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Going out for parties over the Christmas period is always one of the highlights of the season – but sometimes nothing can beat an evening at home eating, drinking and being merry.
DFS want to help you make this Christmas your best one ever and have produced this Christmas inspiration guide to help you create a magical time, whether you’re organising a big family gathering or a cosy night in for two. One thing they can’t help you with though is cooking the food. However, every good host should have at least one tried and tested party recipe they know how to prepare perfectly and is guaranteed to go down a treat.
My tried and tested, personal favourite festive recipe is ….my Baked Camembert. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t loved the oozing cheesy goodness of this one, and its a festive treat that is so worth the calories!
You will need :
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1 whole Camembert, in its box
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1/2 garlic clove, sliced (well it is Christmas)
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3-4 sprigs fresh thyme or 1 of rosemary depending on what you prefer
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1 tsp good olive oil
- Chilli flakes (optional)
Method :
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. and remove any plastic packaging from the cheese but place the cheese back in its box. Leave the lid off for now.
- Slice the garlic thinly and chop the herbs you have chosen to use.
- With a knife, pierce the top of the cheese in several places and insert the slices of garlic and herbs into the slits.
- Drizzle lightly with olive oil and optional pinch of chilli flakes.
- Take the cheese with olive oil and place on a baking sheet, I add some parchment paper underneath too, to save on the washing up, just in case any of the cheese escapes. Remember to leave the cheese in its box to bake. Loosely place the lid on.
- Bake in the oven for ten to fifteen minutes, or until the centre of the cheese is melted.
- Serve straight away with different breads, crackers or sliced vegetables like carrots and peppers. My Brother in Law swears by Doritos as the best thing to dip! What ever you choose, this recipe id always always a winner!
But what I want to know is – what’s your own trusted recipe that you go back to again and again? Is it a traditional family favourite? Or new concoction you discovered after throwing together the Boxing Day leftovers?
Let me know your top festive recipe below and my favourite will win a brilliant Fortnum & Mason hamper.
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I’m not sure how long our Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe has been in the family for but I still ask my mum to make it every year!
i’m not the best at baking but i love to make mince pies with my boys at christmas x
we always make luxury chocolate truffles for santa on xmas eve!
It’s the Christmas sandwich, we add leftover bread sauce in with the cranberry and Turkey and stuffing 🙂
Christmas cinnamon cookies on christmas eve… they’re santa favourites 😉
gammon in brown sugar in the slow cooker!
My mam ALWAYS makes a turkey pie on Boxing Day to use up the Turkey leftovers and I love it!!!! She used condensed cream of mushroom sauce, chopped turkey and sliced red peppers for the filling and a homemade puff pastry for the pie itself.
I do a mean chocolate and Caramac roulade
My Mum’s Chocolate Fudge Yule Log Recipe 🙂
Good old bubble and squeak on Boxing Day with all the left over Xmas dinner
It’s a red cabbage dish for Christmas Day to go with the turkey.
Use my left over Turkey to ake Nasi Goreng – a recipe I found about 15 years ago
me and my grandaughter make mince pies every year!
I do this with Sunday roast dinners too but pretty much just fry off everything in one pan – roast spuds, meat , veg and stuffing … it’s lovely!
I love making baileys fudge every year!
an old mince pie recipe
We always do gammon boiled in coca cola, then glazed with honey and mustard.
It’s only a fairly new ‘traditional recipe’ but I started making Mincemeat Muffins (rather than mince pies because pastry gives my husband heartburn). I adapted a strawberry muffin recipe and added brandy buttercream and OHMYGOODNESS they’re amazing. They have been demanded every year since. In fact, I really do need to get making some or there will be a riot!
my christmas cake, comes from my great great nan so the late 1800s!… the fruit is soaked from jan to nov in brandy
We always have lamb for our Christmas dinner, and i make a lamb pie wth the leftovers. Its a hot water crust pie just like a crispy pork pie. The lamb and left over vegetables are put inside in layers. once its cooked I add lamb stock with mint and gelatin. Its lovely to slice open and see all the layers 🙂
My husband makes a Christmas loaf which is a split tin loaf which you slice off the top of the loaf and hollow out the middle. Stuff it with layers of a mixture of some of the breadcrumbs and sausage meat, some sautéed onions, pre-cooked mushrooms, boiled eggs and chopped up turkey and ham. Put the top back on and wrap in foil. Cooks in the oven for a couple of hours. Allow to cool and slice.
