Here’s your guide to a stress-free Christmas dinner…
You’re still recovering from Christmas eve and the last thing you feel
like doing is cooking. Planning ahead ensures you have some time to
relax and spend with loved ones. Let us help with our planning ahead
guide to a perfect light Christmas lunch.
The annual Christmas lunch is at your house and you can find yourself
going slowly, inexorably crazy with panic in a matter of days! Here
are some tips on how to pull it off without a hitch and be a really good hostess.
In the countdown to Christmas we remind you of the important details, from ordering your gammon to drawing up a shopping list, preparing the gammon
step by step guide to making and glazing gammon and side dishes, some recipes to try and ideas for desserts and drinks.
Planning ahead for your Boxing Day brunch, ensures that you can relax on the day and end off Christmas with a high note.
You should really have made your Christmas fruitcake by now, but it’s really never too late. Follow our
Step by step guide to making a festive fruitcake or this Low GI Christmas fruitcake and then learn a couple of
expert tips and tricks for the perfect Christmas cake.
What’s on the menu?
If you still have absolutely no idea what you’re going to cook, or
looking for a slight variation on your regular themes, see what’s on
our Christmas menus:
Traditional Christmas lunch menu
Christmas Eve cocktail party menu
You know what you’re having, but what is the rest of the world eating over Christmas? Read our feature Christmas around the world.
Why not check out Food24’s best new cookbooks that 10 of our fabulous bloggers reviewed? Cookbooks make great Christmas gifts too!
More recipe ideas:
Bake a batch or two of homemade Christmas mincemeat, homemade creamy liqueur or these condensed milk biscuits.
And what about the children? They’d really love you for making a big jar of magnum and chocolate sauce.
Make the absolute best roast chicken.
Going for the big bird this year? Learn all about making and serving turkey.
Make sure everything ends on a sweet note with our latest video selection of classic desserts: Chocolate fondant, chocolate mousse and these awesome easy meringues.