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The Kitchen Café: 14/12/2011

14/12/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kitchen Café, 14/12/2011

Ideas for a vegetarian Christmas, home-made edible presents and a festive cheeseboard.

Ideas for a vegetarian Christmas, inspiration for home-made edible presents, uses for cinnamon, the ultimate Yuletide cheeseboard, and how to make a simple festive hot toddie.

Pennie Latin and the team delve into the options for a meat-free Christmas. If you're a vegetarian or have vegetarians coming round for Christmas dinner, tune in for some cracking ideas from John Quigley and Wendy Barrie.

If you fancy trying your hand at some home-made, edible Christmas presents then let the Kitchen Cafe team inspire you with ideas for chutney, fudge, pears in syrup, truffles or maybe some mulled gin! 

Dan Holland joins Phoebe Weller, The Roving Fromagiere, for an inspirational visit to George Mewes Cheese in Glasgow with a view to creating the ultimate yuletide cheeseboard. Rather than being an after-thought, Phoebe advises us to be inspired with the cheeses we choose and to to pay more attention to cheese at Christmas time! 

Top chef Tony Singh makes a Festive Hot Toddie. The recipe will be available to download and print off.

We return to The Kitchen Café Spice Cupboard with spice expert Ghillie Basan. This month she talks about one of the most festive spices - cinnamon.

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