ome made soup
i always make a quiche and curry for boxing day with the turkey leftovers
bubble and squeak on boxing day with the leftovers
I have 2 recipes that I use every year, the first is Mary Berry’s Christmas Cake and the second is boiling my Ham in Cocacola with some festive spices. never fails to impress. I must add that we always have 2 meats on Christmas day for dinner, Turkey and Ham.
When I first became a vegetarian aged 16 my mum found a recipe for ‘festive rice ring’ and it has become part of our Christmas tradition even now!
You line a savarin ring with cabbage leaves and fill with rice cooked in vegetable stock and with red peppers, carrots, onions, halved Brussels sprouts, feta (and anything you like really!). Turn out and slice pieces of the ‘wreath’ for everyone to enjoy!
My Christmas cake is a tried and tested year after year and I am so looking forward to it
Every Christmas we have my grannies Christmas pudding and it is delicious! We all have the receipe. 🙂
its a herring under the fur coat salad and salad Oliver, i do every Christmas/New Year
Mys recipe for sage and onion is amazing, my attempts are never quite as good though
Love chocolate log with clotted cream.:-)
We don’t really have a family recipe but out one pot is always amazing , we throw all the left overs in one pot with a stew sauce and heat it up..always turns out amazing!
My Grandparents fruit cake, the recipe comes from during the war years when rationing was on, so it is very simple & everyone loves it, I am a grandparent now.
Got to be left over Turkey curry
We always make our own mince pies instead of buying!
Boxing day its picky bits and turkey curry the day after boxing day!
As I grew up in Texas, I always add my grandmothers Cornbread stuffing to our Christmas meal as it always reminds me of family in the states sitting down to it as well
It’s not festive for most, but we always have patties around Christmas. And we’ve been doing it for years! My Grandma usually cooks them, but I’ve done it for the past couple of years 🙂
We make lasagne on boxing day with turkey instead of mince 🙂
I have two, old and new. On Christmas Day shallots in red wine and honey which was a fairly recent addition about 5 years ago. On Boxing Day , Turkey and Ham pie, my great gran’s recipe that is a hit with everyone.
I make a banana trifle its so nice… a family recipe
My homemade chocolate yule log is a family favourite and i make it every year
Buttered leeks & peas is a favourite I make my dad every year! Also our raspberry champagne which I created myself!
Granny’s bread sauce recipe with no cloves but extra nutmeg.
My mum makes the best roast potatoes by shaking them up slightly after boiling. This gives them little fluffy bits which crisp with oil 🙂
Turkey Soup, can’t beat it 🙂
The gingerbread recipe we have used is the best ever, and is now an established family favorite.
Mince pies is about as far as I go, one thing I can get right!!!
Pork and apple soup made with leftover pork and bramley apple with a little cinnamon.
It’s a turkey curry with a lot of leftovers. It never fails.
I still use the same xmas pudding recipe from when i was at brownies.x
I make a wicked Christmas Pudding.
The only thing really is Bubble ‘n’ Squeak,it’s a very tasty way of using up leftover vegetables.
I love making my own mincemeat – makes mince pies super tasty
We love making mince pies each year
Perfect for Christmas .Lovely prize
My Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe isn’t one that’s been traditionally handed down, but I hope it will be in future generations because it’s amazing and so comforting in winter!
Turkey and Marmite sandwiches….they are soooo good!!
Bubble & Squeak with the left over potatoes and sprouts – yummy!
We bake lots if traditional swiss christmas cookies in the run up to christmas. For Christmas we go over to Switzerland to stay with family every year , we don’t have turkey but our boxing day tradition is gamon and homemade potato salad.
All of the left over veg goes into making a yummy bubble & squeak on Boxing Day
I have been told that I make the Best Christmas Pudding in the Land
My grandmas Christmas cake recipe.
We always have a roast gammon joint ready prepared to sustain us when we’re too tired, drunk or hungover to cook!
