Alison Burroughes asks for solo Christmas dinner ideas (Letters, 21 December). Can I suggest you just make your favourite dish? My partner and I spent years dropping out of arguments divvying up kids and other relatives for Christmas Day. Taking a complicated cooking routine out of the situation just makes it all the better. We always had “Christmas dinner” on an arbitrary day when everyone we wanted there had paid all dues elsewhere. Usually it was before new year; this year it might be as late as June. Happy Christmas to everyone, however different it may be.
John Richardson
South Cave, East Riding of Yorkshire
• As a dedicated Christmas singleton (it is bliss after all those years of having to do it for other people), my advice would be: don’t spend hours in the kitchen making an elaborate dinner, but take your time to enjoy a cooked breakfast and have tea, with as much cake as you like, when you start to feel peckish again.
Rita Gallard
Norwich
• I’m having garlic prawns, and a baguette to mop up the juices, followed by warmed cherries, with a slice of rich chocolate cake and whipped cream. Yummy!
Sybil Scott
St Andrews, Fife
