The feast goes on: Stir-fried sprouts with ginger

The feast goes on: Stir-fried sprouts with ginger By Annie Bell Published: 00:02 GMT, 20 December 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 20 December 2020 Food stylist: Louise Kenney. Props stylist: Charlie Phillips This offers lots of potential for serving sprouts beyond their Christmas lunch outing. SERVES 4 3 tbsp rapeseed oil 2 tbsp fine fresh … Read more

The feast goes on: Turkey & mushroom pie

The feast goes on: Turkey & mushroom pie By Annie Bell Published: 00:02 GMT, 20 December 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 20 December 2020 Food stylist: Louise Kenney. Props stylist: Charlie Phillips After all the indulgence of Christmas Day, this uses up the leftover turkey but also gets us back on track with plenty of … Read more

Beauty: Pamper or party? Your choice 

Beauty: Pamper or party? Your choice By Edwina Ings-chambers Published: 00:01 GMT, 20 December 2020 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 20 December 2020 I’ve got you covered, whatever your New Year’s Eve plans FOR A QUIET NIGHT IN I love this time of year: the quiet days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve that seem to … Read more

The feast goes on: Chocolate Nut Clusters

The feast goes on: Chocolate Nut Clusters By Annie Bell Published: 00:01 GMT, 20 December 2020 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 20 December 2020 Food stylist: Louise Kenney. Props stylist: Charlie Phillips Shell-on nuts can hang around long after the chocolates and Christmas desserts have disappeared. So spend half an hour one evening shelling them to … Read more

The feast goes on: Christmas Pud Baked Pears

The feast goes on: Christmas Pud Baked Pears By Annie Bell Published: 00:01 GMT, 20 December 2020 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 20 December 2020 Food stylist: Louise Kenney. Props stylist: Charlie Phillips A second life for the Christmas pudding or cake that is doused with honey and lemon and baked to a fudgey centre in … Read more

From Bridgerton to Soul: The best on demand TV to watch this week 

NETFLIX   Bridgerton  Regency London. Beautiful debutante Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and the devilishly handsome but rakish Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page) are faking a romance – an arrangement that suits them both.  A cast that seems to consist of at least half of the actors in Britain (including Ben Miller, Bessie Carter, Polly Walker and … Read more

From Black Narcissus to Britain’s Got Talent Christmas Spectacular and Dunkirk: The best festive TV

DRAMA     All Creatures Great And Small: Christmas Special This drama series about vets in the chocolate-box Yorkshire Dales is first-class comfort viewing (Callum Woodhouse, above)  This drama series about vets in the chocolate-box Yorkshire Dales is first-class comfort viewing. It’s Christmas Eve and James is trying to come to terms with the fact that … Read more

A Christmas Carol review: If ever there was a theatre production to experience live, this is it 

If ever there was a theatre production to experience live and not on screen, A Christmas Carol starring Andrew Lincoln at The Old Vic is it By Robert Gore-Langton for Event Magazine Published: 22:00 GMT, 19 December 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 19 December 2020 A Christmas Carol Streaming until Thursday, 2hrs        … Read more