No one in my family is really that keen on Christmas pudding so we have a steamed sponge with dates and raspberry jam in. It’s my late grandmothers recipe and the most wonderful pudding in the world. Admittedly we do break it out for special occasions at other times of the year but we always have it on Christmas Day.
I found a recipe about four years ago for a Christmas Cake, and I adapted it slightly, and also added lots more brandy soaked sultanas ~ wow – this is the only way I’ll ever make a cake in future 🙂
My mums banofee pie is a passed down recipe!!!
Sticky toffee Christmas pudding, yummy! It’s in our kids Christmas cookery book and its been a family favourite for years.
Okay, I know this might sound really weird but my Dad has always, always, ALWAYS made the following for Christmas dinner and I absolutely love it and have brought it all the way from America to my dinner table in Nottinghamshire. My dad’s stuffing is Cream of Chicken soup (cooked) mixed with salted (saltine) crackers (crushed to bits). It’s even delicious when cold! And for the turkey gravy for dinner, it’s made from the juices from the turkey, a bit of flour and tiny bit of water to make it liquid and sliced boiled eggs with the yolks crushed to thicken the gravy. Absolutely love it and my four-year-old always asks for more.
We have another roast turkey dinner on Boxing Day and turkey, sausage and chips at the night time
We don’t have a special recipe but always enjoy the leftovers on boxing day.
We love a Turkey curry on boxing day
Bubble and squeak with boxing day left overs
Making the special mincemeat recipe for mincepies is a family tradition
my trusty gingerbread recipe
Ever since I was a child, my mother has always made a Portuguese Almond Cake every christmas. So, for me, it wouldn’t be Christmas without it.
its got to be sausage and chestnut stuffing , have nans recipe photocopied and all ready to go, have never needed to change it
It’s definitely our Christmas pudding – a good moist one with stout and lots of fruit. And we have a great way to boil it too. You cut a roasting bag down both seams, put the mixture in, gather up the sides and tie it with twine. It means you can put it directly into the boiling water. Brilliant!
Turkey, stuffing and bread sauce sandwich! Not exactly a new recipe but tastes very good!!!
Liqueur marzipan cherries are a firm favourite in our family.
I make a roast turkey soup with the left over turkey. It’s just chicken stock, shredded turkey, sage and if there are any left over roasties pop then in too. Cook in a pan then take out and blend, then put back in the pan. When its nearly ready to serve pop in some frozen peas, just a few. When you serve the soup you can add a blob of creme fraiche or similar and a hunk of bread with real butter always goes well to make a hearty lunch on boxing day after a brisk walk.c
My grandma’s Christmas cake recipe, my mum makes it and now I do too
We have Eggs Benedict with Salmon for Christmas breakfast!
I make my grandmothers chocolate rum truffles every year.
Dont really have one :-/ x
You can’t go wrong with bubble and speak on Boxing Day. I just mix together all the left-overs from the Christmas Day dinner – turkey, sprouts, potatoes, gravy, the lot – put it all in a baking tray, heat up, then serve in squares with a poached egg on top. Tasty, easy and practical x
I just always seem to be using leftover Christmas dinner meat in various stir fries for several days after Christmas.
My aunts recipe for Clootie dumpling
Good old fashioned shortbread dipped in chocolate
Chicken and ham pie
We just enjoy the leftovers
a traditional family trifle, it has about 10 layers and is delicious
A great Christmas starter / canape we make year after year is smoked salmon on low-GI bread (this bread is from our local baker and is similar to granary but even more packed with seeds and goodness). The bread is cut into triangles, spread with a mixture of cream cheese and horseradish and with a piece of smoked salmon on top. Delicious! To avoid the supermarkets running out of smoked salmon for Christmas as they often do, we usually buy ours late november / early december and pop in freezer until needed.
Sticky Toffee Christmas Pudding
Let me know your top festive recipe below and my favourite will win a brilliant Fortnum & Mason hamper!
We usually have Duck on Christmas Day with a variety of other Chinese variations of the Christmas dinner.
My particular favourite has got to be the ‘Sesame Seed Balls’ or ‘ Laughter balls’ because when they are fried they start to crack, resembling a grin!
