1 The Christmas Day feast is just a big roast dinner. Turn this sentence into your internal monologue. Put it on loop.
2 REPEAT AFTER ME: buying ready-made is not an admission of failure. If you’re at that frazzled point of no return where shop-bought custard, cranberry sauce, mince pies and so on will mean the difference between merriment and meltdown, go for it.
3 I see you – yes you! – flicking through that cookbook, flirting with 10 different twists on your festive feast. Vow to try no more than one or two and remember Christmas is all about the roasties… Guests won’t give your fermented heritage mushrooms a second glance.