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We served little cucumber cup canapés at our wedding and I have had a soft spot for anything scoopable ever since. This dip is the one I make most often,

Mushrooms are the side dish I make when the rest of the meal is doing something complicated and I want one tray that looks after itself. They go into the

There is already a tomato and chilli mussels recipe on here, so this one has to earn its place on the site. It does that with saffron and fennel, which push

Matt comes back from the gym wanting something to eat that is not another protein shake, and a tray of these is usually what I point him towards. A couple

I was a fussy child about almost everything except soup, which I would eat in whatever quantity you put in front of me. French onion is the one I graduated

I adore calamari and will happily make a whole meal of it, which is roughly what happens every time I cook this. Salt and pepper squid is a takeaway

I will batch cook anything that lets me pull a dish out of the freezer at Christmas looking far more organised than I really am, and this is top of that

I adore a good pâté and will order one anywhere I see it, which is presumably why I keep inventing new ones at home. This is the cheapest of the lot by a

Pollock is the fish I reach for when I want something cheap that still feels like a proper dinner. It is a firm white fish, milder than cod but holding

There are few things more comforting than a big bowl of chowder. When the weather turns grey and drizzly (which, let's be honest, is most of the year here),