{"id":19829,"date":"2013-11-26T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T13:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=19829"},"modified":"2013-11-26T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T13:24:04","slug":"cardiffs-alternative-christmas-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/11\/26\/cardiffs-alternative-christmas-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff\u2019s alternative Christmas dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The best food you\u2019ve never cooked\u2019 is the slogan of the newly revived CookShop in Pontcanna. This time around it\u2019s applying its famous ethos to Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19830\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 186px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/Julia-Halinan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-19830  \" alt=\"Julia Hallinan\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/Julia-Halinan-233x312.jpg\" width=\"186\" height=\"250\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19830  \" alt=\"Julia Hallinan\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/Julia-Halinan-233x312.jpg\" width=\"186\" height=\"250\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Chef and founder, Julia Hallinan (photo courtesy of The CookShop)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"The CookShop's website \" href=\"http:\/\/cookshopcardiff.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The CookShop<\/a> opened in 1982 and sold frozen meals to Cardiff. Gone for 18 years it\u2019s now back with gorgeous gourmet ready meals and a December twist.<\/p>\n<p>Founder and Chef, Julia Hallinan said, \u201cThe chilled food idea is to eat what you would cook at home but with the convenience of not having to actually cook it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year the shop is offering <em>Christmas lunch<\/em> and <em>Christmas trimmings<\/em> in a bag, filled with brandy butter, pigs in blankets and turkey joints.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hallinan said, \u201cWe are popular amongst our old locals and hopeful that we will have a reasonable amount of Christmas orders!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 371px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/CookShop201113-0186-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-19832  \" alt=\"The gourmet Christmas puddings you can expect in the Christmas dinner bags (photo provided by The CookShop)  \" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/CookShop201113-0186-1-464x312.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"250\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19832  \" alt=\"The gourmet Christmas puddings you can expect in the Christmas dinner bags (photo provided by The CookShop)  \" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/11\/CookShop201113-0186-1-464x312.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"250\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> The gourmet Christmas puddings you can expect in the Christmas dinner bags (photo courtesy of The CookShop)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CookShop\u2019s got it in the bag this festive season <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":19832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3430,22,3431,761],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-19829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-cookshop","tag-food-2","tag-gourmet","tag-pontcanna"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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