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Dinner party recipes
Normalise throwing dinner parties for no occasion at all! What could be better than gathering your favourite people, catching up over cocktails and nibbling your way through some seriously good party food recipes before sitting down to a proper feast? If you’d rather skip the cooking, our food made to order has you covered. These dinner party dishes are beautifully prepared, blissfully stress free and guaranteed to earn you a chorus of “wow”.
Bavette Diane
Miss the dinner parties of the 80s? Step back in time with Alex Szrok’s steak Diane reboot, using porcini crusted bavette steaks, seared and finished in a rich brandy and shallot cream sauce.
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