Get Christmas planned early with recipes from Simon Hopkinson and Nigel Slater, gifts for food lovers, and delicious seasonal cocktails and mocktails
Hey ho, it’s that time of year again. Well, not quite, but we thought we would start in good time. If only because the best ingredient you can put in your cooking at Christmas is organisation. Now is when to make the list of what you will be having for lunch, rather than two days before. Then sort the shopping into two lists: one whose contents can be bought in advance, the second those seasonal goodies that need to be collected no more than a day or two before.
If this all sounds a bit Marie Kondo, I can only say that the years’ eating I enjoy best have been those in which I have put pen to paper a good few weeks beforehand. Nothing de-stresses like a list or two, or better still, a loose countdown to which you can aspire, if not exactly stick to. Jay Rayner seems to know what his family will be sitting down to already. He runs through his Christmases past and present as a food critic.
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