I feel like cooking...

It’s a wrap for 2025! Another year of milestones for ckbk, including adding the 1,000th cookbook to our ever-growing online collection. Thanks to all the ckbk users, authors and publishers who have helped us along the way. Below we present a list of the books and recipes which have been used most through the year via the ckbk website and app.

To all of you, a gigantic thank you for being with us along the way in 2025, we appreciate every one of you, your wonderful comments, the recipes you try and share with us, your place in our food-loving community. Thank you.

As we finish up the mince pies, and lunch on turkey sandwiches, we turn our thoughts to New Year’s Eve, what to make for the party of the year, and what to raise a glass of.

Christmas pudding is that once a year treat, rich in sweet fruits, seasoned with spice and more than its fair share of brandy, and everyone looks forward to it. Unless, of course, you don’t. It you are one of the naysayers, never fear, we’ve got a recipe for that. Your Christmas table will nonetheless be graced with a pudding to thrill them all, fitting of the annual feast.

Jewish food is as rich and varied as the many communities worldwide who have developed their own traditions, and evolve them today. As we publish Judi Rose’s feature on Hanukkah, we are delighted also to highlight the addition of her latest book to ckbk. In To Life!: Healthy Jewish Food, written together with her cousin Dr Jackie Rose, Judi combines aspects of a nutritious Mediterranean diet with Jewish culinary traditions, taking inspiration from her mother's recipes.

To mark the recent arrival on ckbk of To Life!  by Judi Rose, daughter of legendary Jewish food writer Evelyn Rose MBE, we asked Judi to share some of her favourite family memories, recipes and traditions for this month’s Jewish festival of Hanukkah, the Feast of Lights. Don’t miss her family potato latke recipe!