Darina Allen: Three recipes for cooking for Christmas crowds

"For me, the days around Christmas are perfect for informal parties around the table or tables, sometimes guests spill into another room."

Darina Allen's Festive Roast Fish Three Ways.

Everyday life whizzes by so fast, don’t know about you but mine is full of good resolutions, many I don’t manage to achieve.

As I get older, many of my best intentions seem to be vague plans to contact and get together with an old friend or friends I haven’t seen for ages.