1 medium egg
6 cups oil for deep-frying, or as needed
1/2 cup white or black sesame seeds ( white is more traditional)
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 cups boiling water
2 cups plain flour
3 tsp butter
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup (about 200 grams) red bean paste (if you want to make a filling)
Make into a dough ball, white with water and roll in the sesames- then gently fry until golden brown!
Turkey Meatloaf using the Christmas day leftovers
We bake spiced brown sugar mince pies every year
Jamie Oliver’s christmas pie. It uses up all the leftovers from Xmas dinner, but it is so tasty that we all look forward to it as much as the main event!
My mam has a secret recipe for a pudding called naughty pudding. Its the most amazing pudding i have ever tasted and we make it every Christmas
i use my grandmother’s lamb stew recipe as it’s the one that comes up the most delicious.
Home made Christmas Pudding – the secret is in the brandy !!
– lots of it
Recently got given a bag of spices for a boxing day curry – they are fab – trial run very positive
You can’t beat bubble and squeak with leftovers on boxing day. But it has to be with HP sauce
My go-to recipe for Christmas is parsnip bake. I boil & mash parsnips & then mix them with cream & cheddar cheese. It’s filling, but goes really well with roast turkey.
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1157/boozy-mincemeat
Never lets me down!
I always make some rum truffles that I used to make with my mum
My Grandma Wilson’s bread sauce recipe that she has passed down and is now a family Christmas tradition. I forget the recipe ever year but I think she secretly loves having to tell me every year!!
Christmas cake, mincemeat, Christmas pudding are all made to recipes my grandmother used.
home made stew with all the left overs
Nothing special on boxing day.. I just enjoy dishing myself up the leftovers of the christmas dinner. I make some fresh bread sauce and Gravy and actually enjoy it more thanChristmas day. I can just sit in peace and enjoy enjoy it without slumping down in a sweat whilst waiting on everyone
It’s the traditional Sherry Trifle that makes its grand appearance on Boxing Day. Have never resorted to shop bought trifles and there is something magically enchanting about putting the final swirls of cream in place – very decadent, very generous on the sherry side and everyone in the household without exception loves it!
We often have pasta with olive oil, lemon juice, grated parmesan, basil, chilli, salt and pepper and if we’re really hungry then top it with home made meatballs!
I have 2 traditions I go back to over Christmas for leftovers. Firstly, we make bubble and squeak out of the cabbage, brussels and potato and I love it. Also, this may sound silly but after watching an episode of Friends, where Ross has a gravy soaked slice in the middle of some meat. Well, it works! We save left over gravy and it’s really nice!
I made a Christmas pudding this year, but it didn’t turn out as well I had planned. Luckily my Mum made two. I’ll try again next year 😉
Chocolate fudge brownies made with some of the many chocolates we are always given at Christmas.
We always have left over turkey and stuffing on boxing day dinner with chips and maderia gravy, delicious !
Turkey curry with the leftovers!
Home made turkey and gammon white sauce pie
We always make a christmas curry on christmas eve, it has sweet potato and squash in it with cinnamon and cloves to give it a festive taste.
We make bubble and squeak with all the Christmas dinner leftovers on boxing day morning! The best bit!
Great Prize for the festive season
Home made turkey soup. My mum used to make for us too
I love my stuffing recipe. It changes a bit every year though. It involves a lot of sage, german sausage meat and apples.
It’s really easy, but my favourite thing to make it chocolate covered dates at Christmas time. Great to get the kids involved with too! I tend to make a mix of white, milk and dark chocolate to cover all bases 🙂
Jen xx
I make my mom’s Christmas Puddings every year now, using her recipe from Good Housekeeping from 1965!! She used to make them, but passed the baton, and recipe, on to me some years ago. It’s the only Christmas Pudding I like, and I love making and sharing them x
I like to make goose fat roasties every year yum!
It’s definitely my mum’s trusted recipe for crispy roast potatoes!
