Old style Preparations for Christmas 2011!!

zippychick

2011 post!!!!! Hi all , Zippychick here..... last years christmas thread was started in July, so we are behind the game!!!!!

I have now checked and there should be no broken links. I have also added some more links!

Any other links to go in, let me know!

HO HO HO HO HO!!!!!!


So this will be the one running Old Style Christmas 2011 thread

I'll make this a kind of Christmas mega index if that makes sense!

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN THINK OF MORE FOR ME TO ADD! BOOKMARK THIS THREAD SO YOU HAVE ALL THE HANDY LINKS IN ONE PLACE! :j:D

Some linkies:D:A

Some existing threads from Special occasions board

Preparing for christmas 2011

Let's get started for christmas 2011

Thrifty gifty money making for christmas 2011 and other special occasions etc

Homemade christmas decorations

Making cards ideas part 5

Sock monkeys

Magic reindeer food

Snowman soup

Christmas eve hamper 2011

Christmas crafting ideas

Santas challenge

Christmas dinner threads:j

Cleaning the oven

Light starter for christmas day lunch

Christmas dinner - preparing in advance

Christmas dinner- help it's my first!

Cheap Christmas dinner

What do you do for Christmas dinner?

Diabetic Christmas dinner

Vegetarian Christmas alternative?

How to cook a three bird roast


Other useful specific food links :j

Potatoes

Frozen home made roast potatoes - and Pinks specific post

Crispy roast potatoes

The perfect mashed potato

What is the point in mashed potato? (use your leftover to make potato farls for boxing day brunch ! )

Freezing mashed potato

Sweet potatoes

Cooking and prepping various veg

Parsnips

Oodles of carrots

Cauliflower- recipe please?

Cauliflower cheese

Leeks

Mushy peas

Spruce up your sprouts

Freezing sprouts

Red cabbage recipe wanted

Cabbage

Gravies/sauces

Decent gravy please

Making gravy when you haven't had a roast

Bread sauce

Apple sauce

Making own cranberry sauce

What to do with leftover cranberry sauce

HM Ham glaze

Homemade stuffing

Leftover stuffing

Meat Preparation/making stock/using up leftover meat

The best christmas turkey

Turkey crown

Leftover turkey

Turkey soup?

Defrosting turkey

Turkey mince

Turkey leg recipes

Freezing cooked turkey

:xmassmile

How to roast a whole chicken

Whole chicken in the slow cooker

Leftover chicken recipes please

How do i make my own chicken stock?

Chicken stock - how to make it in a slow cooker?

Chicken stock to soup

Chicken soup - how do i make it?


:xmassmile

Help with cooking a goose please

Reuse goose fat?

:xmassmile

Duck for christmas dinner help

Cooking a whole duck

What to do with duck stock?

Leftover duck

Duck breasts

Duck eggs

:xmassmile

What to do with a gammon joint?

Cooking a gammon joint in the slow cooker

Gammon and coke

Exciting things with gammon?

gammon stock?

Leftover gammon

Salty gammon joint?

gravy/sauce to go with gammon?

Difference between gammon and ham?

:xmassmile

Partridge

Pheasant recipes/suggestions

:xmassmile

Pigs in blankets

Christmas dinner, the leftovers thread

Desert/sweet related

Christmas baking 2011

when is the right time to make a christmas cake

Quick query on making my own christmas cake

Iced marzipan - my first cake

Recipe for christmas cake

HM alcohol free christmas pud

Christmas pudding recipes?

Christmas pudding in slow cooker - is it possible?

Shortbread recipe

How do you use brandy butter?

Trifle

HM custard

What can i do with custard

Baileys cheesecake

Mince pies and mincemeat

Mince Pies

Inspire me- 1/3 smll jar mincemeat

Question about Christmas Mincemeat - Delia recipe

Best Mincemeat Ever?

The best mince pie pastry ever? Cream

how to use up single cream

Double cream

Clotted cream surplus

Can i freeze cream?

Making my own butter

Cream refuses to whip

Over whipped double cream

Make your own ice cream


General Food:j

Homemade food gifts for the holidays

Christmas hamper help for a pensioner please

Home baked pressies

Vodka jelly

Christmas eve - dinner/tea

What do you have on your christmas day menu?

Christmas breakfast - ideas please

Christmas pudding flapjacks

Best Christmas recipes hunt

Christmas buffet ideas

Can i freeze cheese?

Cheese straws

What to do with leftover bits of cheese

Cheese rind

HM cheese scones

Presents:j

Make your own Christmas booze

Flavoured vodka

Turning cheap vodka into expensive tasting vodka

Mulled wine recipe

Home made irish liquer

Homemade wine

Old Style Christmas presents

Homemade gifts

Homemade kids christmas gifts

General:j

Best Old Style moneysaving christmas hints and tips

How long after christmas day will you be food shopping?

Is anyone taking their OS hat off on Christmas day?

Christmas eve - what are you cooking today?

Christmas dinner -what did you learn?

We don't like turkey

New year old style resolutions

traditional new year meals

How long does wine keep when opened?

Wine to cook with

red wine stain help

zippychick

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Oh yes, it's the Christmas 2011 Mega thread!!!!!!:D:o
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Triker

Fantastic, have been christmas MSE shopping already and thinking about what kind of christmas we'll be having this year...either very quiet or very not quiet. :rudolf::xmastree:

Rikki

:xmassign:

:santa2:

:snow_grin

:xmastree:

:xmassmile:

:T I'm all excited now.

jannyannie

Hi Zippychick

Thanks for the thread. I'm all behind this year, usually I've got half my pressies bought and several hundred saved up, but have had to use my savings to pay for other things. Have decided to concentrate on the essentials this year and will be pruning my Christmas list.

Also Ds will be with his Dad this year so our celebrations will be a bit different. Definitely into the alcohol side of things . Will be having a party at some point. Off to have a browse.

Jan x

Triker

Here's some free christmas smilies....just click on it, right click copy and right click paste on your christmas post.....:D



to Zippychick for all your work...
















Special Thanks to the HysterSisters site fo having these fantastic smilies available to share.:T

Molly41

I have been very quietly whispering the C word for a few weeks now on the OS thread :santa2: I love the festive period and the run up to it. It starts for me when Lakeland send out their christmas catalogues. Oh how exciting:xmastree:

Gingerbiscuit_2

Oh excited this will be a good thread, am I hoping to make more gifts this year already got an order for crochet blanket so need to start soon if it has come of being finished! Shame wool isnt very old style price still.

Rikki

I noticed the Cleaning the Oven is working okay. :mad:

Is this compulsory?

ifonlyitwaseasier

Rikki wrote: »

I noticed the Cleaning the Oven is working okay. :mad:

Is this compulsory?

only if you want your OH to do it


i notice we have no mincemeat linkie ZIPPYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!! do we have any OS recipes my search came out mentioning it but not finding any??

LolaLemon

I am soo following this thread religiously.... I love Christmas, but not the over consumerism... have been taking note if what 4 year old son is interested in so I can save for it...
I normally start in April. But past 2 years I've bn too skint.

I don't buy for a lot if people; son, mum, dad, granda, sister, brother, 2 Godkids and now, a boyfriend.
I try and make hampers...
We bake for the neighbours, who have been all helpful all year.

Today I picked up some skirts for goddaughter, £1 each, reduced from £15 & £17!
Bought vodka in to try and make flavored vodka... where does everyone get their little bottles from?