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It's a festive Drivetime as Dr Mosh presents a special Christ-Mosh. Plus The Collective gather to debate listeners' darkest secrets and worst misdemeanours. Plus there's sport with Matt, Rebecca analyses the business news and there's regular travel updates from Sally Traffic.

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Wed 18 Dec 2013 17:05
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  • AC/DC

    Whole Lotta Rosie

    • AC/DC - Let There Be Rock.
    • Atco.

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Underneath The Tree

  • Fatboy Slim

    Praise You

    • Now 1999 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Genesis

    Follow You Follow Me

    • And Then There Were Three.
    • Charisma.

  • The Greedies

    A Merry Jingle

    • Punk Rock Xmas.
    • Mercury.
    • 5.

  • Iron Maiden

    Run To The Hills

    • Run To The Hills.
    • London.
    • 1.

  • Greg Lake

    I Believe In Father Christmas

    • The Anthology, A Musical Journey.
    • BMG.

  • Leona Lewis

    One More Sleep

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Lee Marvin

    Wand'rin' Star

    • (Single).
    • Paramount.
    • 9.

  • Chris Rea

    Driving Home For Christmas

    • (Single).
    • WEA.
    • 1.

  • Eddi Reader

    Wild Mountainside

  • The Ronettes

    Sleigh Ride

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spect.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Slade

    Lock Up Your Daughters

    • The Very Best Of Slade.
    • Universal.
    • 4.

  • Supertramp

    Take The Long Way Home

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Robbie Williams

    Dream A Little Dream (feat. Lily Allen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

Gingerbread Stuffing

Gingerbread Stuffing

Sometimes, it makes sense to use one鈥檚 obsessions to advantage. I know that most people don鈥檛 have trivial light-bulb moments when the notion pops into an already food-filled head to make a stuffing in which crumbled gingerbread cake replaces breadcrumbs, but that鈥檚, unfathomably, how my mind works.

You can use dark brown, dense gingerbread, or the lighter, sandier loaves. I buy spiced bread rather than make it & you will often find it sold, even still in loaf-shape, as ginger cake. It all works. Indeed any sweet, spiced bread, such as pannetone, would.

Serves 8-10

Prep time 听25 mins

Cooking time 听60 mins

Ingredients

500g听onions听(3 medium onions)

2听eating apples听(approx. 325g / 11oz, peeled & cored)

45g butter

1听x 15ml tbsp听vegetable oil

750g听streaky bacon

zest of听2听clementines/satsumers

450g good shop-bought听gingerbread loaves听(such as Mcvitie's Jamaica) loosely crumbled

2听濒补谤驳别听别驳驳蝉听(产别补迟别苍)

approx听1沤2听tsp听freshly ground听pepper

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Method

Using a food processor or by hand, finely chop the onions & apples. Put the butter & oil in a large, wide saucepan over a medium heat & fry the chopped onions & apples until soft, about 10鈥�15 minutes. Finely chop the听streaky bacon听in the processor, or by hand, & add this to the softened onion & apple mixture. Cook everything, stirring frequently, for about 5 mins more. Add the zest of the clementines/satsumas. Take the pan off the heat & let it cool a little before mixing in the gingerbreadcrumbs. You can let this get properly cold now if you want. Just before you want to cook the stuffing, add the beaten eggs & pepper, & use it to stuff the cavity of your turkey, or cook all of it (or what鈥檚 left after stuffing your bird) in a buttered baking dish. I don鈥檛 stuff the bird but put all of my stuffing in a very generously buttered old Le Creuset terrine, with internal dimensions of approx. 25cm x 9cm x 7cm deep / 10 x 31沤2 x 3 inches deep. Bake it in a hot oven (200掳C/gas mark 6) with your turkey for about the last 45 mins. If the stuffing鈥檚 going into a full oven 鈥� which it no doubt is 鈥� there should be no need to cover the dish. If the oven is less full, & therefore hotter & less steamy, you could cover with foil for the first 30 minutes. Let the cooked stuffing sit in its terrine for a good 10 mins out of the oven before turning it out & slicing it. Or just spoon from the dish if that鈥檚 less stressful. (I love a slice of this, cold, in a Christmas night or Boxing Day turkey sandwich.)

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Nigel鈥檚 Top Tips

听听听听听 Make the stuffing, leave to cool completely then beat in the eggs & pepper. Cover & keep in the fridge for up to 2 days.

听听听 Make the stuffing, with the eggs & pepper, & freeze for up to 2 weeks. Thaw overnight in the fridge.

Broadcast

  • Wed 18 Dec 2013 17:05
    大象传媒 Radio 2