I am afraid to say it is a recipe my mum found for chocolate cornflake cakes that she found back in the 1970s. We have made them every year since then. They are very indulgent cornflake cakes that contain expensive chocolate, butter and golden syrup and all the adults in the family love them!
i always use my grans christmas cake recipe every year
Always fall back on bubble and squeak on Boxing Day. The kiddiwinks and I love it 🙂
We make a crushed oreo whipped cream recipe every year- it’s delicious!
My Grans Christmas Cake recipe … used by my mum and now me – Never Fails!!
My grandmother’s very dark Christmas Pudding
i get a big telling off if i don’t make my lime cheesecake. not especially festive, but i made it one year and get asked every yeasr now
We always do a buffet in the evenings with the leftover turkey as we are too full to eat big meals
Nothing too fancy….simply that we’ve always put orange zest into our mince pie pastry!
My Mum;s recipe for Christmas pudding id what we always use – Stir Up Sunday is compulsory attendance at ours!
I won’t be doing it this year, as I have lost the use of my arms. However, I used to make my own Christmas pudding- feeding it beforehand with alcohol and with loads of nuts and cherries. Even had the silver sixpence to hide in it. (Until it became so thin and worn, I had to replace with a small gold charm.)
I use my leftover meat to make a kind of special fried rice
We’re very unconventional in our family so we tend to cook something different every year – lately we’ve been trying a different world cuisine each year, with the last few years being from Vietnam and Mexico. Tasty they were too!
we make a lot of turkey curry thankyou
boxing day lunch of bubble and squeak, cold turkey, cold ham, and pickles on the side. amazing
Mince pies! I have a secret recipe that’s a winner with my family, friends and even neighbours!
My Grans Christmas cake recipe its yummy!! x
Christmas pudding truffles, just smash a pudding melt heap of uneaten selection box chocolates , spoonful of melted golden syrup mix all together and make into balls!
so easy and so yum
Oh I love camembert Amanda, it is just amazing!! Every boxing day I make Turkey pasties, puff pastry stuffed with leftover turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce! They are divine x
My daughter and me love to make Mrs Beeton German spice biscuits
Our annual Christmas cake is a traditional family recipe that has been passed down through many generations – it was also used to make my four tier wedding cake in 1993.
christmas pudding with a lovely shiny £1 coin in the middle! The kids love looking for it!
I love making my Nan’s Christmas cake for Christmas, it’s delicious & I know the recipe by heart <3
My Mum’s lemon meringue pie
I have a great one for leftover Christmas pud: Slice it and fry it, sprinkled over with icing sugar. Serve with custard, cream or Brandy butter. Try it. You’ll love it 🙂
Mine is the National Trust Christmas Cake recipe 🙂 it’s always been the one my mum has made, and it’s absolutely loaded with fruit and scrummy so it’s always the one that gets made every year in this house!
chestnut stuffing, i use my mums recipe and love it
I always have a go at making my own mince pies, which usually get snapped up pretty quickly – so they must be OK? As I’ve got older I’ve become more daring about what I cook up with the leftover turkey and this year I’m going to have a go at a curry recipe a good Asian friend has given me…fingers x on that one 😉
Turkey curry for boxing day cant beat it
every year on christmas eve we bake cookies 🙂
Mince pies with banana – an accidental mixup but tastes very nice. 🙂 ;D
It’s retro, but so Christmassy! We make Snowballs with Advocaat and Lemonade!
I always use the left over Turkey and make Turkey Curry with chips and rice always goes down well after days of eating Chocolates
red cabbage slow cooked and always trying to match it but never quite
For a Boxing Day treat I always have turkey, camembert and cranberry sandwiches! 🙂
Our secret recipe is mashed parsnips in bread sauce, delicious and easy. Boil the parsnips in milk until mushy then use the milk to make your bread sauce. Beat the parsnips into the cooked bread sauce, re-heat and serve, YUM!
My Mums Marmalade glazed ham always works and its sticky and orangey and yummy
fruit cake is my favourite x
I always attempt to make a christmas cake like my Nan used to every year.I say attempt because to me it never tastes as good but it has become a ritual for me to make one anyway
My daughter and I always make gingerbread house for everyone it’s so much fun decorating them
My very old recipe for home-made chestnut stuffing is the one that the whole family ask me to make each year.
