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A cook's Christmas
Country Homes & Interiors
|December 2023
The renowned recipe writer shares the ingredients of her home-cooked festive feast just don't add pomegranate!
Describe your typical Christmas.
At home with family. We have roast goose now-we had it for the first time two years ago and my two sons (18 and 25 years) loved it, so now it is the tradition. I like that about Christmas: the continuity. I tend not to do anything exotic and embrace the tradition. There are no pomegranate seeds in our Brussels sprouts!
Do you cook in advance and pop things in the freezer?
I am not a freezer person at all; it's just full of chicken stock. I make some things, such as gravadlax, every year. You can make it three or four days in advance.
Any favourite dishes?
This story is from the December 2023 edition of Country Homes & Interiors.
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