Ten top tips
1. Add a spoonful of jam or a splash of booze to your turkey roasting tray before you start your gravy, making sure to scrape up all the sticky goodness from the bottom for beautiful bonus flavour.
2. If you’re not a confident turkey carver, slice up your bird in the kitchen and present it on a platter instead of doing it at the table with an audience.
3. Jazz up shop-bought cranberry sauce with apple, cinnamon and a bay leaf. Heat everything together in a pan with a dash of water until the apple is soft. Delicious!
4. Make your own napkin rings by attaching chillies, rosemary, flowers and thistles to ribbon then tying them around your napkins.
5. Homemade chocolate truffles make a great stocking filler or afterdinner treat. Find recipes for dairyfree truffles, and ones with a tasty little kick of chilli on jamieoliver.com.
6. Serve delicious little mouthfuls racked up on forks as individual party nibbles. Try fig, mozzarella and Parma ham; or smoked salmon with horseradish and beetroot.
7. For the best chance of cooking up a great Christmas dinner, pack away all your kitchen clutter – more space makes for a happy kitchen.
8. Stud a few oranges in your fruit bowl with cloves – they will give off a lovely spiced Christmassy scent.
9. Turn old Christmas decorations into personalised place settings.
10. For sweet and thrifty gifts, fill Kilner jars with your own hot chocolate or cookie mixes. Just label, attach instructions and wrap up to give to friends and family.