Do you consider there’s nothing higher at Christmas than grabbing a glass of festive fizz and settling down to observe as another person prepares a winter feast? In that case, that is the information for you.
There are a few traditional repeats you could need to catch on 17 December, then the contemporary festive cooking kicks off on 19 December and continues into the brand new 12 months.
Nigella
Nigella followers shall be distraught to listen to that there is no such thing as a new Nigella Christmas particular this 12 months. Nevertheless, those that can’t deal with a Christmas minus Nigella (ie all of us) can stream a repeat of her Prepare dinner, Eat, Repeat Christmas Particular on iPlayer.
You too can get festive recipe inspiration through the Season’s Eatings (heh) posts on her web site: www.nigella.com
However now, let’s tuck in a serviette and begin learning the menu.
Saturday, 17 December
Mary Berry’s Festive Feasts (11.30am, BBC One) (Repeat)
This can be a repeat nevertheless it’s a great way to start out kicking off what we may name the feastive (so sorry) celebrations.
It’s adopted by…
Rick Stein’s Cornish Christmas (12.30pm, BBC One) (Repeat)
This once more is a repeat nevertheless it’s a great way to take pleasure in an hour and a half of Christmas cooking telly whereas pondering your weekend plans / nursing your workplace Christmas get together hangover.
Monday, 19 December
Mary Berry’s Final Christmas (8pm, BBC One)
BBC
Recent content material begins right here. Mary Berry is again and preserving it actual this 12 months with a present devoted to her greatest recipes: the normal Christmas dishes she’s been perfecting for 50 years. This features a lemon and herb roast turkey with crispy roasties, purple cabbage and apricot and chestnut stuffing.
She’ll go on some mini adventures with chef Angela Hartnett, Monica Galetti and TV host Rylan, and make a Christmas centrepiece from foraged greenery. That’s excellent news for my Christmas desk and unhealthy information for my neighbours’ hedges.
Friday, 23 December
Movie star MasterChef Christmas Prepare dinner-Off 2022 (Half 1) (BBC One, 8pm)
BBC
Within the first of two elements, a bunch of celebs together with Bez from Glad Mondays, athlete Iwan Thomas, singer Lesley Garrett and pop star Josh Cuthbert flex their cookery abilities to compete for the coveted Movie star MasterChef Golden Whisk trophy. Sounds chaotic. I’m in.
Gino’s Italian Christmas Feast (8.30pm, ITV)
ITV
Gino D’Acampo, associates of Gino, household of Gino, canine of Gino and diverse manufacturing crew members shall be having fun with an Italian Christmas on the D’Acampo household’s Sardinian villa. On the menu is gnocchi, Florentine biscuits and a bread and butter pudding with a twist.
Warning: Christmas jumpers shall be worn.
Christmas Eve
The Nice Christmas Bake Off (8.25pm, Channel 4)
BBC
Is there something extra Christmassy than a bunch of celebrities in a tent, getting all floury and anxious? The reply, fairly clearly, is not any. This 12 months’s Christmas Bake Off is a Channel 4-themed all-stars episode in honour of the channel’s 40th birthday. Sir Tony Robinson, Gaby Roslin, Miquita Oliver, Terry Christian and Claire Sweeney shall be slinging truffles.
Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding shall be readily available to dish out recommendation and tissues. As Lucas has introduced he’s leaving the present, this shall be considered one of your final probabilities to observe him work the long-lasting tent. (Crying emoji.)
Friday, 30 December
Movie star MasterChef Christmas Prepare dinner-Off 2022 (Half 2) (BBC One, 9pm)
BBC
The second a part of Movie star MasterChef arrives lengthy after you’ve completed the turkey sandwiches (hopefully) however earlier than the brand new 12 months’s resolutions kick in. This time round, drag artist Kitty Scott-Claus, X-Issue winner Megan McKenna, dancer AJ Pritchard and actor Chizzy Akudolu don the apron and wield the wood spoon within the last a part of this festive cooking competitors.
New 12 months’s Day (Sunday, 1 January)
The Nice New 12 months Bake Off (7.40pm, Channel 4)
BBC
Kick off the brand new 12 months with this Bake Off particular. Lottie Bedlow, Chigs Parmar, Manon Legrève and Antony Amourdoux return for extra of the in-tents competitors.
For extra unmissable vacation TV, learn our guides to the
greatest Channel 4 Christmas TV, the
better of ITV’s Christmas TV and
greatest Christmas TV total. We even have an article on the
greatest Christmas films on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and NowTV.