River Cottage Christmas Fayre
About Me: Christmas; it’s a celebration of a year well spent and a chance to feast on fine winter food with friends and family. So, not surprisingly, at River Cottage we love the whole holiday season. In fact we love it so much that this year we decided to throw our first-ever River Cottage Christmas Fayre. In an evening of traditional festive British foods, look out for deliciously different ways to stuff a roast goose, a trio of recipes for that wonderful winter root celeriac, Hugh’s take on a sweet chutney, luxuriously rich Christmas bread and tips for how to fill the perfect hamper with hand made edible goodies. All that plus a festive foraged cocktail, a ginger bread house competition, a caroling Christmas party and hangover cures!
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Pam’s Apple and Pear Fruit Cheese or Fruit Pastilles
Not quite your traditional cheese! A delicious treat to liven up your cheeseboard.
Ginger Bread Recipe - The House That We Built!
Our other Ginger Bread recipe is for a normal family-sized house. If however you want to build to impress, you may want to scale up to this recipe - as used for our house for the River Cottage Christmas Fayre!
Ginger Bread Recipe
This makes enough gingerbread for a family-portioned house, if you are after your own HQ, check out the recipe for our Ginger Bread RCHQ that we made for the Christmas Fayre! (The photo is of our ginger bread RCHQ, which requires a larger mix than this family-sized recipe. If you aspire to build big, check out our other recipe for the house that we built - also under our recipes).
Celeriac Soup
Take advantage of the lovely taste of celeriac and a range of seasonal vegetables with this hearty warming soup
Celeriac and Chilli Gratin
Celeriac has to be one of the most distinctive tasting, and under-explored of all root vegetables. Pick one up next time you go shopping and give this recipe a go, we're sure you'll be back for more!
Bloody Bullshot
Quick and simple stock-based soup. Check out the roasted tomato passata recipe too.
Restorative Asian Inspired Chicken Soup
In need of a hangover cure?..
Sea Buckthorn Fizz
You may have been lucky enough to have sampled this at the River Cottage Christmas Fayre, and if you would like to try making some for yourself - give this a go!
Tim's 'Bloody Bastard'
This is Tim’s twist on a Bloody Mary, named after a line in the cult film ‘Withnail & I’. You'll find more great booze recipes on the River Cottage booze course with Steven Lamb and Mark Diacono. http://www.rivercottage.net/shop/product/booze/
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