TURKEY A\ND BACON RISOTTO
We don’t have any actually
My dad cooks the xmas dinner every year so we are very lucky1 xx
The way my mom used to close her pastry with scissors ,it was so special and l have never known anyone else close pastry that way around a pie
Pot Roast of beef, beef is always tender & doesn’t shrink
On Christmas eve I always make my little ones a non alcoholic egg nog and use the following recipe …
3 cups whole milk
1 cup double cream
1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
nutmeg to taste
Whisk together the milk, cream, sugar, and eggs
Cook over low heat, whisking constantly, Do not let it boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla extract.
add nutmeg to taste. .
I always use mary berry’s gingerbread dough recipe every year, I make cookies & gingerbread men from it to use as gifts for xmas 🙂
Nutella brownies. The easiest recipe ever but the tastiest brownies in the world.
I have a fab turkey curry recipe that is amazing with leftovers!
I always do a sherry trifle 🙂 my Nana used to make this as far back as I can remember and it was always so strong I was never allowed any as a child lol
Tried and tested christmas cake wins every time
Christmas dinner pie!
The Recipe for Christmas cake is the one my Mum always used
Plum Duff Pudding with the hidden coins in silver paper…. loved finding them as a child on Christmas Day
I make a baked Alaska every year! It’s my show stopper!
always do a yummy stew on boxing day with the leftovers, simple, easy and yummy
choc and cranberry cake
Chocolate and orange fudge with was handed down to me from my nana
I had my veggie friend coming for Boxing Day dinner and forgot about it so I mashed down the left over sprouts and mashed spud and parsnips mashed together with a little cream black pepper and a good pinch of dried mustard mixed in lots of grated cheese, popped into a oven dish made 3 wells in the mixture and cracked 3 eggs initial covered the top with a little more cheese and baked it turned out fantastic she loved it and I’ve done it on Boxing Day as a side dish every since and it always gets eaten quickly
Red cabbage and apple which is great with Xmas dinner or can be served cold with the leftovers on Boxing day
It’s simple dates stuffed with marzipan loved by kids and adults alike
Delia’s chocolate truffles
We always make mince pies
Bubble and squeak with left over potatoes and veg
Brazil Nut Roast is a firm favourite in our house as two members are vegetarian. I usually make it two weeks before Xmas and freeze it so it just needs cooking on the day. It is made in a loaf tin and I usually experiment a little every year to improve the flavours. It has brazil nuts, eggs, celery, cheese, carrots, onion, parsley, thyme, chilli, lemon, black pepper, breadcrumbs, but have also added seeds, and changed the veg. Briefly the nuts need roasting for 5 mins then put in the loaf tin on parchment paper the veg needs frying for about 5 mins and and then combined with the eggs breadcrumbs and all the other ingredients. Grate some spare cheese and nuts on the top Loaf and cook for 50 mins.
Mine is my Grandmas recipe for Christmas Pudding, whenever we eat it, it takes me back to being a child- and it has no peel which measn I love it!
My Christmas cake recipe from the Pink Whisk is the best I’ve ever used and I’ve nows used it for about 4 years running. It turns out beautiful every time and lasts ages!
we always have a family favourite, its called Swiss toffee apple………… stewed apples on the base, with whipped cream on top of that, and then a layer of caramel coated cornflakes. its delicious and can also be had for breakfast!!!!!!! as a treat
Don’t have a long traditional recipe but my daughter makes the most amazing red wine gravy
My parents always visit on Christmas Day bringing with them a yummy gammon joint always cooked in the traditional ‘boiled’ way.. Love it!
I am so cross with myself for not asking my grandmother for her Christmas pudding recipe, the likes of which I have never tasted since she left us. I am still trying out other recipes each year but haven’t so far found one as magical as hers.
A neighbour did, however, give me a lovely pavlova recipe for Boxing Day which I use every tear.
I love making fairy cakes, so easy when you want to relax, and there is always someone who will eat them
Pumpkin spice pancakes – it’s a recipe I picked up from a blog and they taste so good
I have a fantastic gammon in cider recipe that I pulled out of a magazine years ago. It works brillianty so I always go back to it.
I always make chocolate truffles on Christmas Eve so we can nibble on them whilst watching movies.
