Gift ideas - we all need lots of them at this time, so the team are providing some of their favourite edible presents and recipes. Hopefully these honey spiced nuts, fresh strawberry jam, buckwheat granola, Christmas cracker butter, minted passionfruit potion and prunes in gin will help tick the boxes on your Christmas list.
Peter Gordon has many more delicious ideas here. And don't feel you have to make everything yourself - This week's Bite cover features impeccably-dressed gingerbread men and ladies and the most delicious little mince pies, all bought from Farro Fresh, that we have presented on a range of festive plates from Freedom Furniture. Wrap the plates in cellophane and add a Christmas bauble or two, and people are going to think you have gone to an awful lot of trouble just for them!
Warren is sharing an Elwin family favourite - his stuffing rolls were born of roasting the turkey unstuffed (it cooks more evenly) and they have become a mighty Christmas tradition that no one can keep their hands off. The other three parts of his mince quartet are new to me, but look set to become family favourites as the holidays roll on after Christmas Day - and we're rather proud that his Christmas spice mix has been turned in to the sausage of the season by The Grey Lynn Butchers. Head up that way and tell 'em we sent you!
