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Christmas

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Which Christmas recipes were a hit?

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tassisssss · 28/12/2008 19:08

For us:
Nigella's chocolate and fruit cake - very moist and lovely. Dh declared it the best CHristmas cake ever and neither of us are big fans. Think we'll make another for New Year.

Nigella's wild rice and turkey thing for leftovers with cranberries, nuts and lime. Yummy.

Snowballs (think kiddy truffles) from a kids cook book. Again need to make more.

Nigella's Clementine cake and christmas morning muffins (not that we have them on Christmas am!) are regulars and big hits.

What are yours?

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hazeyjane · 29/12/2008 21:22

I used a nigella brownie recipe and made a mountain out of them for Xmas pudding (a la her Rocky Road one in this years Xmas programme). We couldn't find any plastic reindeers, so had to use some cows and trees from dd's farm set, it still looked beautiful though, and the brownies are the best ever.

bigTillyMint · 29/12/2008 21:26

Family Christmas Cake recipe (must have been all the rum I fed it with), mince pies, Nigellas Christmas morning muffins (made on Christmas morning!!!), Nigellas ham in cocacola, divine boned and rolled stuffed turkey breast from butchers....

blossomsmine · 29/12/2008 22:46

I didn't make the rocky road, but really must do, it sounds wonderful

AbricotsSecs · 29/12/2008 22:50

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franch · 29/12/2008 22:54

Nigella's clementine cake

Nigella's cranberry orange & almond pudding (delicious)

stephla · 29/12/2008 22:57

Delia's turkey soup was sooo good!
www.deliaonline.com/recipes/turkey-soup,788,RC.html

Milliways · 29/12/2008 22:59

Delia's Christmas Ice Cream

Delia's Creamed Turkey en Croute.

alittleteapot · 29/12/2008 23:06

Jamie's turkey pie with bacon and leeks was just delicious, except we had chicken on xmas day so made it with chicken.

NorthernLurker · 29/12/2008 23:11

I made my first ever christmas cake according to Nigella and it is absolutely brilliant - even if I do say so myself

stephla · 29/12/2008 23:25

I wanted to make the Jamie Oliver turkey pie thing but husband told me that there were no leeks to be had.

I have been considering if said turkey pie is causing national shortages in the leek department (it was 2kg of leeks which struck me as a huge amount).

Or is husband just an inept shopper? Nice to have the time for such idle, useless thoughts!

skramblenotdieting · 30/12/2008 00:06

Auntie Bessy's Roast potatos and Roast parsnips were rather yummy and bloody easy to make

RupertTheBear · 30/12/2008 09:20

I made the Jamie Oliver pie too - it was lovely but I only used 1kg of leeks which was loads!

eidsvold · 30/12/2008 09:23

salami tartlets.

SO easy - salami slices pressed into cupcake tin. Mix up egg, little milk and some cheese - i also did a blob of brie in middle. Pour egg mix in - cook in oven at 200 degrees - scrummy.

jooseyfruit · 30/12/2008 09:26

the hairy bikers marmalade glazed gammon.
dribble

SlubberdegullionMitSpeck · 30/12/2008 09:30

Christmas Pud from this year's Nov issue of Good Housekeeping (with dried cherries, cranberries, blue berrie etc rather than standard raisins) HUGE hit.

Nigella's Lamb Tagine on Christmas Eve

Nigella's ham in coke (who would of thought something that sounds so hideous could taste so good)

My christmas cake from an ancient Family Circle cook book.

Cranberry sdauce with clementines (also GH) very nice.

Nigella's girdle buster pie was utterly UTTERLY revolting (thank God is was my mother who had made it and not me). There is a line where you can just have TOO much sugar in one dish, and this thing crossed it, and then some.

LoveBeingAMummyKissingSanta · 30/12/2008 10:45

Another vote for jamies leek and turkey pie, even though we didn't have enough leeks in the garden it was still very yummy. Am making another tonight with the rest of the turkey and adding some of the left over ham too.

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tassisssss · 30/12/2008 13:13

Slubber, that's interesting about the girdlebuster, I really didn't fancy it. Anyone else do it?

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NorthernLurker · 30/12/2008 13:42

I had been thinking about the girdlebuster pie - but with vanilla ice cream? Do you think that would help?

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tassisssss · 30/12/2008 14:02

if i were to make it I'd go for vanilla icecream for sure. I'm not a fan of coffee.

just don't really get it - it's a biscuit base (not that great) with icecream (I'm not a huge fan) and a yummy toffee sauce. I think I'd sooner just go for ice cream and toffee sauce and skip the base...

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NorthernLurker · 30/12/2008 14:32

You could just use the toffee sacuce bit for a banoffe pie couldn't you?

AuntieMaggie · 30/12/2008 14:46

I loved the girdlebuster pie - though my base was a bit thick so a bit hard! The toffee sauce was sooooo yummmmmyyyyyyy - I couldn't stop picking at it while it was cooling. Next time I would only do a thin biscuit base on the bottom and possibly vanilla ice cream.

Will have to try the hairy bikers gammon... sounds lovely though so many ingredients so it may have to wait til I can summon up the strength.

Slubber - how was the lamb tangine??

DP made the beef and ale casserole stew from Jamie's ministry of food book but got impatient and didn't leave i for the 3 hours to cook which I think it needed cos the ale taste was too strong.

AuntieMaggie · 30/12/2008 14:47

LMAO - just remembering DP's face when I put the jack daniels in the toffee sauce - he was mortified!

onebatmotherofgoditschilly · 30/12/2008 14:57

Nigella's Proper Trifle - huge hit as always

I actually made up a slow-cooked pork recipe with fennel seeds, garlic, salt and chilli and it was super. Well not made up, exactly, more compiled it from various others.

Nigel Slater's mincemeat ice-cream from the Observer - v good, added shortbread crumbled so now it's mince pie ice-cream. Far easier than I thought it would be - you use shop-bought fresh custard which removes a rather painful stage of the process.

SlubberdegullionMitSpeck · 30/12/2008 16:45

Maggie, the tagine was excellent, lots of compliments all round. My taste buds were a bit off (full of cold) so I'll be making it again at some point soon.

2 things though:

She uses goose fat to seal the lamb, WAY WAY too much goose fat. I made it the day before, and stuck it in the fridge, next day took a good half a centimetre of solidified fat off the top of the dish .
next time I'll do the red onion/lime garish thing. Without it it did look like a mound of brown.

AuntieMaggie · 30/12/2008 17:17

Thanks slubber

My tastebuds are off too at the moment due to a sore throat which is why there are still loads of treats left in our cupboards!

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