as you all know by now i love christmas, so i thought for those that share-or dont share my love of the white stuff,and generally being nice for one day of the year,i thought it would be fun to put stuff in here like xmas messages, fav xmas song videos,or anything related to christmas xx love fizz xx
couldnt leave this one out
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so now you get the idea, have fun xx
More Christmas threads........... in November, jesus christ! ;D
i also seem to remember you saying you would never take part-nice caption btw ;D and for the record i love christmas so deal with it scrooge ;)
anyway i put the cats on for you-target practice :P
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sweet, glad u approve of my topic neato thanx hunni xx
xmas song for the day enjoy xx
Still too early!
Quote from: GamerMan316 on November 26, 2010, 11:21:39 AM
Still too early!
nope-4 weeks left, going to be doing my gift,cards, wrapping paper shopping in manchester with my friends next week,needs doing, never too early
reparation time : 20 minutes
Cooking time : 10 minutes
Total time : 30 minutes
Makes: 25 gingerbread people
Ingredients
125g unsalted butter
100g dark muscovado sugar
4 tbsp golden syrup
325g plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp ground ginger
Supercook Writing Icing (optional)
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 170°C, gas mark 3. Line baking trays with baking parchment. Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a medium saucepan, stirring occasionally, then remove from the heat.
2. Sieve the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger into a bowl and stir the melted ingredients into the dry ingredients to make a stiff dough.
3. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and roll to a thickness of about 5mm. Dip biscuit cutters into flour before cutting the dough, or cut around templates, which you can find at waitrose.com/christmas. Place the shapes onto the lined baking trays and bake, in batches, for 9-10 minutes until light golden brown.
4. Remove from the oven. While still warm, and using a skewer or chopstick, make any holes that you will need to hang up the biscuits with ribbon or to make a yuletide garland. If you are decorating your Christmas cake with gingerbread people, make the holes in their arms so that ribbon can be threaded through at a later stage.
5. When completely cool, decorate with the icing. The gingerbread biscuits can be stored in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
enjoy xxx
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Quote from: fizz on November 26, 2010, 11:27:29 AM
Quote from: GamerMan316 on November 26, 2010, 11:21:39 AM
Still too early!
nope-4 weeks left, going to be doing my gift,cards, wrapping paper shopping in manchester with my friends next week,needs doing, never too early
ooohh not forgetting full cooked breakfast at wetherspoons first scrummy mmmmmmm.......
wow i would post up a gingerbread house i made a few days ago..
but its not really ready ._. and i kinda ate some of it..
Quote from: citatscEellE on November 27, 2010, 09:51:16 PM
wow i would post up a gingerbread house i made a few days ago..
but its not really ready ._. and i kinda ate some of it..
I dreamn't i was eating a giant marshmallow once.... when i woke up my pillow was gone, true story ;D
And the reason that this is relevant to the christmas thread is..... well it isn't it was just bothering me and i needed to share thanks for listening
new christmas song for you x
christmas recipe for the week xx
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Christmas mini-muffins
Christmas mini-muffins
Make 24 mini muffins in cute individual cases – perfect for Christmas canapés or as a daily advent calendar-style treat.
Ingredients
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200g/7oz self-raising flour, sifted
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100g/3½oz golden caster sugar
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100ml/3½fl oz sunflower oil
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75ml/2½fl oz milk
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1 large free-range egg
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50g/1¾oz qood quality dark chocolate, chopped
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1 heaped tbsp high quality mincemeat
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50g/1 ¾oz good quality white chocolate, chopped
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50g/1¾oz dried (or fresh) cranberries
Preparation method
1.
Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5 and put 24 mini-muffin cases inside a mini-muffin tin.
2.
Mix the flour and sugar in a bowl, then make a well in the centre. Whisk together the oil, milk and egg and slowly pour into the bowl, stirring gently. Divide this mixture between two bowls. In one bowl add the dark chocolate and mincemeat. Add the white chocolate and cranberries to the other bowl. Stir very gently.
3.
Divide the two mixtures among the 24 muffin cases and bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown and risen.
4.
Remove the muffins to a wire rack and eat warm.
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We are so lucky to have our own nigella ;D
hmmm yes, im very good with my hands x
new one for you love fizz xx
jamie's mulled wine
drinks
This is dead easy to make and tastes like Christmas in a glass. It's a lovely celebration of those traditional festive spices like cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. If you've got your own favourite spices, then feel free to add those to the pot too. Let everything cook away and warm up gently so the flavours have time to mingle with the wine. I like to leave my mulled wine ticking over on a really low heat and just ladle some into glasses as and when guests pop in.
Peel large sections of peel from your clementines, lemon and lime using a speed peeler. Put the sugar in a large saucepan over a medium heat, add the pieces of peel and squeeze in the clementine juice. Add the cloves, cinnamon stick, bay leaves and about 10 to 12 gratings of nutmeg. Throw in your halved vanilla pod and stir in just enough red wine to cover the sugar. Let this simmer until the sugar has completely dissolved into the red wine and then bring to the boil. Keep on a rolling boil for about 4 to 5 minutes, or until you've got a beautiful thick syrup. The reason I'm doing this first is to create a wonderful flavour base by really getting the sugar and spices to infuse and blend well with the wine. It's important to do make a syrup base first because it needs to be quite hot, and if you do this with both bottles of wine in there you'll burn off the alcohol.
When your syrup is ready turn the heat down to low and add your star anise and both bottles of wine. Gently heat the wine and after around 5 minutes, when it's warm and delicious, ladle it into glasses and serve.
