• Recipe collection
• Christmas

From porchetta to pavlova: Catch up on every new Christmas recipe for 2025

We’ve been rolling out our contributors’ festive recipes, from Emelia Jackson’s cheese straws to Adam Liaw’s Italian-style pork roast with perfect crackling.

• Shellfish

Baked scallops with garlic-parsley butter and ’nduja

Baked in an oven or grilled on a hot barbecue, this is the perfect party starter.

• < 30 mins
• Julia Busuttil Nishimura

• Taste test

We put 13 supermarket smoked salmons to the taste test, and the cheapest was the best

Which ones are destined for the platter, and which did we spit into the bin?

• Dani Valent

• Potato

Gunpowder tater tots

Spark up the party by adding this feisty Indian spice mix to a packet of potato gems.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Katrina Meynink

• Potato

Bang bang tater tots

Carby, sweet and savoury, these fancified potato gems are what snack dreams are made of.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Katrina Meynink

• Fish

Tuna Pringles

Crisp potato chips with a zippy tuna tartare is the perfect snacks-with-drinks pairing.

• < 30 mins
• Katrina Meynink

• Quick & easy

Dirty martini dip and mortadella olives

These salty, meaty, creamy bombs of pure deliciousness will disappear instantly.

• < 30 mins
• Katrina Meynink

• Finger food

This dirty martini dip with mortadella-stuffed olives is your new go-to Christmas snack

The holy trinity of flavour combines in these high-impact appetisers built around brilliant shortcuts, no cooking required.

• Katrina Meynink

• Ask Alice

Been asked to ‘bring a plate’? How to be the most popular guest – with zero stress

Alice Zaslavsky shares her shortcuts and tips for every personality of plate-bringer this party season.

• Alice Zaslavsky

• Drink trends

From tacky to trendy: The Appletini cocktail is back to shake things up this summer

It’s bobbing up on drinks lists everywhere from pubs to hatted fine diners – but not quite as you may remember it. Plus, how to make your own at home.

• Fred Siggins