Xmas Festive Cooking
Stuck for ideas for Christmas? Need some inspiration? Would like to include some vegetarian or vegan choices? Or just fancy something a little different from the usual.
Each Christmas, we come up with a completely new menu. We will cook a selection of savoury nibbles, appetisers, main dishes and puddings, which you can mix and match to cover the variety of meals over the festive days.
We could do gougeres filled with delicate fromage frais, with the smoothest carrot and anise puree, a rich smoked tofu and mushroom pate, our favourite nut and seed roast, a crisp filo roulade layered with seasonal vegetables served with all the trimmings.
There will be over the top dishes such as ginger sticky toffee pudding with pears poached in ginger wine with hazlenut dark chocolate toffee clusters.
We will have time to discuss stress busting techniques, making as much as possible in advance, what dishes freeze well, so that when the in-laws arrive you can put your feet up and relax with a glass of bubbly. We finish the day with a relaxed Christmas Lunch with organic cava to drink.