Real ale fan and one of the masterminds behind London microbrewery Pressure Drop, Sam Smith is a man who knows what differentiates sheer nectar from mere beer. He reckons ale’s a canny Christmas buy, with the best imported craft beers commanding the same price as some very mediocre wines.
OXO French Press on test. The cafetiere comes of age?
Sick of coffee grounds dotting your sink? Then the OXO Goodgrips cafetiere has the answer with a clever update to a classic piece of kitchen kit
David Bullock’s Cornish Sea Salt Co. recipes
Stressed about Christmas dinner? If your answer is’no’, then the chances are you won’t be preparing it. If the daunting task does fall on your shoulders this year, you don’t have to suffer turkey that straddles a fine line between dangerously raw and devastatingly dry. Have a go at my tasty beef instead.
Christmas Cooking Tips with Philip Dundas of PipsDish
Philip Dundas doesn’t go by recipes. He just knows how to cook, and presses his instinctive methods into service rustling up lovely things at PipsDish Kitchen. And most of us could do with heeding his ‘substance over form’philosophy when flapping about like a headless turkey on Christmas Day with 15 dishes on the go.
Big Blue. Get some Gorgonzola in for Christmas
It’s big, it’s blue and it has loads of uses. Get some Gorgonzola and don’t just save it for the cheeseboard.
Caught Short At Chrimbo? Local Shops Save The Day
There’s always something. No matter how military the operation, the Christmas store is guaranteed to be bereft of at least one item that at least one member of the festive clan deems essential to their seasonal enjoyment.’But it won’t be the SAME,’ they wail. No. it won’t. You’re going to make it different, and maybe better.
Town-Topic – Kansas City
Town-Topic in Kansas’s menu remains dedicated to its burger output, offering single, double and triple hamburgers, alongside a ½ lb for fat bastards who can’t get their carnivorous kicks from a triple.
Chateau Leoube Wine Box
Choosing wines for Christmas usually has him dithering undecidedly over the regional shelves; but this year, Alan’s in the mood to bring some Mediterranean sunshine into the depths of a British December.
Paul A Young’s Christmas chocolate truffle recipes
‘Chocolate naturally lends itself to Christmas’, says Paul A Young. So he’s given us a tempting trio of festive recipes to make at home: a gingerbread-spiced truffle, a warming Aztec-inspired chocolate, and one featuring all the flavours that underpin a Christmas pud, without the belly-busting after-effects.
Cakeadoodledoo Festive Recipe- Gingerbread House
A bit of project cookery for kids, their overgrown counterparts, and anyone who fancies themselves handy with the old DIY. And, if it all goes tits-up, it’s both less dangerous and more delicious to eat your way out of than a more ‘industrial’ undertaking.