Your favourite Christmas recipe.

[MrsWhites]

Is it too early? I want to try a few new recipes this year so share your favourites with me please!!

I’ll start with the pie I make with Christmas leftovers:

hairybikersrecipes.co.uk/hairy-bikers-turkey-ham-pie-recipe/

I don't know, but that puzzled me too.
Is it this one? https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/occasions/christmas/christmas-cakes-icings-and-toppings/creole-christmas-cake

My dd makes the Nigella sausages with veggie sausages and says they are nearly as good as the pork ones. There's a law in our postcode that I am now required to bring some to whatever function I go to year round. I have pointed out it's not my personal recipe!

I'm definitely doing the mincemeat trick.

Yes ty

Sausage Plait Recipe | Sausage Recipes | Tesco Real Food

Yuuuuum!

Nigella’s white chocolate and cranberry cookies for me - well actually the whole of her Xmas book really.

Some absolutely delicious ideas on here!

Not really a recipe and it's only as good as the sum of it's parts so use decent icecream but this is easy to make, can be made ahead and so nice:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/millionaires-ice-cream-bombe

I'm only not making it this year because I can't stop myself from eating it - it's big and so tempting

I make this a lot around Christmas, it’s Rachel Koo’s warm winter salad. Roasted glazed veg like beetroot and carrots, with a goats cheese mousse and vinaigrette dressing (I add honey and nuts, too). If I’m feeling lazy with it I just break up the goats cheese, but the mousse is worth it.

Mine love this leftovers pie from Angela Hartnett. One prefers it to the main event!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/turkey_leek_and_ham_pie_79037

I’m cursing the day I threw out some ancient BBC Vegetarian Christmas magazines, one of which included a pine nut roast by Sophie Grigson that I’ve never been able to find again, and also a wild mushroom coulibiac by Louise something. Both recipes I tried and enjoyed and then inexplicably didn’t save.

Sophie grigson’s sprout gratin! Sprouts, bacon, flaked almonds, Parmesan. It’s the favourite leftover. We double quantity. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/gratinofbrusselsspro_87597

And a big jar of amarena cherries to go in Cava.

I always do Nigellas Christmas pudding. Even people who don’t normally like Xmas pud seem to like it. I cook and reheat it in the slow cooker. I also make her clementine cake.

I’m so happy I started this thread, my Christmas menu is going to be so exciting this year!

I also make a sprout gratin, might try this recipe now for a change.

Might also have to give the hairy bikers turkey pie a year off and try that one @prelovedusername

I have to confess as a vegetarian I’ve never tasted it, though I cook it every year, but I’m reliably informed it’s delicious as well as being something any fool (me) could manage!

My all-time favourite is a very simple pickle of peeled slices of cucumber and finely sliced white onion in malt vinegar. Pickle it about two days before you want to eat it. It is absolutely amazing with cold cuts and Stilton cheese. As a child I simply used to eat it in sandwiches - a very cheap dinner on Boxing Day!

I am a bit of a pickle addict though.

Christmas Pudding Vodka.

You're welcome :)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/christmas_pudding_vodka_45343

@DaisyDayz i love that pickle idea, they will go down nicely in our family!

Does anyone have any suggestions for a vegan dessert - MIL is veggie but doesn’t eat eggs or any kind of dried fruit and DHs uncle is full vegan but doesn’t like cheesecake ………. Needs to be something which I can make in advance. Thank you oh wise hive mind!

I've suggested this site further up. Her recipes are excellent (not eggcellent 😄)

https://www.thevegspace.co.uk/

There are loads of vegan brownies recipes, serve with Swedish glace and raspberry coulee? I have made one in the past, it was either the good food or Jane’s patisserie.

other thoughts - https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/jan/22/meera-sodha-recipe-vegan-lemon-tart

Not a meal but a gorgeous festive cocktail for when you're sat in front of the TV watching the Strictly Christmas Special or a Christmas movie!

Nuts and berries cocktail

Sprinkle with some chocolate powder 😍

I'm so in love with this thread. Making so many notes!

There are some vegan dessert recipes here, including a vegan chocolate mousse

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/chefs/philip_khoury

I haven't tried this recipe, I might do for a party next weekend but saw it and thought of your post:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/boozy-brownie-trifle

Reading the comments it is fairly adaptable so might fit the brief?

Alternatively I have made this cake a lot, though never at Christmas, and it is raved about:

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/ultimate-chocolate-cake