What was the best thing you cooked over Xmas?

[CeCeSchmidt]

Just had some of the condensed milk ice-cream I made earlier. It was amazing.

The bonus was that all I could think of when I was folding in the condensed milk whilst making it was was Moira Rose saying “Fold in the cheese”.

How do you fold it? Do you fold it in half like a piece of paper and drop it in the pot?

Nigella’s clementine cake

My 4 kids would say my sprouts lol. Dd2 whose will be 19 end of August announced to me that she wants those for her birthday breakfast (we have a tradition in our house that whatever they ask for they can have for breakfast on their birthdays).
I personally think it was a toss up between my salmon en croute or my chocolate orange baklava.

Have to say the cake was pretty damn good.

Also, left-over pie was strangely delicious. Literally, all the Christmas dinner leftovers in gravy with a puff pastry top.

Fold… in… the cheese

Best thing I made was ham in Coca Cola - classic Nigella recipe, I’ve deviated on ham recipes over the years but this one is a classic in my family now. Done on Christmas Eve and eaten warm on that day, with leftovers on Xmas Day, Boxing Day, then the remnants go in a turkey, ham and leek pie.

My roast potatoes were spot on this year 👌🏻

My roast potatoes and parsnips were amazing. So was the bread sauce actually. And I can't claim credit for the M&S pigs in blankets but they were good too!

Vegetarian pigs in blankets (halloumi in aubergine)

My cauliflower cheese made with gold top milk was a thing of beauty. I'd tried to get ready made, stick in the oven stuff, but they didn't have any so I had to make it from scratch. I will never buy ready made cauliflower cheese again

Roasties were crispy fluffy beautiful things.

Cinnamon rolls too

I did ham in cola as always and it was amazing, it went in one sitting!

My pigs in blankets were actually the best thing I ate all Christmas though. I could eat them every day and be happy.

And the white chocolate and clementine cheesecake with a ginger nut base. That was a thing of beauty.

I had a couple of fantastic boiled eggs on boxing day.

My family would probably say the Yule log.

My dh did the cooking and he did the most amazing beef. It was so tender you could cut it with a fork.

Closely followed by the pigs in blankets. Absolutely delicious

On Christmas Eve I made sausages and bacon lardons with baked beans and Bbq sauce which we had with crispy potatoes and sweetcorn.
Ds2 and I made Percy Pig Cheesecake too!!

Everyone complimented me on my “homemade” brownies and kept saying they were the best they’d ever had.

Thanks Betty Crocker….

A venison sausage and root veg casserole with chestnuts. Family loved it and want to again at new year.

Boxing day pavlova, or Christmas eve gammon.
Christmas cake turned out nice this year too.

Who-Hash our pet name for leftover veg (honey roasted carrots and parsnips, roast potatoes sprouts and broccoli) chopped and fried in butter with chopped onion and bacon. Soooooo good.

I made an excellent Yule log