Please share your best Christmas recipe with me.

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There was a thread like this last year and I got some fantastic recipes, if any one cares to share I would love to try some new ones please

I'm a big fan of Nigella's gingerbread stuffing. It's so delicious!

Snowball pudding. My favourite from being young. Have also made with pineapple and Malibu, also in individual portions in a bun tin. Make ahead and keep in fridge a few days.

https://037james.blogspot.com/2013/12/snowball-pudding.html?m=1

Does it taste like cake, though?

oh yum! I'm going to try this

Baileys tiramisu trifle https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/baking-and-desserts/baileys-tiramisu-trifle/

My own Sherry trifle recipe (well passed down from my mum).
•soak trifle fingers in Sherry overnight.
•add a bit more in the morning!
•add a layer of fresh mixed raspberries/blueberries
• add a layer of cold custard
•add layer of whipped double cream
• top with more raspberries/blueberries

Definitely trying the snowball pudding, thank you

@marmaladeandpeanutbutter No it doesn't, it has onion and bacon in it so it is a savoury stuffing, albeit with the spiced sweet note that the gingerbread loaf brings to it. It's great with Turkey and fabulous in leftover sandwiches. Now I make it as a second stuffing, I like to have a more traditional flavoured one as well.

I love this Christmas cake recipe (it’s a bit lighter than a normal Christmas cake and totally delicious). https://amp.theguardian.com/food/2021/nov/22/nigel-slater-christmas-cake-recipe

I like this nut roast recipe.
I’m happy to eat dairy so I add an extra 2 finely sliced onions caramelized in butter with the leeks (quite a lot of butter 😂) and use full fat dairy milk rather than soya milk.
I’ve also done it with half the hazelnuts replaced with mixed, roasted, salted nuts and highly recommend doing this. Soaked and chopped porchini mushrooms also make a great addition, as does lemon zest and extra garlic.
It is very simple and easy if you have someone veggie coming (especially if you buy a precooked brown rice packet). https://greenkitchenstories.com/mushroom-hazelnut-loaf/?amp
I make extra of this if we have veggie guests coming because it often gets eaten by everyone as a second stuffing!

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I'm sure the snowball pudding is tasty... it looking fucking grim though 🙁

I like American style stuffing - big bread cubes, sage and onions and chopped up sausage meats, all baked ins savoury stock.

I suppose it's lie savoury bread and butter pudding.

https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/sausage-herb-stuffing.html

https://www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/sides/italian-sausage-chestnut-stuffing This stuffing is delicious.

I make this as a spiced chocolate orange tart by adding the zest of an orange and replacing half the chocolate with Green and Blacks ‘Maya Gold’ (or some cinnamon, ginger and mixed spice if I can’t find it). I also cheat and use premade ‘all butter’ pastry. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolatetartwithwhi_87928

Also, for anyone who makes fish pie on Christmas Eve then this recipe is the best I’ve had:
-2 packs of raw fish pie mix (about 600g of mixed salmon, cod and smoked haddock cut into cube)
-300g of raw (defrosted) prawns
-200ml full fat milk
-4 tablespoons crème fraiche (full fat)
-40g butter
-25g plain flour
-250g baby spinach
-3 tablespoons of capers (chopped)
-Lemon zest, lemon juice, salt, pepper
-Mashed potatoes for the top

Cook the fish in the milk until nearly fully cooked (adding the prawns for the last few minutes). Drain the milk and keep to one side.
Make a roux with the butter and flour. Then add the milk slowly to make a white sauce. Add the crème fraiche at the end of making the sauce. Add the capers. Season with lemon zest, lemon juice, salt and pepper (to taste).
Stir through the spinach and wait for it to wilt a bit.
Stir though the fish and prawns.
Put in an oven proof dish and top with mashed potato (or thinly sliced potatoes dotted with butter).
Bake until golden and delicious

These would be my Christmas drinks of choice if I wasn’t pregnant (I hope you enjoy them for me):
https://amp.theguardian.com/food/2023/feb/03/cocktail-of-the-week-the-thin-white-duke-ooh-fashion-ed-old-fashioned-bowie-recipe-whisky-marmalade

https://theblondcook.com/cranberry-orange-mimosa/

And this hot chocolate with frangelico: https://www.chococo.co.uk/72-ecuador-origin-hot-chocolate-flakes-tin-vf.html

Yum!

Delia’s red cabbage with apple is a staple in my house.

https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/occasions/christmas/christmas-100-recipes-to-freeze/traditional-braised-red-cabbage-with-apples

As is a Mary Berry Christmas cake - she has several options, but I use a recipe from her complete cookery book. Online, this looks similar ingredient-wise. I make mini versions as gifts and they always go down well.

https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/mary-berrys-rich-fruit-christmas-cake/

Ed Kimber’s Nanna’s gingerbread also gets made at least twice on the run up to Christmas.

https://www.theboywhobakes.co.uk/recipes/2019/1/10/my-nannas-gingerbread

This is excellent as a general party plate - time consuming with the bread rises etc but not difficult at all. I just fill the bread balls with whatever i’ve got lying around.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/festive-filled-brioche-centrepiece-baked-camembert

We tried nigellas gingerbread stuffing last year and it was rank 🤢

Delias pickled shallots blew my head off but I liked them

I love Gordon Ramsey’s turkey gravy (you tube) is a bit of a faff but delicious. He’s a big advocate of resting the turkey and that takes all the urgency and rush out of Christmas cooking.

My game changer with Brussels sprouts is to cut them in half and caramelise them, cut side down, on the pan - I add garlic, lardons and a dash of soy but you can sub your own favours.

Nigel slater does yummy sticky cranberry sausages.

Earl Grey and gin Christmas cake

Oooh, good thread. Christmas is the only time of year I have any interest in cooking, so I appreciate tried and tested recipes.

Thanks for the nut roast recipe, @Monkeymonkeymoo. I was just saying on another thread that Christmas is the only time you can buy a good nut roast...for some reason it's never occurred to me that I could make one myself. It's a lot simpler than I thought (though now I type that, I'm not sure what I thought would be complicated?).

The snowball pud looks super nostalgic, @TherealmrsT. Shame I spend Christmas in a house full of dried-fruit haters as I quite fancy making it.

This is my best christmas recipe.
https://christmaseverydayclub.com/christmas-brunch-casserole-recipe/

I am sad that this year I don't break up from school until Friday 22nd. Won't have time to have my usual few days of festive cooking!

@Maruf003 5 pounds of bacon/pork?!? How many does it serve?!?