~July 2007 K-1 Filers II~

[KGSodie 0]

If you dump all the things you're taking with you into the living room along with your case, you can prolly pack from the couch as well

If you fancy a move to Colorado then by all means - we can move closer!!! We're looking at the north east with lovely views of the Rockies so we'll be close (ish) to Debz as well Of course, we are yet to move but still

Ahhh!! You must be soooo excited going back to Germany tomorrow!! I am so jealous! All I have here is a confused kitten who keeps shouting at our Christmas tree and a grumpy husband who kicked me out of bed this morning because I wasn't asleep So much for me getting all excited about sending out presents to my family today - now I feel miserable again

You know, I'm pretty sure if the woman is in the bed and awake, that's manguage for 'take me now you hunka hunka burning love'. Or maybe that's just me?

[weedebz 0]

Horray for the weekend. Looking forward to a nice lie in bed tomorrow!!!!

Oh and oscar the grouch (my cat) has only tried to climb christmas tree once but has taken to just lying under it like a big furry present!

Edited December 13, 2008 by weedebz

[tucson_chick 0]

my mum told me how happy she was that I am in germany, because that way I can do all the cooking, christmas baking and cleaning.

that said, I'll spend the rest of the day in the kitchen, baking christmas cookies. my mum only wants 9 different kinds of cookies.

when I'm done I'll do a first round of cleaning.

you guys probably won't hear from me again until january. (I might be able to escape my kitchen prison, but I'm not sure).

[StillThePrettiest 3]

ohhhhhh, German kitchens at Christmas...

will you share some recipes? pretty please? *bats eyelashes*

[Jeraly 4]

Horray for the weekend. Looking forward to a nice lie in bed tomorrow!!!!

Oh and oscar the grouch (my cat) has only tried to climb christmas tree once but has taken to just lying under it like a big furry present!

I think the kitten only stresses about the tree when I am in the room - I am in the bedroom today and he is asleep in here now he has stopped tearing around!!!

my mum told me how happy she was that I am in germany, because that way I can do all the cooking, christmas baking and cleaning.

that said, I'll spend the rest of the day in the kitchen, baking christmas cookies. my mum only wants 9 different kinds of cookies.

when I'm done I'll do a first round of cleaning.

you guys probably won't hear from me again until january. (I might be able to escape my kitchen prison, but I'm not sure).

Some things never change?? My mum will have to make her own prawn cocktail this year - ok so it's not 9 kinds of cookies but still... If you have any leftovers then maybe we will have to pay a visit in January

[weedebz 0]

Well for the first year in ages I'm being banned from kitchen for Christmas. My mother in law doesn't want me doing anything. I have made a christmas pud though. mmmmmmmmm.

[tucson_chick 0]

@stp: my best friend will be here any second, but I'll post a few recipes tonite, promise

[tucson_chick 0]

ok. i have NO idea how to post links to pictures here....

Cinnamonstars:

http://www.brigitte.de/kochen/rezeptsuche/...+Zimtsterntaler

Ingredients: 3 Eggwhites, a pinch of salt, 300g Powdered sugar, 300 g unpeeled, ground Almonds, 1Teaspoon ground Cinnamon, Powdered sugar for the Countertop you work on, 40g Cherry-marmelade

How-to:

Mix 2 Eggwhites and a pinch of Salt until they are stiff, Add 200g of Powdered Sugar real slowly, together with the Almonds and the Cinnamon. Wrap the dough in ClearWrap and put in fridge or outside if its cold enough, for 30minutes. Then you take 2 pieces of big ziploc bags, and roll it with a rolling pin, in between the two ziploc bags real thin (the dough is crazy sticky and would stick to the countertop without the bags). Use a star-shaped cookie-cutter and cut around 110 stars and put them on a cookie sheet with baking parchment. Preheat oven to 150C.

Mix the reminding eggwhite and powdered sugar and spread it evenly over HALF of the stars. Bake ALL stars for 15minutes, and let them cool off.

Spread the cherry marmelade over the stars WITHOUT the eggwhite on top, and put one of the stars WITH the eggwhite stuff on TOP of the cherry-stuff.

Ginger stars:

(I have no picture, but they look similar to the Cinnamon ones, but they have little pieces of candied Ginger on each tip of the star)

Ingredients: 325g Flour, 125g Sugar, 1 pinch Salt, 150g Butter, 1/2 package of Lemonpeel-flavor (or the zest of half a Lemon), 1 Egg, 50g candied GInger,

Filling: 75g candied Ginger, 75g Marzipan, 30gGingermarmelade (or Orange).

Decoration: 60g candied ginger, 100g Powdered sugar, 1-2 Tablespoons Limejuice

How to: Mix Flour, Sugar, Salt and Butter, Lemonzest and Egg and very very finely chopped (food processor would be handy) ginger in a bowl, until you have a very smooth dough. Cover and put in fridge for 2hours.

For the filling: Put the ginger in the food processor, mix chopped ginger, marcipan and the marmelade.

Roll the dough with a rolling pin very thinly to around 3mm, and cut stars with a cookie cutter. Put the stars on a cookie sheet and bake them at 175C for around 10 minutes. Let them cool off and spread the GInger-marzipan-stuff on half of them, and put another, plain on, on top of it.

For the decoration, cut the ginger in very small, thin pieces. Mix Powdered sugar and Limejuice to a thick sirupy-thing. Spread over cookies, and decorate with the ginger pieces.

I can post more recipes some time late next week if you want. Unfortunately I will be offline for the next days, my niece is in the hospital (she's 14 months and has a serious heart problem and lung problems and a bronchitis to top it off) and my sister just called to ask if I could please help her.

I hope the cookies turn out great!!!

[Jeraly 4]

Thanks so much for this Agnes!! I was looking for some Christmas goodies to make - I found a nice recipe for some Italian biscotti but I haven't made them yet so don't know what they are like

[StillThePrettiest 3]

ooo, thank you so much

I'm looking forward to having a go... will let you know how they turn out

sorry to hear about your niece

hope she's ok... but glad you're there to be able to help your sister

[Ban Hammer 12,880]

ok. i have NO idea how to post links to pictures here....

using the link you posted - if using firefox, do a right click and then select "copy image location"

when making a post, there are 5 boxes to the right of the smiley face box.

insert link

insert image

insert email link

wrap in quote tags

wrap in code tags

(hover your mouse over those boxes and shortly a name will pop up identifying the button)

select the insert image button (2nd from the left) and a little box should appear. that link you did the copy image location on earlier - click in the box and do a right click and then select paste (be sure that the http:// is erased when pasting the link, otherwise it won't work).

voila!

if using ie, you have to do a right click on the pic, then select properties. the little box that appears - drag your mouse over the address part of it to highlight the entire "address URL", then select copy. follow the same procedure above regarding using the insert image process.

[StillThePrettiest 3]

I can post more recipes some time late next week if you want...

yes please yes please yes please!

I seem to have a strange buzzing in my ears... anyone know what I can do about that?

[mox 298]

I seem to have a strange buzzing in my ears... anyone know what I can do about that?

I've got it too. Like...some kind of insect or something...strange.

[*julez* 124]

I seem to have a strange buzzing in my ears... anyone know what I can do about that?

I've got it too. Like...some kind of insect or something...strange.

That makes 3 of us! How I wish it would just go away.

[StillThePrettiest 3]

it COULD be an insect... it's sort of shrill and annoying... but I had it home and I've still got it here at work, so it would be weird if it followed me here

just strange altogether... and you guys have it too! how very weird

we should get some repellent, and maybe set some sticky traps, and see if we catch anything