A very quick post before I forget…
Christmas Eve
Starter was home made (by my mum) chicken liver pate with freshly made melba toast, followed by slow cooked pork shoulder (marinated in a soy sauce and tahini mix, based on a Nigella slow cook recipe) with boulangere potatoes, cabbage with nigella seeds (also a Nigella recipe) and mixed green veg. Dessert was a gingerbread cake (recipe from BBCgoodfood) made by my 13 yr old daughter. All finished off with cheese and tiffin.
Christmas Day
Traditional turkey with all the trimmings, following a starter of Smoked Salmon (always supplied by Springs Salmon in West Sussex) and traditional christmas pudding, this year supplied by the Ultimate Plum Pudding Company
Boxing Day
Left over cold turkey, cold ham, home made winter coleslaw (a Jamie Oliver recipe), green salad with honey and soy dressing and jacket potatoes. Dessert was Ottolenghi flourless coconut and chocolate cake (from Sweet) as it was my Dad’s birthday
27th December
Tartiflette made with leftover jacket potatoes and ham and mixed with some gently fried onions and topped with a mixture of cheese, heated in the oven and then grilled to crisp the topping
This brief post and listing does no justice to the hours of searching through recipe books that I did in early December 🙂
a geriatric mother 
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