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ingredients
• 2 clementines
• peel of 1 lemon
• peel of 1 lime
• 250g caster sugar
• 6 whole cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 3 fresh bay leaves
• 1 whole nutmeg
• 1 whole vanilla pod, halved
• 2 star anise
• 2 bottles of Chianti, or other Italian red wine
as its now the first of december, thought it only right we should start of with the history of advent calenders, check back here every day for a new pic xx
History of the Advent Calendar
* The origin of the Advent Calendar can be traced back to the 19th. Century. The first styles came from the protestant area. So religious families made a chalk line for every day in December until Christmas Eve.
The first known Advent Calendar which was made by handwork is from the year 1851.
Other early styles were the Adventclock or the Adventcandle - a candle for each of the 24 days until Christmas, like todays Advent wreath. So in religious families little pictures were hang up on the wall - one for each day in December. An other tradition was to paint chalk strokes on the door, one per day until Christmas Eve.
In 1902 a Christian Bookshop in Hamburg published a Christmas Clock which was very similar to that published 1922 by the St. Johannis printing company. (Dominik Wunderlin, lic.phil. Swizzerland). The Austrian (NÖ) Landesmuseum is giving the year 1903 as the year of the first printed Advent Calendar. In 1904 an Advent Calendar was inserted in the newspaper "Neues Tagblatt Stuttgart" as a gift for their readers.
In contrast to the above Esther Gajek says that the first printed speciem was made in 1908 by a Swabian parishioner, Gerhard Lang (born 1881 in Maulbronn, Germany -died in 1974).
When he was a child his mother made him an Advent Calendar with 24 "Wibbele" (little candies) which were sticked on a cardboard.
* Later Lang was a participator of the printing office Reichhold & Lang. He produced little colored pictures which could be affixed on a cardboard at every day in December.
* This was the first printed Advent Calendar, although without windows to open, published in 1908. This Calendar was named "Christmas-Calendar" or "Munich Christmas-Calendar". At the beginning of the 20th Lang produced the first Advent Calendars with little doors to open.
At this time as well the Sankt Johannis Printing Company started producing religious Advent Calendars, with Bible Verses instead of pictures behind the doors.
The Advent Calendar started a triumphal way around the globe. But Lang had to close his company in the thirties. Until that time he had produced about 30 different designs.
The World War II terminated the success of this German tradition. The cardboard was rationed and it was forbidden to produce Calendars with pictures. The first printed speciem after the war were printed by Richard Sellmer in 1946.
We know that Advent Calendars filled with Chocolate was already available in 1958.
Old joke time
I got a Liverpool advent calendar this morning but all the windows were boarded up.
Couldn't resist. :)
Quote from: GamerMan316 on December 01, 2010, 05:18:00 PM
Old joke time
I got a Liverpool advent calendar this morning but all the windows were boarded up.
Couldn't resist. :)
sweet, very funny, i love it :D
not christmassey but i thought it was funny
Why do City fans put team stickers on their cars? So they can park in handicapped spaces.
I had a hard time deciding whether to post this in All Things Christmassey or All Things Stupid.
new advent pic for you, happy christmas xx
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i know i missed yesterdys wdvent pic so heres two for today xx
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as some of u may have noticed i havent been around, no dave hasnt finally killed me for being a bitch- much as u all would love, but the router has gone kaput- again, fixed , for now so heres u pic, oh and can i take this opportunity to wish all our members a very happy christmas,and a happy new year xxxxx
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very funny, you bloody scrooge , i must admit though i am starting to feel like this, no faif i have to work over xmas, oh well, think of the money for the jan sales x
just heard this on last fm, made me laugh xx
loved playing this game last year, enjoy xx
http://www.akidsmath.com/mathgames/ctreepuzzle.html (http://www.akidsmath.com/mathgames/ctreepuzzle.html)
Quote from: fizz on December 21, 2010, 07:20:04 PM
loved playing this game last year, enjoy xx
http://www.akidsmath.com/mathgames/ctreepuzzle.html (http://www.akidsmath.com/mathgames/ctreepuzzle.html)
Thanks Fizz, 5min 20 secs I'll never see again. :). I actually quite enjoyed that.
your welcome, what other fun can you have in 5 mins :-*
Quote from: fizz on December 21, 2010, 09:18:50 PM
your welcome, what other fun can you have in 5 mins :-*
I can kill a ton of cats in 5 minutes, endless fun. ;D
4 minutes 15 seconds for me :) Do I get a prize?
Quote from: Jaynestown on December 21, 2010, 09:30:54 PM
4 minutes 15 seconds for me :) Do I get a prize?
Yep............ 65 seconds!
yep, the one with the fastest time gets a kiss from me :-* :-*
saw this receipe , me thinx i may have to go buy some vodka ;D
http://www.cocktailmaking.co.uk/displaycocktail.php/3700-ginger-spice (http://www.cocktailmaking.co.uk/displaycocktail.php/3700-ginger-spice)
Merry Xmas everybody and a Happy New Year.
(http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/christmas/xmastree.gif) (http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/christmas/elf.gif) (http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/christmas/xmastree.gif)
merry xmas everyone, and a happy new year. All the best. :-*
Merry christmas to all!!! ;D
happy christmas, hope santa has been kind and brought u all what you wanted xx
Is that the traditional Santa or the Santa everyone is familar with? You know, the one that Coca-Cola destroyed!
traditional, the one with the elves
Quote from: fizz on December 25, 2010, 05:38:20 PM
traditional, the one with the elves
Cool, so no stupid red outfit then either, nice.
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you all had a great day.
Quote from: GamerMan316 on December 25, 2010, 05:46:00 PM
Quote from: fizz on December 25, 2010, 05:38:20 PM
traditional, the one with the elves
Cool, so no stupid red outfit then either, nice.
nope prefer the traditional green, back when kids were happy with single hand carved wooden toy, and no frikin sprouts- what the hell has that got to do with the celebration of christ ???