Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities

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Illustrated with over 250 fabulous full-colour photographs by Lis Parsons (photographer of the bestselling Nigella Express), including method photos and lavish spreads, Nigella Christmas is in a new, larger and irresistible format.

Helena Garcia’s Book of Gingerbread also features here, and is smile-inducingly represented by her Gingerbread Present Brownies and Gingerbread Eggnog Cocktail. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. What is the use of fabulous food and blip-free efficiency if everyone is cowed into misery by the stress you give off?

As well as offering the reader an array of inspired new recipes – from clams with chorizo to Guinness gingerbread – Nigella rounds up her no-nonsense kitchen kit must-haves in the way of equipment and magical standby ingredients. But I do want to draw your attention, as well, to the Turkey Breast Stuffed with Italian Sausage and Marsala-Steeped Cranberries. Rich rich chocolate pudding and sauce- would benefit from creme fraiche or ice cream to cut through .

These are actually edible tree decorations and in years gone by I have made them to decorate my tree with. Merry Christmas, Buon Natale, Happy Holidays and here's to cooking and eating our way into a fantastic new year! The book begins with Christmassy cocktails, canapés and how to cater for lots of people without getting crazy (the later applies throughout the book – Nigella is a practical goddess), and moves through soups, salads, and sauces to suppers, big main dinners, sweet stuff and baking, edible presents, a full scale brunch menu, hot drinks, and two serious cures for overindulgence (as you might expect, they aren’t pristine – “I will never be a nil by mouth kind of person”).Favourite Things About the Book: Cookbooks that are dedicated to Christmas are always a joy to read and cook from, even if our hot Australian Christmas doesn’t lend itself to all the recipes. The cake itself was very moist and although the chocolate flavour wasn't overwhelming, it left a nice aftertaste and added an extra dimension. And, of course, exciting and inspiring variations for the Main Event itself - from traditional super-juicy turkey, festive ginger-baked ham, special trimmings and the Ultimate Christmas Pud, all the way to the special vegetarian Christmas feast, by way of goose or pork-and-cranberry options and a Prodigious Pavlova.

The cranberry mincemeat pies are essential for my Christmas, and yet it took me a few years before I made the bourbon butter that accompanies them. The way she suggests cooking it is incredibly difficult — there is hardly any liquid so the pumpkin kept sticking to the pan, so I had to keep adding water through the whole process. Here is everything you need to make your Christmas easy and enjoyable, from scrumptious cakes and puddings to the main event itself – turkey with all the trimmings, a vegetarian Christmas dinner or a wide range of delicious alternatives. My mother always served her Brussels Sprouts with a lot of buttered chestnuts (and cooked and peeled her own).This is particularly fab for a party, when you can cook it and slice it (easily) into generous slabs. Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. I am a recent convert to Nigella’s cookery, and am so looking forward to trying some of these recipes this coming Christmas. The one drink I made, a Poinsettia (sparkling wine, triple sec, and cranberry juice), while winsome in the crystal, only garnered an 'okay' on taste.