Recipes+ Magshop Magazine Subscription Giveaway

11 December 2010, 06:23

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OH HAI! What would you like from Santa this year? Stuck on ideas on what to get your friends or family? How about a Magshop subscription for a whole range of magazines from Australian Gourmet Traveller to Australian House and Gardening, Woman’s Day or Rolling Stone. There’s just something about taking some time out in your day and curling up in your fav couch with a glossy magazine and a cup of tea coffee coke and drool over the perfectly arranged food.


Thanks to Nuffnang I scored the latest issue of Recipes+ which was choc a block packed with awesome Christmas ideas complete with costs per serve which comes in handy when preparing your wallet for how much you’re willing to spend on food for a party cos if you’re anything like me you tend to blow your budget by adding extras to the trolley!


Particularly loving the Xmas bbq ideas zomg bacon stuffing?! Why have I never thought of that before??


But of course my fav section in any food magazine is the desserts :D How cute are these frosty snowmen biscuits? And I’m dying at the cuteness factor of the mini coconut ice candy canes!


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So who wants to win year’s subscription to Recipes+ ? Thanks to Magshop and Nuffnang, 3 readers will each receive a Magshop subscription to Recipes+. All you gotta do is leave a comment below telling me:

What has been your worst cooking disaster at Christmas?

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1. I had just moved to a new city with new roommates and all. Had a bunch of co-workers coming over for Christmas dinner, my contribution was this fabulous chocolate cake I had seen in a magazine. Cake turned out great and frosting was made but I couldn’t frost the cake. The frosting kept melting off the cake because the house was way too warm from having the oven on for the entire day. Kept throwing it in the freezer but alas, finally gave up and just served it up with no frosting. Oh well, it still tasted great.

   — Cyndie    Dec 11, 06:41 PM    #
   
   

2. This is kind of cheating because it wasn’t really my disaster, but I was part of the reason it occurred. A few years ago I was vego so my Mum attempted a tofu loaf as the main for Christmas lunch. There is nothing wrong with my Mum’s cooking abilities, a loaf of tofu is intrinsically a terrible idea. Halfway through cooking it her oven broke and we were forced to barbeque brittle, dry hunks of it on the BBQ to finish it off. Needless to say it was pretty dire and the tofu loaf has never made an appearance at another Christmas.

   — Lau@CorridorKitchen    Dec 11, 08:25 PM    #
   
   

3. Ahhhhhhh. Most disastrous thing was when I was trying to make some shortbread a few years ago for Christmas. (I don’t remember what year !) but I was half way making it ..when I realised we didn’t have enough flour…… I don’t even know why I didn’t check beforehand but yeah xD and then …uh, the bowl was filled with like butter and sugar …and no flour. :\ So I had to call my parents to buy some and hence ruin the surprise. >>” And then by the time they came home with the flour, the mixture had turned a bit weird. And uhh …I just wasted a whole lot of butter on nothing :(

   — Melody    Dec 12, 04:51 AM    #
   
   

4. Great giveaway Santa Suze!

   — Gastronomy Gal    Dec 12, 09:34 AM    #
   
   

5. how awesome – you have gingy at the top of your tree! and are those your lollipops from the wedding on either side? hehe

   — Jacq    Dec 13, 01:57 AM    #
   
   

6. We had the whole 12 member family for lunch. My wife and I started cooking at dawn, wach doing our own dishes.

   I finished one and carefully turned off the element.

   Unfortunately I turned off the wrong switch and at unveiling time the turkey was still raw – I had turned off the oven.

   — Brian    Dec 13, 09:04 AM    #
   
   

7. hehe it would have to be the time I was cooking roast veggies in my mother in laws overn. 1.5 hours later I opened the oven door only to find that the oven was stone cold! Ah yup – I seem to have forgotten to turn it on…oops!

   — Lisa    Dec 13, 09:42 AM    #
   
   

8. I made ice cream cone cupcakes and topped it with a large swirl of strawberry buttercream. On the hot Dec sunny day, on the ride over as a surprise for the kids…the buttercream melted and turned it into water-y goop on top of ice cream cone cupcakes. I was so so upset til a little girl walked up to me and said…“Now it really looks like ice cream..cause it melts in the sun!”

   — Erin    Dec 13, 11:56 AM    #
   
   

9. not so much a disaster – but maybe a miscalculation….making gingerbread ‘biscuits’ about the size of my face :/

   — Helen    Dec 13, 02:42 PM    #
   
   

10. I once made a sponge cake for my Dad, mixed it all up and put it in the oven. I turned back around to tidy up and found that I’d left the flour part in a white plastic bowl on the table. White bowl – white flour – poor eyesight! Oops!!

    — Brooke    Dec 13, 05:53 PM    #
    
    

11. I have an Aunt who is Loud and a little on the Crazy side. We had Christmas at her house a few years ago and I helped her cook. She bought these really nice chicken wings that we fried up KFC Style. I was so proud of them, Crispy and it smelt delicious. I put the chicken on the table. They were as hard as rocks. So hard that my Uncle chipped a tooth. We ended up having sides for Christmas that year. Note to self, Never trust a crazy family member with Christmas dinner.

    — Katherine    Dec 14, 02:11 PM    #
    
    

12. Two years ago we decided to use our brand spanking new wood fired oven (for the first time ever) to cook the turkey for christmas. Unfortunately we didn’t realise the temperature gauge was broken – and instead of cooking the turkey at a regular temperature, we had an almost incinerated turkey. Needless to say, the turkey never made it to the table!

    — Kristy @ ksayerphotography    Dec 15, 09:42 AM    #
    
    

13. Its a tradition for my family to bake a black forest cake every Christmas. As the cake is rather tall, one year while icing it, I somehow managed to push of the top layer of the unsteady cake and as mum tried to save it, ended up pushing the whole cake off the table onto the floor. We had to buy ingredients and make a new black forest in 3 hours

    — Cheryl    Dec 15, 05:59 PM    #
    
    

14. One year my ex-boyfriend decided to try and impress my extended family with his self-declared “world’s best roast potato’s” (They were pretty yum) which I vouched for! However, waking up at 9, feeling rather ordinary after getting in at 4, we completely forgot about making the roast potatoes for lunch. So at about 10, we started peeling, for about 20 people. And then I decided that we had best cut them small so that they might cook in an hour. It was then we discovered that a housemate’s ex had taken her baking pan when she moved out (on christmas eve!) so we only had a small baking tray, and a brownie sized one. We ended up basically frying them on the stove, and trying frantically to finish them off in the oven. Huge non-event!

    — Sally    Dec 17, 12:21 AM    #
    
    

15. That would be a tossup between: the time my mum and I took the elaborate turkey breast construction out if the oven and prompty dropped it onthe floor (steaming stuffing flying to all corners if the
    kitchen). We still ate it – love the 7 second rule!
    Or last Christmas when my mother in law nearly set fire to my parents kitchen by pouring oil over a cast iron pan full of prawns on the stove and set fire to the lot. Quick thinking by my partner prevented the firies from being called…

    — Jackie    Dec 19, 10:36 PM    #
    
    

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