Conifer Cuisine: Don't Toss Your Christmas Tree Yet! Here's How You Can Cook With It Louise LeGresley / Getty Images If you haven't taken down your Christmas tree yet, no worries. We don't judge. But here's an idea: Have you ever thought about eating it? Like, mmm, that would be good with my salmon. Well, maybe not. Still, Julia Georgallis has some recipes. Over the last five years, she's been orchestrating Christmas dinners in London with a friend. "How can we make something sustainable around Christmas time? What can we eat? What's the thing that no one eats that kind of represents Christmas? And then we just settled on Christmas trees," Georgallis says.