Re: [lace-chat] party time, help needed
When I make gingerbread houses, I sprinkle coconut on the royal Icing to look like snow. For your turkey, you can put fresh grapes or cranberries around it on the platter. It looks good and it is easy. Cheers, Candida To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] party time, help needed
For christmas it would be nice to mix in some pine scent. Cearbhael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bev Walker Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 8:19 PM To: Janice Blair Cc: lace-chat-digest Subject: Re: [lace-chat] party time, help needed Hi Janice "Grate or peel any bar soap in a large bowl with potato peeler into 2 cups boiling water, (about a half cup of peelings). Add about a quarter cup of liquid laundry starch, whip on high with electric mixer. Add more soap peelings if not stiff enough.And create! It dries hard and looks like fresh fallen snow on my Christmas tree and the whole house smells divine." I cadged this from a craft site - personally I'd use unscented soap, I don't think the bar-soap smell goes well with food :( HTH -- bye for now Bev indoors in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Janice Blair wrote: > I am having our British club party at my home, a sit down meal for > about 30, luckily I don't have to make all the food, but I will need > something for the table centers and I seem to remember doing a snowy > scene years ago using soap powder for the snow. Does anyone remember > doing that, and if so, what do you mix the powder with to make it go > hard? Failing that I could use royal icing. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] party time, help needed
Hi Janice "Grate or peel any bar soap in a large bowl with potato peeler into 2 cups boiling water, (about a half cup of peelings). Add about a quarter cup of liquid laundry starch, whip on high with electric mixer. Add more soap peelings if not stiff enough.And create! It dries hard and looks like fresh fallen snow on my Christmas tree and the whole house smells divine." I cadged this from a craft site - personally I'd use unscented soap, I don't think the bar-soap smell goes well with food :( HTH -- bye for now Bev indoors in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Janice Blair wrote: > I am having our British club party at my home, a sit down meal for about 30, > luckily I don't have to make all the food, but I will need something for the > table centers and I seem to remember doing a snowy scene years ago using soap > powder for the snow. Does anyone remember doing that, and if so, what do you > mix the powder with to make it go hard? Failing that I could use royal icing. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] party time, help needed
--- Janice Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The other thing is Thanksgiving. I am hosting that > this year but decided to save some work by ordering > the turkey, potatoes, > gravy and stuffing from the local supermarket, ready > cooked, probably as cheap > as buying it and having the oven on most of the day. > It will need reheating > for about 1 1/5 hours. Does anyone know any way of > tarting up the bird so it > looks more homemade,... Hi Janice, I've been buying my Thanksgiving dinner ready-cooked for years from Safeway. I think the cooked turkey looks just like any other cooked turkey when it comes out of the oven, warmed up. I have to spend 2 hours to prepare dinner -- i.e., warm up everything and add the extras. The turkey comes in double plastic bags. The outer bag is removed, and the bird is heated in the inner bag. The bag catches all the juices. When it comes out of the oven, I carefully catch all the juices. Since there's only two of us, half of the turkey will end up in the freezer in small containers and covered with the juices. Back to the oven..I start the turkey 2 hours before eating. At one hour before eating, I put the potatoes and dressing in casserole dishes and put them in the oven, along with anything else that just needs warmed up. (I add already cooked sweet potatoes because I like them better than the white ones.) I find that the containers the potatoes and dressing come in don't fit in my oven very well, that's why I put them in different dishes. At 30 minutes ahead, I finish up with a green vegetable, put the gravy packet in a pan of hot water, make the salad, wrap the rolls in foil and tuck them in the oven. Since you're not making the whole meal, you don't have to worry about all the food details. DH and I can get at least four meals from this dinner, and there's still turkey for the freezer. This makes the cost very low per meal, and I don't have to spend six hours in the kitchen. The precooked meal gives me four hours to make lace in the living room that I wouldn't have if I made the meal myself. Plus the time I would have spent cooking on the other meals when we eat the leftovers. My suggestion is to check the quantity of gravy that comes with your turkey. Our gravy runs out before the rest of the stuff so I usually add extra. You can get canned or package mix turkey gravy to have on hand for emergencies. Have fun with your two dinners. I'm sure they will be just fine. Alice in Oregon -- staying in out of a storm. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] party time, help needed
I am having our British club party at my home, a sit down meal for about 30, luckily I don't have to make all the food, but I will need something for the table centers and I seem to remember doing a snowy scene years ago using soap powder for the snow. Does anyone remember doing that, and if so, what do you mix the powder with to make it go hard? Failing that I could use royal icing. I had an idea of putting 3" white pillar candles in my dessert glasses which are on stems, with the red and white mints down inside the straight side of the glass. Bought the candles, got home and found they only just fit in the glasses so there is no room for the mints. Darn, so now I am thinking of making a snowy base on a glass plate and setting the candle in the middle. Whilst at the dollar store I saw marshmallow snowmen and thought I could stand a few around each candle in the snow. I probably will have 4 or more tables in the family room and dining room to seat everyone, so I need some inexpensive ideas. The other thing is Thanksgiving. I am hosting that this year but decided to save some work by ordering the turkey, potatoes, gravy and stuffing from the local supermarket, ready cooked, probably as cheap as buying it and having the oven on most of the day. It will need reheating for about 1 1/5 hours. Does anyone know any way of tarting up the bird so it looks more homemade, i.e. is there something I can brush, or put on it for the reheating time. I will have to do the veg, bread rolls and desserts. This time there will only be 6 of us. As the chat list is so quiet I expect lots of ideas. :-) Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
