Prep Time 20 minutes - Total Time 1 hour - Serves 4 Regardless of who you are, where are you are from or what you believe in or not, I guarantee we can all agree in one thing! And that is that a Sunday roast or Christmas dinner would not be the same without a good old roast potato. When it comes to the perfect roast potato we are talking about a golden crispy outer layer with a beautiful fluffy middle. To achieve this it all starts with selecting the right potato for the job

Prep Time 5 minutes - Total Time 50 minutes - Serves 5 You can’t have Christmas dinner or any roast without some roasted carrots. These are so good that people will be fighting over them hahaha. Side note, these roasted carrots also make for a great soup. Just whiz up with some stock. Ingredients 1 kg of carrots. 3 tbsps of orange & whisky marmalade. 1 large orange. Ganish Pomegranates. Fresh coriander. Method Place the marmalade and the juice from half of the orange into a s

Prep Time 5 minutes - Total Time 35 minutes - Serves 2 Aldi have decided to celebrate Christmas all over again in the name of Junemas! So they asked me to come up with a mouth-watering recipe using their Junemas range (available in stores now). I selected 2 Gressingham spatchcock poussin which are flavoured with sea salt & four pepper seasoning. I also made a sticky glaze using the new jalapeño chilli jam mixed with freshly squeezed orange. Roasted in the oven and finished of

Prep Time 5 minutes - Total Time 15 minutes - Serves 2 If like me you hate the dreaded Brussels sprout that raises its ugly head every year, it’s time to love them. Don’t run and hide anymore, don’t avoid them in the supermarket! Instead, pick up a bunch and give them a go in this quick and easy Christmas pasta recipe, it’s a game-changer! Ingredients 2 good quality sausages, skinned and broken up into little nuggets. 1 small red onion, finely diced. 6 brussels sprouts, finel

Prep Time 10 minutes + marinating - Total Time 2 hours 30 minutes - Serves 5 This dish could not be any more Christmassy, well maybe if I used reindeer instead of lamb hahaha. Classic flavours mulled wine, cranberries, clementines, star anise. I recon Mr and Mrs Claus would love it. Ingredients 1 kg of diced lamb shoulder. 7 juniper berries, lightly crushed. 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary, roughly chopped. 1 large onion, roughly diced. 50 g of dried cranberries. 3 carrots, cut in

Prep Time 5 minutes - Total Time 20 minutes - Makes 10 - 12 It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas and with my mince pie wheels, it’s going to taste a lot like it as well. If you normally buy mince pies and leave one out on Christmas Eve how about having a go at making these this year. A great activity to do with the kids and I’m sure the big man in red will enjoy them with a little glass of something nice. Ingredients 400 g of good quality mincemeat. 4 pieces of stem g

Prep Time 5 - Total Time 20 minutes - Makes 1 Christmas for me is all about food, family, friends, presents under the Christmas tree, snow (hopefully) and more food. Now Christmas dinner or even cheese and crackers would not be complete without cranberry sauce. And the smell in the kitchen when you make this is incredible. Ingredients 1 large Bramley cooking apple, peeled and cut into cubes. 400 g of frozen cranberry’s. 150 g of caster sugar. 1 tbsp of ground mix spice. 1 tsp