Category Archives: Christmas 2009
Perfect turkey: Quick, unstuffed and upside down
There was a lot of scepticism around my friends and family when the ‘mini cookbook’ was retrieved from the rather lavish box the turkey was handed over in. A 5kg turkey that cooks in two hours 15 mins??!!! Queue tales … Continue reading
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First mince pie done, now for the cheese board
First mince pie of the year. Warm, crumbly with a splodge of clotted cream………..mmmm lovely! In a couple of weeks time, the words, “would you like a mince pie with that?” will no doubt take on a daunting one-more-mint overtone … Continue reading
Filed under Christmas 2009, Product trials, Yorkshire
Panic!!! Christmas is five weeks away
With just a month to go of course it’s time to panic. The Observer food monthly may be smugly telling me there’s heaps of time left to bake up some “cheese straws that are as easy as keeping goldfish” to … Continue reading
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Making sloe gin for Christmas
According to the sloe forum (strapline, there’s no biz like sloe.biz!), the August fruits from the blackthorn bush are too early for picking to make the traditional gin drink. But, having been presented with a carrier bag of the little … Continue reading
Filed under Christmas 2009, Recipes
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