cranberry tart with hot toffee sauce An excellent Christmas pudding for eating at any time when you have lots of people to feed. It has a good balance of sweet and sour.serves 6for the cranberry tart 500g cranberries, fresh or froze
creamy celeriac soup with chestnuts recipe This soup is very rich and creamy, yet it contains no cream, with almond milk used instead. If the celeriac is organic, remove the minimal amount of peel as the nutrients lie just beneath the skin.
Danish glögg recipe This is the best of all spicy, hot red wine recipes to serve at a firework party. It knocks the socks off the usual over-sweet mulled wine or Glühwein.makes about 12 glasses 1 orange, studde
crispy cumin and caraway squid recipe The fragrant tastes of cumin and caraway are delicious with squid. This has to be eaten hot, so for a party have everything ready beforehand and fry the calamari at the last minute.serves 12-15
cream of celeriac and Jerusalem artichoke soup recipe This creamy, smooth-textured soup is lovely as a starter for a big winter dinner, but is filling, so don’t serve large bowls of it. This recipe would be plenty for eight people for a one-course lun
buckwheat pancakes recipe I love making real blinis with whisked egg white, but these pancakes are quicker and easier to make. If you want, you can make a huge batch and freeze them. These taste delicious with Gravadlax
brussels sprouts salad with an orange and mustard dressing recipe The great thing about shredded Brussels sprouts is that you get lots of the green tender part, always the nicest bit of any brassica. That's particularly true when eating them raw, as here. Use the th
picking and preparing a winter salad Sarah loves collecting leaves for a winter salad. Here are her simple tricks to the perfect salad.Pick lettuce leaves for crunch and colour. January is not the best month for these, but we have a few
braised chicory recipe This braised chicory recipe is an excellent quick winter dish. Braised chicory is delicious eaten on its own with crusty bread dipped in the lemony cream. It’s also good with grilled, roasted or b
blood orange, lemon and pink grapefruit marmalade recipe A wonderful, rich, tart marmalade.makes about 4-5 x 450g jars 1.5kg blood oranges 2 pink grapefruits 2 lemons 1 teaspoon salt About 2kg sugar with pectin Drop the whole or
Bea's stuffed cabbage leaves recipe This is Bea Csap's recipe. She is from Hungary and is our gardener here on the farm. The stuffed cabbage leaves are excellent eaten on their own, dipped into natural yoghurt or with sauerkraut.
Sarah's Superfoods: Kale recipes The recipes in this article first appeared in Country Living in January 2015. Healthy eating is a vast subject and a lot of what we read about it is contradictory. First, one study tells us the
chicory and blood orange salad recipe Putting fruit in a salad may seem a bit retro but don't worry, this salad looks beautiful and is ideal as a light winter first course when you're heading towards a rich, meaty main. A squeez
Banbury cakes recipe Containing slightly less sweet mincemeat, these Banbury cakes are brilliantly versatile. They are lovely as a pudding with double cream, or for tea, and absolutely delicious with a lump of crumbly
chard and coconut soup recipe This is one of my favourite delicious, fresh-tasting and yet comforting winter soup.serves 6–8 2 medium sized onions 2 cloves garlic Slurp of olive oil 1.5 L vegetable stock 400 ml (1 t
celeriac salad with apple, pine nuts and prosciutto recipe Here is one of the best winter salads, celeriac remoulade, taken one step further. Ideal as a starter for a winter dinner or as the main dish for lunch, it's also fantastic topped with a slice of t