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How to beat food waste, one jar of jam at a time • Have you downloaded the Olio app to your phone? It’s like a Freecycle for surplus food, and it hit two million users this year. With food waste a huge issue and Christmas fast approaching, there’s never been a better time to share what you don’t want (or need) online

The comfort of SIMPLE PLEASURES • As autumn prepares to give way to winter, Debora Robertson reflects on a strange year and how, in these socially restricted times, we might best see it to its conclusion. The secret, she reckons, is to hold on to the little everyday rituals that make life better

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The crowdpleasers MAKE & SHARE • “Earlier this year, relationships with neighbours blossomed because almost all of us had a sense of needing to help in some way – I know I did. Even though we can’t gather in big, buzzy groups at Christmas, these mincemeat recipes are a special way to keep in touch or say thank you.”

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STAR ATTRACTIONS Mains and sides you’ll cook again & again • These recipes have been tested and perfected to bring festive cheer any day of the year, however many you have sitting down to eat. Where the dishes serve more than you need, we’ve given plenty of ideas for leftovers, too, so lunch or dinner is sorted for another day – win, win

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One-pot magic • Sometimes the simplest recipes are the best – as with this ever-reliable Christmas red cabbage from cookery legend Delia. Put it at the top of your festive recipe list and you’ll fall under its spell – this one’s a keeper

The new BRUNCH CLASSIC

How to give dinner Nigella appeal • Nigella has a loyal abundance of fans, with good reason: she demystifies cooking and is skilled at writing recipes that work. Her latest book, Cook, Eat, Repeat – like its long-ago predecessor, the iconic How To Eat – is as much about descriptive, empowering writing as it is about the recipes themselves. Here is a snapshot of Nigella’s thoughts on recipe-writing and six dishes extracted from her new book – good-as-a-hug platefuls of food for cold November nights and the run-up to Christmas. These are recipes to cherish, to enjoy and to cook again and again

THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING It ’s all about the melting middle • By the time you’ve cut into this marvellous creation to reveal its oozing salted caramel ganache, ladled hot rum custard over it and sat down to enjoy with a tot of something good, you’ll be able to convince yourself the last nine months have all been a bad dream. The recipe makes two puddings, so give the other one to some lucky person who deserves a treat and a thank you

INTRODUCING… The chocolate orange Christmas cake • The traditional Christmas cake is beautiful to look at with its fancy white icing. When it comes to the classic brown stuff inside, though, perhaps you’re not quite so wowed. But what if that brown stuff were chocolate? Or, for a Christmassy touch, chocolate orange? Time to update tradition with this understated crowdpleaser, which you can make ahead and squirrel away – it will only become more yummy

A lighter take on the traditional cake • Classic Christmas cake gets a makeover in these two recipes from British cookery...