A chicken/pork, apricot and pistachio terrine, great with cheeses and pickles on boxing day
chocolate log, no bake, yum yum
a christmas cake recipe i learned in school
I make my mince pies which are lovely 🙂
Dont have much time to cook now,give up trying now and shop bought tastes so much better than my cooking
Mine has to be the recipe for mince pies. I’m not sure where it started but I remember both my nan and my mum making the same great tasting mince pies x
We generally change recipes every year, but nothing beats a turkey curry on boxing day 🙂
bubble and squeak on boxing day
I’m vegetarian and it’s not Christmas without Delia Smith’s cheese & parsnip roulade. My aunty adapted the recipe into a pie and we have it every year!
Has to be turkey soup full of leftovers and my mums recipe
My partner accidentally made a stuffing and bacon cake one year, and now we’ve being having it every Christmas since!
Mums Yorkshire pudding mix. I have the recipe but it still never tastes like mums!
home made mincemeat icecream. Allow a litre of ice cream to soften quite a bit. pour into a large bowl and add a jar of sweet mincemeat. Stir until combined and then place in tubs and refreeze until required.
My favourite is Christmas pudding ice cream, made with the leftover pudding – really yummy and even liked by people who don’t normally like Christmas pudding. A close second would be the colcannon made from leftover potatoes and sprouts – it’s great for Boxing day breakfast.
My gluten free Yorkshire pudding recipe is a family favourite and passed down.
I have a wonderful Christmas cake recipe that I make every year
My Grandson and I make at least 2 dozen mince pies every year,they are nothing like shop bought ones,so every year we say never again,because anyone arriving or leaving snaffles them and then we have to buy shop bought for Christmas itself
We always make mince pies and chocolate truffles
My favourite family recipe that do every Christmas and I think is quite unique to my family is pumpkin cake.
My mums chocolate truffles x
Slightly odd one – chilli brussel sprouts – really finely chopped brussels with garlic and crushed chillies cooked in a wok or similar with a splash of water.
Totally awesome, my mother introduced it years ago, and all the kids will more than happily eat their sprouts every Christmas now!
a traditional bacon and mushroom stuffing x
We love making christmas cookies as a family xxx
My tried and trusted festive recipe would have to be my cheesy bacon bites, good strong chedder wrapped in streaky bacon. They go perfect with the christmas dinner and are even better as a snack in front of a good christmas film! x
i dont have any i leave it all to mmy nana and do as im told lol xx
The turkey curry in our house is the stuff of legend. Refined over the ages, it’s the ultimate use for the main meal leftovers 🙂
Every year my family makes a christmas yule long, with a special ingredient 😉
Anything that is popular in the office – my New York baked cheesecake is a huge hit x
My nana’s recipe gingerbread biscuits. The kids love to ice them and hang them on the tree on Christmas Eve.
My Granddads bubble and squeak i make it every year the day after Christmas
My Christmas cake and pudding recipes were passed down from my Grandma to my mum to me. I have passed them on to my own children. I love the tradition that is at least 4 generations old 🙂
My DH makes his own chestnut stuffing – it’s gorgeous (much better than M&S!!)
either it is my Brandy butter recipe, or it is my spiced biscuit recipe – they may look simple, but people come back for them time and again 🙂
i swear by nigella’s turkey in a festive brine bath with ensure a moist flavoursome beauty. my home made mince meat in paul hollywood’s mince pie recipe, which will convert people who would not normally like mince pies
As a vegetarian family we have ditched the festive meat and replaced it with quorn based substitutes.
Homemade mince pies
We have Ris à l’amande, in the Danish tradition. It is a very creamy rice pudding with chopped almonds (the à l’amande) and served with cherry sauce. One whole almond is added. Whoever gets the whole almond must keep it secretly in their mouth so that it remains whole until all the pudding is gone. Then, they can reveal that they have it and they receive a small present, this is known as ‘mandelgaven’ (lit. The Almond Gift) it is a little like the old silver sixpence in the English Christmas Pudding, but a little less heavy to eat and a little more fun to play :0)
fresh cream meringues…one of the few things I can make really well and they are always popular
Boxing Day turkey curry