Love+festive foodie favourites in pictures

Home-baked beer loaf

Festive home-baked Peanut Butter Cookies

Poppies are coming up

Incredibly good champagne

Lovely roasted lamb and potatoes

This is a short highlights reel. Tip for the cookies: if you are using salted peanut butter do not add any additional salt, alternatively use unsalted peanut butter.

Do try the bread if you've half an hour, a beer and some self-raising flour spare. The recipe is simple as anything and it takes only about 30 minutes to cook. Here is a basic recipe:


- 500g of self-raising flour
- a pinch of salt
- 340ml of any good beer (light beers like Peroni or Amstel will do well)
- some chopped or crushed garlic (about a teaspoonful)
- an onion, chopped and fried in a pan
- your choice of herbs

Pre-heat the oven to 180. Mix all the ingredients together into a dough. Stick it in a bread tin and bake for 20-30 minutes. Voila.

Cook food, you won't regret it.