This is a real mid-Atlantic dish: British mincemeat meets North American cranberries, pecans and corn syrup. And it is really good.
Christmas
Cranberry Relish Recipe
Use as a garnish for meat. Serve it cold.
Cranberry Sauce (Light)
Cranberry Sauce should be healthy — after all, it’s cranberries! Most though are overloaded with a boatload of calories from added refined sugar — at a time of year, usually, when you’d rather use the calories up on so many other things.
Creamed Spinach (2) Recipe
For many people, a creamed spinach dish is often pivotal in getting them to give spinach another chance, after a childhood of being served boiled spinach out of a can.
Cumberland Rum Butter Recipe
This is a thick, spooning sauce that you are meant to spoon onto a hot dessert, where it melts. Good with hot mincemeat pies or steamed puddings.
Cumberland Rum Nicky Recipe
This is a sugar and fruit pie recipe from Cumberland County, England, that in the late 1700s reflected the growing variety of food ingredients available owing to trade with the Caribbean.
Designated Driver Punch
Designated Driver Punch gives the designated drivers something interesting to drink in return for their martyrdom.
Dinner Rolls Recipe
The actual work for these rolls will only take about 20 minutes. People will go mad for these classic dinner rolls.
Easy Baked Rosemary Onions
Some baked onion recipes seem to think you have an army of sous-chefs to back you. This recipe will taste just as impressive.
Glazed Parsnips and Turnips
These roasted, caramelized root vegetables taste fantastic.
Hard Sauce
Hard sauce is a thick condiment made of sweetened, flavoured butter, and served with desserts, typically warm ones.
Insalata di Rinforzo
This healthy pickled vegetable salad is more like an antipasto. It’s traditional in Italy on Christmas Eve, but it’s also made throughout the year and it makes a great summer salad.
Lentil, Apple & Bacon Soup
Even those who think lentils are boring will be after second bowls of this soup.
Limerick Ham Recipe
The juniper-berries make a change from the standard-issue cloves. And what’s not to like about a gin-soaked main course?
Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes
Hands down the best-ever make-ahead recipe for mashed potatoes. Do not be afraid to serve these at Thanksgiving or Christmas, they are even better than regular mashed potatoes, and it’s one less vegetable side to have to worry about at the last minute.
Manuellos Recipe
This is dead easy, and your guests will hoover these up. And, it looks stunning.
Marshmallow Sweet Potatoes
A Thanksgiving side dish that is now traditional in the U.S. Putting marshmallows on sweet potatoes originated sometime in the 1920s.
Marzipan Recipe
A classic Marzipan recipe.
Mashed Sweet Potato with Parmesan
You can make this up to a day ahead, and reheat at the last minute in the microwave.
Mock Marzipan Recipe
For those with nut allergies, you can use another flavouring such as orange or rosewater, if you wish.
Mulled Wine Recipe
Make sure that, if the glasses you serve this in are thin, you give your guests a paper napkin to hold the glass with owing to the heat.
Mushroom & Squash Rolls Recipe
Talk about fusion food! Greek phyllo pastry, North American squash, in an Asian-style spring roll!
Mushroom Bread Pudding Recipe
A savoury mushroom puffed bread pudding side dish, also nice served with chicken or turkey as a change from stuffing.
Parsnip Mash
You can make this a few hours ahead, and then reheat using a bit of milk or butter.