Brie & Pickle Pastry Wreath

Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 15 minutes Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 320g ready roll puff pastry

• 6tbsp Cottage Delight Perfect Party Pickle (320g jar)

• 200g brie cheese, sliced

• 2 tbsp pistachio nuts roughly chopped

• 1 egg, beaten

Method

• Pre-heat your oven to 200ºC/180ºC fan/gas 6 and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

• Roll the pastry and cut a large circle out of the pastry.

• Lay the large pastry circle on the prepared baking sheet.

• Mark an inner circle with a medium-sized bowl, but please do not press all the way through the pastry.

• Cut four cuts into the centre circle, this will create 8 triangles.

• Spread the Perfect Party Pickle around the outer circle then top with the brie and pistachios.

• From the four cuts, bring one triangle of the centre outwards over the filling as well as bringing the outer edge of pastry inwards. Press the two together and continue all the way around with the remaining 7 triangles until you have a wreath.

• Brush with beaten egg then place in the oven and allow to bake for 15 minutes until golden brown and cooked through.

• Remove from your oven, allow it to rest for 5 minutes then slice and serve.

That's Christmas and That's Food and Drink would like to offer our sincere thanks to Cottage Delight for providing us with this recipe. 

Please check out Cottage Delight here https://www.cottagedelight.co.uk.

Boxing Day Pickle Pie

Prep: 20 minutes Cook : 1 hour Serves: 6-8

Ingredients

2 x sheets of pre-rolled shortcrust pastry

1 x 320g jar Cottage Delight Perfect Party Pickle 

8 slices of leftover Christmas ham

300g cooked Christmas Turkey

300g leftover pork stuffing (or 1 packet mix, made according to the instructions on the packet)

250g mature cheddar, grated

1 egg, whisked

Method

• Preheat your oven to 200ºC/180ºC fan/gas 6

• Grease and flour a deep, round 18cm, loose bottomed or a spring form pie tin. 

• Line the tin with one sheet of shortcrust pastry and spread ½ jar of Perfect Party Pickle across the base.

• Fill with layers of ham, Perfect Party Pickle, turkey, stuffing and cheese, until the tin is full. Ensure you firmly pack in the layers, pressing them into the pie as you go along.

• Cut a lid, using the pie tin as a guide, place this on the top of the pie and crimp around the edges.

• Cut festive decorations out with the pastry off-cuts and arrange these on top of your pie.

• Glaze the top (generously!) with an egg wash and cut a hole in the top.

• Bake in the oven an 1 hour, (check and add tin foil over top if catching after 40 minutes) until golden brown.

• Allow to cool inside the tin and serve hot or cold for your Boxing Day lunch.

That's Christmas and That's Food and Drink would like to offer our sincere thanks to Cottage Delight for providing us with this recipe. 

Please check out Cottage Delight here https://www.cottagedelight.co.uk

Savyll Alcohol-free cocktails

Are you likely to be a designated driver this Christmas? Are you a mum-to-be? Or perhaps you are cutting down on your alcohol intake for health or lifestyle reasons? Well, you're not alone, because latest research shows more and more of us are taking the option of drinking alcohol-free drinks, more often. 

The fabulous Savyll non-alcoholic cocktail collection is the perfect way to make everyone feel they are part of every occasion, especially over the Christmas an New Year season.

Savyll cocktails are very carefully crafted using a unique and carefully chosen blend of 100% natural ingredients to recreate the sophisticated flavours, familiarity and sense of occasion that cocktails bring, with a premium selection of the world’s most popular variations.

Savyll’s collection includes a mouth-watering choice of Bellini, Moscow Mule, Mojito and Paloma Tequila.

The stylish range is also entirely vegan, is gluten free (which will be of special interest to people like my wife, diagnosed with coeliac disease) are also low in calories and available in elegant individual 250ml glass bottles or in slim convenient cans.

“Pronounced “sah-vell” which means to be ‘savoured by all’, Savyll cocktails can be served directly from their elegant signature glass bottles and enjoyed without the need for mixers or any other embellishments,  you just need to chill, serve and sip!

The range is also entirely free of allergens and artificial sweeteners, too.

Savyll was founded by “dinner party mixologist” Avnish Babla.  When he became an expectant father, Avnish wanted a healthier lifestyle for himself and his wife, Diana. 

Moderating alcohol consumption was important to him. But! He quickly discovered there was a dearth of non-alcoholic drinks that weren’t either overly sweetened or artificially flavoured. 

