Family of 5 'shop from home'food storage challenge...

morwenna

D&DD wrote: »

I've had terrible trouble since yesterday evening even getting the home page up and this is the first time I've managed to get as far as the forums :eek:
'Tis awful...I get withdrawal :rotfl:
Hope everyone is well just off to *hopefully fingers crossed* catch up...if I suddenly disappear you know 'the Gremlins' have got me

I don't think it's just you hon, I've been having terrible access problems, I find hitting "refresh" a lot helps...

I now feel very badly about accusing DS1 of downloading..:o

applemella

christmas cookies
125g butteror marg
2/3 cup icing sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 cups plain flour 1 tbs currants
mix butter ,sugar, egg yolk and vanilla until light and creamy.Add flour and currants.Mix to a soft dough. Roll out thinly and leave in fridge for 20 mins. Cut out shapes and bake 20 mins 160 c.
Sorry about the 'cup' measurements. I bought a cheap set of measuring cups from Ikea a while ago.
These biscuits are yummy!

Yategirl

Morning

thanks for the recipes and ideas:) I will sit and copy a few out tonight and get them laminated for him Ds2 is going to be chuffed!

I have my onions salting redady for the onion marmalade Just going to make some soup now for lunch and I have a ham soaking for tea so that will be another batch of soup (or maybe stock) for the freezer!

babychick

morning all,

hope some of you make it on here today - it's so quiet, I can only guess that the gremlins are taking over for the time being.

Anyway, I'm at work today before a few days off (to prepare for xmas)... pass your fantastic xmassy recipes this way please!!

JAMIEDODGER

applemella - great recipe, i might give that a go later!

babychick - ive managed to get on this morning so im hoping thats a good sign!

yategirl - :wave:


got soaked taking dd to nursery:D never mind, i am actually enjoying the fresh air and exercise!

have done a little paperwork this morning yuk! have also just made the lemon curd recipe from this thread and....wow!!! yum yum yum!

2 and a half little jars, i am keeping one and the other two are for xmas prezzies!

off up to the post office in a mo as the rain seems to have died off....and when i come back its breadmaking time again!!!

have a good morning all...

kethry

morning...

Yategirl: good luck with the onion marmalade.. don't forget to let us know how it goes!

Jamiedodger: its going to rain on and off all day so yeah. Get out to the post office while you can.. the kind of day where you want to stay inside and drink soup, really!!!

Today i've got to go out.. its Sinterklaas (Feast of St Nicholas, big thing in the Netherlands, and OH is dutch), and i promised him a meat Bukhit (see here for explanation - the last photo!). so got to see if i can get some cheaper cooked meat from one of those places that do lots of it (Gabbotts, up here in Manchester), go to the post office to send off a bunch of post and pay some bills, do a bit of shopping, make some bread, brandy the christmas cakes, and check on, possibly decant, the sloe gin and damson gin. Should be fun! Also going to pop into the local butchers, see if he's doing turkey again this year. I get just the right sized turkey for my oven from him every year, so it works well. Its a nice turkey too, gives me giblets n all. Last year i got a turkey (with about 3 sets of giblets, lol), a huge leg of lamb, sausagemeat for stuffing and some extra thick, extra wide, extra fatty streaky bacon (for the top of the turkey) for about £40, which i think is pretty good going.

And at some point i need to reboil the onion marmalade and reboil the strawberry preserve (which is a bit liquid), and label all the jars.... must get that done. Will feel better about christmas once that is done, i'm sure..

keth
xx

Yategirl

You both sound very busy! Raining a lot here too... we have a sunny spell atm thankfully missed the worst of the rain on the preschool run!

House smells lovely of onions and vinegar! on the 4hr boil now

mummysaver

Good afternoon, finally caught up with this thread after finding it ages ago! I'm so excited my panny arrived today,:j only had a rubbish breadmaker before that quickly died and so was doing it by hand, nice but takes a lot of time! Nobody I know seems to be very excited about my new arrival :rolleyes: , so I thought all of you might be! I'm desperate to try it out, but need more flour, can't think where it all goes, I was asked if I was doing a salt dough stall for Chrimbo when I last bought my usual amount! Got to wait in for ds's pressie to be delivered, meant to be here by 1 o'clock, we shall see! Only downside of bargain hunting for Chrimbo pressies on the net is waiting around for deliveries! Need to get out to get this flour, also to completely restock freezer in garage, bribed ds to clean it out for me so we're all ready for all the batch cooking I'm planning, now that my slow cooker has been replaced, oh melted the lead on it somehow! Seems like all I've done recently has been spend money on cooking things, still I do use my slow cooker a lot, and it was reduced in Argos . It's about to be filled with mince and toms and herbs and stuff so that I can make lots of bol sauce, will need to cool and freeze it before the hoards get home and start dipping spoons into it, else once again there'll be nothing left - yes my lot really can eat a 6.5 litre slow cooker full of stuff and then ask for dinner! Hope the delivery man arrives in a mo!

lollyred1

Hi all well have had such busy week havent stopped. We got a replacement car after ours gave up the ghost, it was £430ish only little nissan sunny but will see us through til May when we plan on getting new one. have listed other one on ebay and so far have had offers of £280 :j :j .
I will Find out next week where im going back to work in jan keeping everything crossed not to go back to original place.
My bread maker and slow cooker are both working over time today trying to stock freezer with decent food before xmas.

Oh and i have vowed never to shop with Tescos again after been treated terrible this weekend, so any suggestions on where to shop cheaply would be great. Descovered lidls last night and was very happy spent £10 and came out with 3 bags full :j

Yategirl

Mummysaver..

yes my lot really can eat a 6.5 litre slow cooker full of stuff and then ask for dinner!

.. I have a dh like that.... I give him a plate piled high with food (that includes the extra veg I did for next days bubble and squeak).. he wolfs it down and then asks "what's for dinner?" and this man is as skinny as a beanpole :rolleyes:

Lollyred - well done on the car! What happened in Tesco's?? Have you any small greengrocers and butchers? then you could use Lidl for the rest?