Christmas Cookbook

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Hairy Bikers 12 Days of Christmas

sorbets, chutneys, main meals like Christmas turkey with two stuffings or roast goose with ginger and orange stuffing, Christmas dessert recipes such as Christmas pudding or cranberry, date and macadam pudding and vegetarian Christmas dinner recipes like vegetable nut and spinach roast with wild mushroom gravy. The international traditional Christmas recipes section includes foods such as Transylvanian Terrine from Lili, Dave's wife, which is made from pig's trotters.

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The Christmas dinks recipes include mulled wine, sloe gin and egg nog recipes as well as more unusual Christmas drinks such as royal gin fizz and Christmas pudding vodka.

For those with a sweet tooth, much like The Hairy Bikers, there are easy Christmas recipes for creamy Christmas fudge, orange truffles, candied peel, panettone, stollen, chocolate Yule log, panforte and Christmas pudding fondants.

Si King and Dave Myers (the real names of The Hairy Bikers) go a stage further than most Christmas cookbooks and add sections which include edible gifts such as pickled pears in a jar, Boxing Day breakfast meals such as cinnamon swirls or gypsy toast and even a Christmas nibbles section which has a tasty homemade parsnip crisps recipe. The Hairy Bikers' 12 Days of Christmas: Fabulous Festive Recipes to Feed Your Family and Friends continues this good value Christmas cook book by included some New Year's Day recipes such as Gin and Tonic Sorbet, Salmon Pastillas with salad and salmon roe and for dessert a luscious chestnut and chocolate roulade.

This Christmas cookbook by The Hairy Bikers provides hearty food that is needed for the winter months. The Christmas recipes are easy to follow with ingredients that are commonly found in supermarkets throughout the UK. Each of the recipes for Christmas has stunning photographs by photographer Cristian Barnett that show your Christmas menu will look. The Hairy Bikers recognise that Christmas is a time to spend with families and make preparation before the day as simple as possible to help reduce the time you spend in the kitchen. They also include a Christmas countdown section which is broken down by times so that you know when to make the brandy sauce, steam the Christmas pudding or give attention to the roast potatoes.

Boxing Day is a traditional day of leftovers and this Christmas cookbook has handy recipes to help bring out the flavours of the leftover turkey. These recipes include cold turkey and ham pie with cranberry topping, a chunky turkey curry, a filling turkey and vegetable soup, goose risotto and turkey and ham pancakes.

It would be easy to judge The Hairy Bikers' 12 Days of Christmas: Fabulous Festive Recipes to Feed Your Family and Friends as being a bloke's book, especially after reading the pages about the advantages of drinking beer to cleanse the palate over Christmas dinner or the section about how to serve cheese to bring out flavours and how to create the perfect cheeseboard. However this Christmas cook book has universal appeal offering something for everyone such as easy to follow Christmas recipes, humour in the kitchen, quick Christmas dishes, fun photos and a simple guide to a Christmas menu. A particularly useful section depicts and describes all the parts of the Christmas turkey and how to get the best out of each part of this seasonal bird.

The Hairy Bikers' 12 Days of Christmas: Fabulous Festive Recipes to Feed Your Family and Friends was first published in hardback in 2010 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. It is worth buying just to see the last photograph of Si King and Dave Myers which sums up the time after Christmas dinner!

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