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Mike's Triple Chocolate Cookies

Here's Mike's chef-beating recipe for the ultimate chocolate chip cookies, featuring your top tips from TikTok! Get involved. (Makes about 14 cookies)

One-Pot Creamy Lemon Chicken Pasta

A hug in a bowl... Or in this case, pan! Feel free to add more or less chilli flakes according to your preference.

Greek-ish Gnocchi 'Potato' Salad

Pre-cooked Gnocchi is a great hack for a speedy potato salad!

Greek Orzo Bowl

Fusing Greek and Italian food never packed so much flavour or tasted so fresh! We love making extra for lunch the next day

Cajun Shroom Rice

This is a dish you do NOT want to miss! We use packet rice to keep things speedy, but feel free to make fresh rice if you’d like!

Quick Lamb Pide

It looks like you’re LOVING this Turkish flatbread pizza! This was taken from the Mid-Week Flavour Bombs Recipe Pack - you can also tuck into Thai Curry Style Chicken Wings and Lamb & Feta Orzo.

Kimcheats Caramel Roast Pineapple Tarts, Coconut Yoghurt

Roscoff Onion and Limousin Apple Tart Tatin

Kimchi Pakoras, Gochujang Curry Leaf Mayo, Cheats BBQ Sauce

Kimcheese Pizza Gyro

Wine Poached Fruit and Spiced Brioche Trifle

Taste France Choucroute Inspired Filled Buckwheat Pancake

Ploughman’s Board

What better way to celebrate farm produce than with a traditional Ploughman’s? The classic English dish gets an upgrade with a “pasty with afters” - aka a pork pasty with an apple pie filling at one end! Complete the spread with homemade piccalilli, vegetable crisps and rye crispbreads - all rounded off with a large hunk of cheese and a chilled local beer of course!

Beetroot Arancini Roulette and a Whisky Bramble Pitcher

Sure, party games are great, but have you ever played an edible one?! Served on top of a delightfully creamy dill mayo, these cheat’s arancini are rich in beetroot and loaded with mozzarella - and horseradish if you’re unlucky! Wash them down with a Bramble cocktail made with The Singleton whisky for the perfect start to the night ahead.

Toffee Apple Pig In Blanket Balls

The very best bits of Christmas Day and the funfair collide in a nostalgia-heavy dish that makes the most of the humble onion. Herby sausage balls wrapped in smoked bacon are served alongside sticky caramelised onions and a zingy pickled carrot slaw for an unforgettable flavour experience. It’s all brought to life with a warming Toffee Apple Moonshine BBQ sauce.

Corn Dog-Style Prawns With Grilled Gem Marie Rose Salad

We teamed up with Heinz to bring 3 of our favourite things together in one whacky, battle-perfect dish. Skewer your prawns, coat them in a corn dog batter and fry ‘em to perfection before loading them onto grilled lettuce and drizzling with sauces made using Heinz Tomato Ketchup and Heinz [Seriously] Good Mayonnaise. Hot dogs, corn dogs and the humble prawn cocktail collide in this quick ‘n’ easy foodie mashup.

Mezze Platter - Olive Oil Bread, Dolma & Taramasalata

A simple yet inviting mezze platter to enjoy in the warm Aegean sunshine! The star of the show is Ledenia bread, ideal to dunk into the homemade taramasalata which is made with olive oil to emulsify the cod’s roe into a pale and creamy dip. Served alongside is carefully wrapped and cooked dolma (herby rice rolled into vines leaves and slowly cooked in an olive oil broth). A true celebration of Greek olives, the regions they grow in and the edible oils pressed from them.

Olive Oil and Dark Chocolate Sundae

Olive oil is the star of the show in an incredible ice cream sundae that’s anything but conventional. A deliciously dark and indulgent chocolate ice cream, made extra smooth and creamy with olive oil, is paired with sweet, fluffy focaccia and honey-roasted feta. It’s all served up with a jam, but not as you know it - Kalamata olives bring this smoky sauce to life.

Korean Fried Sweet and Sour Chicken With Sesame Sticky Rice

Looking for a fiery midweek treat that’s (mostly) straight from the store cupboard? We’ve got you covered, with the help of Heinz Tomato Ketchup! Buttermilk fried chicken thighs are coated in a sweet, sour and aromatic Ketchup-based sauce spiced with plenty of gochujang.

DIY Yuzu Meringue Pie and a Whisky Holy Basil Mojito

Invite your mates round and trick them into finishing the dish for you with this sweet DIY canape. You make the cheat’s pastry cases, zingy yuzu curd and a super simple Swiss meringue, and they do the rest! Cut through the sweetness with a zingy cocktail - The Singleton whisky, holy basil and lemongrass are mashed with limes, sugar and mirin in this mojito with a difference! Meringues and mojitos are the duo we never knew we needed… until now.

TOMATO & WATERMELON RED CURRY PORK RIBS WITH A TOMATO KOMBUCHA PAK CHOI SALAD

For this dish, we teamed up with BASF to highlight Intense tomatoes and their many uses! Tomatoes are crammed into a fragrant marinade, a fresh cooking juice and a delicate curry sauce, taking humble pork ribs from old to new with the help of sweet watermelon, tangy kombucha and the flavours of East Asia.

SWEET TOMATO AND BASIL CHEESECAKE

Like cheesecake? You’re going to love this sweet treat! We’ve partnered up with BASF to put a semi-savoury twist on a well-loved classic and showcase just how versatile tomatoes can be. Intense tomato jam, candied basil and tomatoes roasted in sugar work in smooth, silky harmony with a simple ricotta filling and biscuit base. You have to give this a go!

SOY SALMON AND BRAISED CABBAGE TARTLETS

Christmas is a time for sharing, and these seasonal tartlets with sensational @LKK sauces make for the perfect party snack. Dainty pastry shells loaded with sesame-spiked red cabbage, soy-glazed salmon and sharp carrot pickled in rice vinegar - sweet, sour, savoury and salt come together in one handy mouthful! This is Christmas with an Asian-inspired twist.

CHEAT’S COCONUT MINCE PIE BUNS

Sure, mince pies are nice, but if you’re a little bored of this time-honoured seasonal traditional snack, we have the cure! We’ve developed a super simple steamed bun recipe with @LKK to keep those Christmas cravings at bay. Spike mincemeat with sharp rice vinegar, soy sauce and plum sauce and fill up sweet coconut buns for something a little different.. You NEED to give this mince pie bun a go!