Christmas Food
Explore festive recipes and cooking ideas for Christmas meals and celebrations. From traditional turkey to creative sides and desserts, find inspiration for your feast.
Boxing Day Chill Out Food
Boxing Day morning usually starts with a feeling of relief; the pressure and build-up to yesterday’s celebrations is over. Even if you’re still catering...
Christmas Chutneys
There is something deeply satisfying about bottling your own preserves. Somehow it relates to that inner instinct to store food for the winter or capture the...
Christmas Drinks: Egg Nog
Of course twinkling lights and gift giving are great, but one of the easiest ways to get into the Christmas spirit is still the ingesting of Christmas spirit...
Christmas Party Hangover Cures
Although it’s not big or clever to set out to get steaming drunk, it’s a fact of life that we all end up having one too many at some point over Christmas...
Festive Breakfasts and Brunches
What’s the rush? Whether or not you have family and friends to stay during the Christmas break, breakfast or brunch can be an occasion too. When no-one has...
Food for Unexpected Guests at Christmas
People calling in unexpectedly over Christmas need not fill you with dread if you have a few tasty snacks stashed away in the freezer. It’s lovely (usually...
Food to Freeze in Advance for Christmas
There is no reason to be stressed over Christmas dinner if you take time to plan ahead. No-one wants to be up at 5.30 to boil giblets for gravy when it’s f...
Gingerbread Men and Homemade Fudge
Christmas is the time for treats - tasty biscuits, yummy cakes and of course delicious gingerbreads and homemade fudge! No matter how times change, or how Ch...
How to Choose Christmas Cheeses
No true Christmas feast would be complete without serving a wonderful cheeseboard to end the meal. Here Lovely Christmas gives you tips on how to choose Chri...
How to Make Christmas Mince Pies
All the way from the fanciest tables in London down to the simplest of family dinner parties in small towns, no English Christmas is ever complete without a...
How To Make Mulled Wine
Sure beer is always tasty – especially when you go for one of the many Belgian specialty brands. Wine is great too, and it’s actually healthy for your he...
How To Make The Perfect Christmas Pudding
If you want to make the perfect Christmas pudding, there is one ingredient that you’ll need in abundance which will make all the difference to the end resu...
Ideas for Using Leftover Christmas Turkey
Leftover turkey does not have to mean turkey sandwiches every day between Boxing Day and New Years’ Eve. All it takes is a few new ideas to use up your lef...
Interesting Christmas Dinner Additions
We all love the traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings. Even when we think about doing something different one year, we invariably miss the turk...
Making Christmas Cookies
Ask anyone what they love about Christmas and you can take a bet one of the most popular answers will be Christmas baking. Cookies are delicious all year rou...
Tasty Canapes for Christmas Guests
Delicious canapés are a lovely part of Christmas. Tasty treats can seem like too much faff the rest of the year but make perfect sense at Christmas. They’...
Tasty Christmas Eve Suppers
With the anticipation of tomorrow’s traditional feast, Christmas Eve supper can be a difficult meal to plan. We feel we should provide a meal that’s memo...
The History of the Yule Log
Who doesn’t like a nice hearth fire on a cold winter night? The flickering of flames is a spectacle worth hours of gentle staring. The whole thing has an u...
Traditional Shortbread at Christmas
Isn’t it funny how smells can take you back in time? The smell of school dinners can suddenly take you back to the classroom, while one whiff of the seasid...
Vegetarian Christmas Meals
Whether you’re vegetarian or not, these sumptuous vegetarian Christmas meals will impress those guests or family members who are. These meat-free dishes ar...
Which Turkey to Order?
Choosing a turkey can be a confusing business, but with a little background know-how, you should be well on your way to selecting a fine specimen this Christ...