Fir Real: Eat your Christmas Tree – Bangers & Balls

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Taking down the Christmas Tree can fill you with sadness as the twinkly lights are put away for another year. Yet it doesn’t have to be like this. Your Christmas Tree can keep giving to you all year round.

This year on the 6th of January the traditional day for taking down your Christmas Tree. Gather round it and harvest some of its pines! You can create so many recipes from pesto to dressing for a Salmon, to vinegars to pickles. Nothing like getting creative in January. You can try our Christmas Tree Salt Rub and Christmas Tree Pesto to get your started.

6 million trees approx are sold in the UK every single year and so few of us eat them. We think it is a crying shame. So we are making a stand! We are going to be making a lip lickingly good curing rub in our membership the – Kitchen Table Revolution this week.

We are all very excited! Not in there yet? Don’t worry we are sharing our Christmas Tree Salt Rub and Christmas Tree Pesto with your recipe with you. Though if you want to learn how to cure meat or mushrooms with your Christmas Tree or make a Blood Orange Negroni Marmalade or a Lemon and Thyme Chutney you may want to hot foot it over there and become a member today. Duncan and our experts will be teaching you how to make these life and more importantly holding you accountable so you actaully do it!

Now I hear you ask – what made me think about eating my Christmas Tree? Well there are so many trees you can eat from Silver Birch Tree leaves – have a look at these crisps Duncan and I made – so good to using the pine from a Douglous Fir to create a Green Fashioned. The Fir really complements the smokiness of the whisky! So I thought surely you must be able to eat your Christmas Tree!  

If you have Fir, Pine and Spruce you are in luck. We have a locally grown Christmas Nordmann! They have a lovely zesty flavour to it and work so well in things like pickles. You can use your pine like a herb to add to salt or to a rub or even to honey to infuse! As always there a dubious dobblegangers out there so make sure you make sure you check what tree you have before you use it as a cedar or cypress are poisonous!