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A cook's Christmas

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December 2023

The renowned recipe writer shares the ingredients of her home-cooked festive feast just don't add pomegranate!

- SARA EMSLIE

A cook's Christmas

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?

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