christmas lunch

• 1 Ingredient of the week: turkey
  So you can have a rib of beef, a shoulder of pork, a leg of lamb or even some game; but would it really be Christmas without the turkey? Debates rage – the bird is too big! It’s much drier...

• 2 Gordon Ramsay's cream of cauliflower soup with truffle oil and croutons
  Ingredients (Serves 8) 25g/1oz butter 1 tbsp olive oil 1 large or 2 medium cauliflowers (about 1.1kg/2½lb), stalks removed and cut into florets 1 large potato, about 250g/9oz,...

• 3 Christmas Time, Mistletoe and Wine
  And sherry, port, bubbly... Whether it’s to set your turkey off to perfection or to add some sparkle to a family gathering, wine is an important part of any Christmas celebration. You also don’t...

• 4 Top turkey tips
  Each year the turkey seems to prove a hefty Christmas challenge and rightly so – we are all used to cooking a chicken on a Sunday but the turkey is a bigger beast completely and with all the scare-mongering...