Welcome to Kitchen Queries, where the nigella.com team will answer your cooking or food related questions.  We’d love you to submit some of your recipe problems, dilemmas or queries for us to get our teeth into!

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• Christmas Eve Dinner for 10 - recommendations?

  What would be a good easy dinner that feeds 10 people without a tomato-based sauce? I have family coming in for Christmas and we have always done appetizers for dinner but I don't have time to make appetizers to feed 10 people. Please help!

  Posted by bizzeyb. Answered on 4th Dec 2010 at 12.00

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• Nonconformist Xmas pudding - FEAST

  I have just finished making the recipe for the non-conformist christmas pudding from Feast. I decided to make 2 smaller puddings from the recipe, one for this christmas and one for next year. i have stored the one for this year in baking parchment and foil and keeping it in the fridge. I was wondering which is the best way to keep the one for next year? Can I freeze it? Not sure I can store it in the cubboard for that long as it only has a relatively small amount of alchohol in it. Any advice would be great. Thanks Sarah

  I've just made this delicious-sounding concoction. Should I be storing it somewhere cool, freezing it, or refrigerating it, till Christmas?

  Posted by SarahShuttleworth. Answered on 3rd Dec 2010 at 12.00

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• Sherry in Christmas Pudding

  Dear Nigella Team, I would love to make Nigella's Ultimate Christmas Pudding from her Christmas book. Unfortunately, I can't get hold of any Pedro Jimenez Sherry (I live in a semi rural area of France where I can't find it). Can I use any other sherry or anything else to replace it? I really don't want the flavour compromised. Many thanks ! Carolina

  Posted by carohill. Answered on 2nd Dec 2010 at 12.00

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