Christmas Day shopping list

Ensure your family feast goes smoothly with our handy ingredients list. Remember to cross off what you already have so you don’t double up.

100g vac-pac chestnuts

Spoonful fennel seeds

Good glug of olive oil

20g dried porcini mushrooms

300ml Marsala wine

A couple of spoonfuls of plain flour

100ml ruby port

1 stock cube

Glug of white wine vinegar

A couple of tbsp of caster sugar

A couple of tsp of Dijon mustard

1 packet of crisp granary toasts

1 bulb of garlic

200g chestnut mushrooms

4 Portobello mushrooms

2 onions

3 red onions

Bunch of rosemary

Bunch of sage

Bunch of dill

Bunch of parsley

Bunch of chives

Sprig of thyme

½ cucumber

4 lemons

150g Brie

50g butter

1 egg

500g puff pastry

200ml half-fat crème fraîche

4 tbsp crème fraîche

1 pack sliced pancetta

400g sausage meat

5kg Kelly Bronze turkey

550g Smoked salmon

250g flaked smoked salmon

24 large peeled raw prawns

See your December 2013 issue of Candis for the full feature with all the recipes