We eat around 2pm, starting with foie gras and sweet Monbazillac wine – a throwback to when we lived in Paris. Then, we move to the Sri Lankan part: biryani, chocolate biscuit pudding, before Sri Lank

D inah was not a Christmas cook. Her ...

We’ve eaten and sipped our way through this year’s supermarket Christmas food and here are our favourites

Our columnist fondly recalls her childhood Christmases – apart from the time the milk ran out!

MONDAY 8 DECEMBER

You’ve pulled off the perfect dinner; now it’s time to settle down on the sofa and enjoy a bit of telly with some perked-up leftovers