My Easy Christmas Jam Recipe is fruity and delicious and makes a wonderful homemade gift. It’s a cranberry and apple jam, infused with orange and mixed spice for a fabulous festive flavour. This jam is perfect for teatime or serving alongside your Christmas turkey instead of cranberry sauce. How this Easy Christmas Jam Recipe evolved!…
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Slow Cooker Beef Brisket with Onion Gravy
This Slow Cooker Beef Brisket with Onion Gravy recipe is so quick and easy to prepare and results in delicious, melt-in-the mouth beef perfect for a Sunday Roast! The onion gravy is super simple to make as you just add cornflour to the cooking juices/onion and heat through at the end! What is Beef Brisket?…
Christmas Bundt Cake
Christmas Bundt Cake is a delicious apple Bundt cake with cinnamon, a layer of mincemeat and an almond topping finished off with a dusting of icing sugar. Can also be made in a conventional round tin. The story behind Christmas Bundt Cake For many years I saw other bloggers with Nordic Ware Bundt tins and…
Lentil & Ham Soup
Lentil & Ham Soup is made with carrots, courgettes, and a hint of curry for a hearty, winter-warming soup. Perfect for using up leftover glazed Christmas ham and stock! This soup came about after Christmas one year when the fridge was heaving with leftover stock and roasted gammon (or ham as it’s known once cooked)!…
Stuffed Turkey Breast Steaks in Blankets
Stuffed Turkey Breast Steaks in Blankets serve 2 upwards so perfect for a small scale Christmas celebration! Turkey breast steaks are stuffed with sausage meat flavoured with orange zest and parsley, then wrapped in bacon and finished off with fronds of rosemary. Small Scale Christmas Dinner At this time of year it’s expected that most…
Snowball (Eggnog) Curd with step-by-step video!
Snowball (Eggnog) Curd has all the flavour of a festive Snowball cocktail intertwined with classic lemon curd. Perfect for gifting or enjoying with a croissant on Christmas morning! In recent years the Snowball cocktail has become the favourite Christmas drink in our household. It’s is a mixture of Advocaat, lemonade (carbonated) with optional squeeze of…
Risalamande (Danish Rice Pudding) with Cherry Sauce
Traditional Risalamande (Danish Rice Pudding) with Cherry Sauce is a creamy and delicious rice pudding laced with sherry and almonds, served with a sweet, warm cherry sauce. The History of Risalamande Risalamande finds it origins in the French Ris à l’amande and has been served on Christmas Eve in Denmark since around 1900. A Personal…
Foolproof Rich Chocolate Mousse – with step-by-step video!
Foolproof Rich Chocolate Mousse is intensely chocolatey, fluffy, and decadently delicious! Made with just 4 ingredients your guests will never know how easy this was to make! Foolproof Rich Chocolate Mouse is for people who don’t have the careful hand and eye that Nigel Slater speaks about when making chocolate mousse. I don’t like recipes…
Easy Cranberry Curd including Power Blender Option
Easy Cranberry Curd is a beautifully fruity and festive preserve, perfect for gifting or just enjoying as a spread at breakfast or tea-time! Also makes a great addition to desserts and bakes! How Easy Cranberry Curd came about! It’s cranberry season so when I came across a punnet of these red jewels for 50 pence…
Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake (Gammeldags Æblekage)
Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake (Gammeldags Æblekage) comprises of layers of stewed apple & crushed oat cookies topped with whipped cream & grated dark chocolate. My easy twist on this traditional Danish dessert! Why I Developed Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake Today I’m sharing my delicious Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake (Gammeldags Æblekage) with you which despite the…