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DORSET
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for Christmas menus and party ideas.
Now
featuring the
New Forest
too!
e’re not sure how the goose is looking on the
scales but Christmas is coming which means
it’s time to start preparing for a feast.
While we are never organised enough to start our
pudding halfway through the year, we are pencilling
in dates to go out for a yuletide meal and leave all the
#SantaChoseUs
this Christmas
hard work to a professional. If you long for a Christmas
dinner where the turkey is perfectly moist and the
roast potatoes have a crunch you can’t quite match at
home, head to page 23 for some ideas of where to go
and don that paper hat in public with pride.
Before the Christmas feasting starts, try some
seafood. It’s in season right now and Dorset is blessed
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with some of the best bivalves you will ever get to
steam open. See p8 for a recipe that introduces
mussels to Caribbean flavours and check out the crab
ramekin on page 52 for one of the nicest looking plates
of food we’ve ever featured.
Elsewhere there’s honey cocktails (p64), hogs in
boxes (p20), New Year’s Eve celebrations (p60),
kitchen gadgets (p66), Christmas wine picks (p63)
and a Menu of the Month (p58). It all adds up to
another delicious slice of Dorset, now
with a side order of New Forest too.
Robin Alway
Editorial Director
Enjoy your Menu!
Contributors
Nick Marshall
Come and party at our venues in Bournemouth
& Poole this year. The Christmas party fairy
is waiting to grant your wishes.
Nick has been
pulling crackers and
sipping gravy for
our Festive Feasts
feature. Expect him
to start Easter when
the first Creme Eggs
are sighted – in January.
Two Thirsty Gardeners Tom East
Honey gets the
Thirsty Gardeners
treatment. Which
means introducing
it to all manner
of delicious booze,
including a winter
cocktail. It’s what bees are for.
Tom flexs some
mussels for us
with our Vital
Ingredient
this issue and
introduces the
humble mollusc
to the Scotch bonnet chilli.
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Alison Smith
Alison’s always
looking for her
next Dorset foodie
fix. If it’s local,
seasonal and
delicious, she’s
contractually
bound to tell us all about it.