Christmas Lunch can be really stressful, especially if you are the one hosting. You have to do the shopping, the cooking, tasting and buying the wines and champagne, buying the decorations, place settings, name cards and plan the games and entertainment too. There are lots of ways to reduce the stress by some careful planning, shopping and some cheats.
Today, you can buy almost all your Christmas lunch ready prepared. They come in over ready packaging, on beautiful presentation platters that you just have to unpack and serve.
Here are some food and drink ideas for the perfect Christmas party, without the stress.
Pineapple tarts are little short crust pastry tarts with home made pineapple jam. In Malaysia, these are made for special ocassions like Chinese New Year, Deepavali and Hari Raya (Eid). Families used to make it but in this age of “I don’t know how she does it”, we tend to buy them from the many…
If you have been on the tube recently, you probably would have seen ads for the new recipe box service, Mindful Chef. I was sent a box to roadtest recently as I was keen to see what recipes they suggest that can be done in 15 minutes. I like the idea of recipe boxes as…
This is a recipe we cooked at the Atelier Des Chefs, a recipe that was created by Andre Dupin for Total Greek Yoghurt.It is a very fresh dish and will be very easy to make for dinner parties as you can prepare most of it before hand. This serves 6 people. Ingredients 12 Fillets of…
When you have abundant sunshine, the produce you get in the region is plentiful, colourful and delicious. The people from Fragata are running a competition to win a cooking day with Jose Pizarro of the Pizarro Restaurant in Bermondsey. They duly sent along a hamper with a selection of goodies like capers, black olives, green…
This was the Vegetarian Butternut Squash Tagine we made at the Total Greek Masterclass. Personally, I would leave out the peppers and add some lamb and slow cook it til the meat is tender. The spiced butternut squash that was fried were delicious to eat by itself. You must try this. Delicious. A lovely…
For Curry Week, make this quick and easy Spicy Minced Lamb Curry Wrap. Really quick to cook and easy too. Less than 30 minutes to make and so delicious. Take the leftovers to the office for lunch, better than a takeaway.
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