Nigella's Ideas

Mini Christmas Puds
Crumble 100g Christmas pudding into bowl, add syrup and sherry (or 200g double cream).  Then add 100g melted chocolate, mix and form the mixture into small balls.  Top with some melted white chocolate, with red and green cherry pieces.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/search?programmes[]=b00g9kvg
also: http://mrsipskitchen.blogspot.com/2010/11/mini-christmas-puddings.html
and what to do with left over Christmas pudding: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search.do?keywords=christmas+pudding&filterItem=&filterItem=&filterItem=&filterItem=&filterItem=&filterItem=&filterItem=&filterItem=&filterItem=&filterItem=

Nigella's version:

• 125g best-quality dark chocolate, finely chopped
• 350g leftover, or freshly cooked and cooled, Christmas pudding
• 60ml sherry
• 2 x 15ml tablespoons golden syrup

Jenny's version:

200g leftover Christmas pudding

125g dark chocolate

50g double cream

25g brandy butter

 

Other ideas:

Chilli Jelly: recipe to follow

Fruit Salad:
Mango, pomegranate seeds, blueberries and lime juice.

Cake to serve with Fruit Salad above:
8 oz butter
350g flour 
300g sugar
6 eggs
vanilla
1/2 tsp bicard
1/2 tub natural yoghurt
Whiz in processor, cook about an hour.

Cheesy Supper:
Slices of bread in a layer in a dish, perhaps French stick.
In processor whiz: mozarella, parmesan, cheddar cheese, sour cream eggs and spring onion. 
Pour over bread in dish, leave overnight and cook about half an hour.

Chutney
Put cooking apples, beetroot, red onion, fresh and crystalised ginger, sugar, allspice, salt, red wine vinegar into a pan, heat up to a rolling boil. Cook about an hour, stirring occasionally.  Pour into steralised jam jars

Potato skins:
Bake potatoes, scoop out potato. (Put into soup? everything goes into the soup!)
Mix together chopper spring onion, strong cheese, sour cream, worcestershire sauce, pepper.
Put mixture into the skins. Cook.
If liked, crumble cooked bacon on top when removed from the oven.

See also: http://uktv.co.uk/food/stepbystep/aid/596994

I met Nigella's father once, in a lift with his aides.  This was when he was an MP and Minister under Margaret Thatcher, in the days before he became so slim.  He was quite a gentleman and offered that I could leave the lift first.  This was completely the opposite of how the media portrayed him as stuck up and greedy.