He teamed up with an award-winning beverage developer and Avnish turned his cocktail crafting passion into a mission to reinvent their alcohol-free namesakes, so anyone choosing to moderate their alcohol intake or completely abstain from alcohol can enjoy without compromising on taste.

You'll find them stocked at Ocado, Wholefoods, Amazon, Harrods and direct from savyll.com.

The recommended retail price is from £13.99. 

You'll be able to follow them on Instagram @savyllbeverageco for the latest updates, special promotions and events.

The Whisky Tour of Scotland advent calendar

Advent calendars have long been a mainstay of our lives at Christmas, a tradition stretching back to the end of the 19th century, according to some reports.

This year advent calendars are joined by a truly luxurious advent calendar, The Whisky Tour of Scotland advent calendar!

The Whisky Tour of Scotland advent calendar features 24 very special and very rare aged single cask and blended expressions from the five Scotch whisky regions to offer whiskey enthusiasts the perfect advent calendar. 

Presented in the form of a handmade wooden cabinet, finished in the exact same style as a traditional whisky cabinet, it’s the perfect place to keep and store your whisky miniatures long after Christmas too. 

You should be able to find it for £160 from the following retailers: Harvey Nichols, Fenwick, Master of Malt, Amazon and Costco.

Distilled and bottled in some of the best distilleries in Scotland, the whisky artisans involved are among the best and most skilled in their field. 

These limited release casks offer the very best of aged, old and rare Scotch whiskies and will help the happy and joyous recipient celebrate the Christmas season in considerable style!

Each 50ml dram is bottled straight from the cask and represents an expression of some of the best whiskies Scotland has to offer from leading distilleries.

The advent calendar is sustainable and reusable in homage to the beautiful Scottish wilderness where each whisky is made.

The advent calendar contains:

24 x 50ml Whiskies, 42-50% ABV

18 Single Malts

3 Single Grains

3 Blended Expressions

The whiskies are from some of Scotland’s finest distilleries and will include examples from: Inchgower, Tullibardine, Linkwood, Caol Ila, Auchroisk, Strathmill, Blair Athol and many others besides.

 

 

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Make your Christmas a Sprigster and SWISH Christmas this year

Sorry to remind you, but Christmas is just around the corner and we'd like to remind you Sprigster Drinks and SWISH Cocktails are absolutely perfect gift ideas and substitutes for non-drinkers this Christmas!

Some people aren't drinking alcohol for health reasons or on religious grounds so they need something tasty and refreshing to make their Christmas go with a swing, too.  

Containing only 5 ingredients, inspired by ingredients found in their own 3-acre walled kitchen garden, Sprigster is a non-alcoholic shrub infusion that encapsulates the joys of an English country garden and is a real treat to be enjoyed in the sunshine, or during the Chirstmas period when it will recreate the summer in a drink for you!

Carefully crafted from ingredients that can be found in abundance in a proper classic English garden, with notes of rhubarb, ginger, fennel seeds and gooseberry, the result? A complex, delightfully dry and refreshing drink.

Both Sprigster’s original blend and Sprigster Fizz, can act perfectly as a non-alcoholic alternative to wine, as a spirit substitute within a G&T or aperitif, or even as a deliciously premium soft drink option during the Christmas a New Year season!

The recommended retail price is £15 for Sprigster Fizz(75cl), £25 for the gift box or alternatively a full bottle of Sprigster (70cl) can be bought for just £26.

You can buy direct here Purchase link: www.sprigsterdrinks.com.

If you are keen on cocktails that are prepared and mixed using only the finest ingredients, SWISH offers exquisite, expertly crafted ready-to-drink no and low alcohol cocktails, in a host of unique and very tempting innovative and experimental flavours. 

All SWISH Cocktails are inspired by the artistry of the world's greatest cocktails, offering the best cocktail bar quality serves, but with the added luxury of being delivered direct to your home for your Christmas and New Year parties. 

SWISH’s innovative twists on classical cocktail serves are currently available in two ranges; Light (5% ABV) and Virgin (0.0% ABV), designed to help you enjoy every drop of your cocktails and keep you sipping for longer, so you can keep a clearer head throughout all the Christmas celebrations with SWISH. 

Current mixes include Piña Colada Spritz, Key Lime Pie Mojito Fizz, and Breakfast Fizz. 

SWISH Cocktails are available to purchase at swishcocktails.com.