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Here’s a date and apple slice that you can almost convince yourself is good for you. So much fruit and rolled oats - you can almost feel it doing you good.

Here’s a challenge for you. If you made the orange cake

Mei Goreng  This is a classic Indonesian dish using traditional flavours of

School holiday time means you should probably top up your cake tins for the hordes of children. Here’s a slice for you to try:

Versatile slice - so named because you can choose from such a wide variety of fruit for the filling. It makes a great Christmas treat to use fruit mince for a take on mince pies during the festive season. Slow-baked quinces was another very successful filling.

With oranges aplenty, this is a lovely citrus dessert cake.

We have a couple of recipes this edition, sent in by one

There are many ways to make an egg and bacon pie - but this way was new to me.

This recipe started out with pork sausages but I only had chicken thighs in fridge! So that’s what I used. Feel free to go with the ‘snags’