20 mins serves 4 as a starter

A wooden table topped with a shallow white bowl, filled with sliced roast duck, broth and green olives

Meat and poultry

Roast duck with green olives

30 mins serves 4