English Seasonal Recipes

"A must-have around the holidays, but nice to make all year round."

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Ingredients: dried cranberries, eggs...

"All you need is a stove. I went to the British for this because if anyone knows how to roast a chestnut, they do. From the BBC. I needed plain for a recipe and don't use oils."

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Ingredients: dry white wine, chestnuts...

"This recipe is one that I have been making for ages at home, however, this particular recipe, is the one that was published in The Nation's Favourite Food cookbook, a poll run by the BBC to "capture" the Nation's best loved and top 100 recipes - the Nation being the Great Britain. Jo Pratt is the author of this recipe, but, I have tweaked..."

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Ingredients: golden syrup, honey...

"This is a very old British tradition & method of colouring and dying eggs to be boiled and eaten on Good Friday & throughout the Easter weekend. There are commercial dyes available nowadays, but I still prefer the traditional natural methods of colouring my Easter Pace Eggs – onions skins (and also spinach & beetroot water). The name Pace..."

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Ingredients: eggs, aluminum foil, string...

"Our favorite dessert, made from fresh berries or from the berries in the freezer, in the middle of winter they are wonderful. (try other berries too, cranberries are great!)"

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Ingredients: vanilla, vanilla ice cream...

"Just the words Ploughman's Lunch, conjures up images of lazy lunches sat outside with friends, in the Beer Garden of an old Country Pub! This is one of the most famous of pub lunches - so simple and yet so satisfying, especially if taken with a pint of real ale or cider! Although the term "Ploughman’s Lunch" was first coined in the 1930’s,..."

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Ingredients: chutney, red leicester cheese...

"French Tart, this is for you! When 4th of July rolls around in Bowerbank, Maine, it's off to the farmer's market for the first of the fresh peas!! Please don't overcook the tender sweet leetle things. ;)"

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Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, peas...

"VERY simple starter. Requires only simple ingredients. I'm a kid, and I can do it."

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Ingredients: chives, pepper, olive oil...

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Ingredients: chocolate, fresh strawberries...

"An easy, romantic and elegant dish to make with chicken breasts, which are gently poached in a lavender infused broth and then served with a creamy shallot and lemon sauce. Use low fat creme fraiche or cream if you are watching your fat intake - it works just as well. Serve these delightful lavender poached chicken breasts with wild rice, pasta or..."

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Ingredients: cornflour, creme fraiche...

"Goes great with clotted cream."

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Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, eggs...