Recipe for Roast or Baked Apples

TRY TO snatch a few hours this week to stock up your pantry for Christmas.

Cranberry sauce is also delicious served with roast turkey, game and some rough pâtés and terrines.

Not surprisingly, many people hate Brussels sprouts because invariably they are over cooked.

I love bread sauce but if I hadn’t been reared on it I might never have tried it — the recipe sounds so dull! Serve it with roast chicken, turkey and guinea fowl.

Serves 4 — 6

THE tradition that every member of the Allen household could have a wish that was likely (note, never a firm promise) to come true, was, of course, a ruse to get all the children to help with heavy work of stirring the pudding.

We ate this gorgeous tart in a little restaurant, near Castellini in Chianti.

Every Saturday during November there is a ‘Fruit Clinic’ from 11am to 4pm at the Country Choice Shop where you can discuss anything about raisins, sultanas and currants. For people baking their first Christmas cake take your list for the best guidance and advice about exact quantities of fruit. www.countrychoice.ie

Recipe for Coffee Sabaudo.