Christmas Festive Fare Roundup – An easy to source selection of fabulous festive fare recipes from Lavender & Lovage, all in one place for ease and convenience. Happy Christmas to all my readers!

Your One Place Post for Christmas Recipe Ideas

Hello and welcome to my Christmas Festive Fare Roundup post! Today I am sharing a selection of Christmas and New Year inspired recipes, in one place to make it easier for you to browse and select some, hopefully, to make and bake. There’s a stunning centrepiece Vegan dinner, a cheese board that will delight all who see it, as well as pies, tarts, veggies, baking and of course that all important cocktail. All of the recipes are tried and tested, several times in many cases, and a couple are featured in my newly published cookbook, Lavender & Lovage: A Culinary Notebook of Memories & Recipes From Home & Abroad. I’ve listed all the recipes below by category: starters, sides, mains and puddings etc, as well some baking ideas and a few quick sweet treats too. I will be back before Christmas, but wanted to post this now so you all have time to go shopping to buy the ingredients. Enjoy perusing the following list and please let me know what you choose too! Karen

Christmas Festive Fare Roundup

Breakfast & Snacks:
Recipes for a Welsh Christmas Breakfast

Truffle & Brie Festive Pasta Bake


Overnight Sage & Sausage Breakfast-Supper Bake

Bubble and Squeak with Peppadew Peppers

Christmas Morning Breakfast Bake

Smoked Salmon “Egg in a Basket” (Egg in a Hole)

Appies & Starters:
Cheese and Celery Pinwheels (Whirls)

French Bayonne Ham and Walnut Salad

“Cheesemas Tree” and Quick Pickles

Party Food: Devilled Egg Baguette Bites

A Duet of Christmas Canapés and Champagne

Cocktails & Drinks:

A Traditional English Wassail Recipe

Sparkling Mead & Damson Cocktail

Sides and Accompaniments:
Roast Parsnips with Brown Sugar and Cinnamon

Christmas Sausage, Sage and Bacon Stuffing Loaf

Spiced Red Cabbage with Apples Recipe

The Calendar Girls Curvaceous Cranberry and Kumquat Sauce with Port

Main Courses:
Vegan Christmas Stuffed Roasted Squash with Pesto

Mini Beef Wellingtons with Boozy Berry Sauce

Christmas Eve Fireside Supper Chicken & Ham Pie

Christmas & New Year Cumbrian Chimney Pot Pie

A Small Christmas Dinner: Bacon Wrapped Turkey Breast and Sausage Stuffing Loaf

Christmas Eve Comfort Food – Christmas Carollers’ Casserole: Elizabethan Spiced Beef Stew

Marmalade Glazed Ham/Gammon Recipe

Historical Roast Turkey Recipe: Gilded Saffron & Butter Basted Turkey with Herb Garland

Desserts & Puddings:
Celebration Raspberry and Almond Trifle


Festive Fun and Frivolity! Tea Cup After Eight Chocolate Mint Mousse

Duvet Apples & Frosty Mornings! Festive Baked Apples with Mincemeat and Honey

Quick and Easy Microwave Mincemeat Christmas Pudding Recipe

Sweet Endings with Pomegranates, Pudding and Pavlova

Baking, Cakes, Tarts and Bread:
Cardamom, Honey and Lemon Madeleines

“Tear & Share” Christmas Tree Cinnamon Rolls

Spiced Cranberry & Walnut Bundt Cake

Moelleux aux Groseilles (Redcurrant Cake)


Dorothy Hartley, Cattern Cakes & Lace and a Victorian Epiphany Tart Recipe

Countdown to Christmas: Mincemeat Scones for the Christmas Tea Time Table

Sugar Frosted Orange & Brandy Mince Pies


Spiced Apple and Cranberry Chocolate Tiffin


Sweets & Chocolates:
Chocolate Orange Cake Truffles





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Jean | Delightful Repast says
OMGoodness! So many wonderful things here, I don’t know where to start, Karen! The parsnips, the stuffed squash, oh my. Thank you for sharing such a delicious collection.