Stress-free Christmas dinner tips: Plan, cook and avoid leftovers
1 month ago

Stress-free Christmas dinner tips: Plan, cook and avoid leftovers

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Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Know what needs to be ready at what time and plan your space well.” open image in gallery Because the best part of Christmas dinner isn’t the food – it’s the people you share it with How do you do the Christmas food shop and get your quantities right? “Even a small turkey will give you twice what you need for a family of four, based on a portion size of about 300g each, so you’d have plenty of leftovers,” says Andrew. If you are struggling with oven space, don’t try to pile them into the roasting trays, they need a little space and surface contact with the tray to brown and crisp properly,” says Andrew. “At Riverford, we would say that a sustainable Christmas dinner really starts in the fields where the food is grown, so if you can, try and support growers and makers that have ethical and environmental principles at the heart of their businesses, and British growers where you can,” suggests Andrew.

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How to start off Christmas dinner right
3 years ago

How to start off Christmas dinner right

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A properly extravagant Christmas dinner
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Three ingenious recipes to use up Christmas leftovers

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What to do with leftover Christmas dinner?
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What to do with leftover Christmas dinner?

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Christmas dinner essentials: The utensils you need, according to chefs
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Christmas dinner essentials: The utensils you need, according to chefs

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While Christmas will look very different this year, there’s one thing that will remain the same: Christmas dinner. Look at the table for meat or fish you are cooking and when the probe reads that, take it out.” He also recommends a Nutribullet nutritional blender for grinding down spices and coffee for a Christmas cake or pudding, “It will easily …

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