Thought I'd pop in to do a quick update.
The thermomix is still a mainstay in my kitchen, had to replace the seal but still going strong. Oh and, lol, I also need to replace the measuring cup at some point soon as the cup part came off the top - it's now a very short measuring cup! Silly thing was it was about to break into two and I was being super careful with it and then I left it sitting in place whilst kneading pizza dough! LOL, yep of course the top bit flew off as soon as things got bumpy!
OK last couple of days.
Made strawberry jam on Thursday - can't remember anything else, but it's still the easiest way to make jam.
Friday, made stock and wontons. (I still prefer my wontons boiled not steamed so did that but ground/grated all the ingredients in the thermomix - garlic, ginger, carrot, celery, mixed in mince, soy sauce, fish sauce).
And then added garlic, ginger and veg to the stock for the broth to go with the wontons.
Saturday - boiled eggs. Anyone else think the thermomix is the best egg boiler?! I'm not a big fan but it's one of my girls favourite eggs and the thermomix makes it so easy and they don't crack!
Chocolate cake - left the older girls making a couple of the Too Easy chocolate cake's from the EDC and yep even my kids found them too easy - well after they'd found the flour! (how many texts can that take!)
Sunday - Having family over for dinner.
Not sure if I used thermi in the morning but for the dinner I did a curry night.
Desert - firstly whilst clean I whipped cream for the cake (baked yesterday)
Dish 1 - a slow cooked beef and potato curry. I milled a bunch of spices, garlic and ginger in the tmx, (didn't clean out properly as the daal was going in next) added this to beef, onions and potatoes slow cooked on the stove. All put on before guests arrived.
Dish 2 - a chinese chicken curry. (so had all the ingredients cut up and ready to throw in except the frozen peas) This I used a bought sauce from the chinese supermarket that my kids just adore - adding chicken, peas, onions, celery and mushrooms.
Dish 3 - Daal, my eldest's favourite is the EDC tomato Dahl so that's what I made.
I prepped everything up until the cooking of the lentils, tomatoes etc bit, all sitting in the tmx and then just turned it on when ready to cook)
So all cooking at once, rice in the rice cooker (which grr as always didn't do quite as good a job as the tmx, but at least it was minimal work from me and everything cooking at once so I could enjoy the company) and a lovely big meal served easily. Added in a greek yoghurt side and tomato and cucumber salad (lemon and vinegar dressing similar to the Indian cookbook one) and everyone loved it.
So easy and I have to say cheap to provide a great Indian feast - and we have so many leftovers, fed us today and tomorrow for lunch as well!!
Really all for under $30!
Today - Monday - leftover day, lol!!
Tomorrow I need to do some baking for school starting back on Wednesday - planning some banana muffins, muesli bar of some sort, maybe some fruit balls. Or if I have some even some rice bubble bars as a starting back at school treat.
Showing posts with label beef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beef. Show all posts
Friday/Saturday 5th November - porridge, indian beef, custard
Friday - porridge for breakfast.
Rice for lunch.
Saturday - porridge for breakfast
Dinner - made an Indian beef dish.
No recipe, milled various spices (cumin, coriander seed, little fenugreek, cloves), chopped garlic, ginger, little chili, onion, sauteed all 8 mins. Added meat, tin of tomatoes, cream, little water, cooked an hour at 90 on reverse, added chopped mushrooms and cooked 7 mins. Served with rice.
Dessert - custard. Haven't made custard in ages, forgot how yum it was. Made choc vanilla. So great pop it in when you dish up and there is lovely hot custard ready for when you've eaten.
Saturday 17th September - strawberry sorbet, teriyaki beef
Lovely weather here today, feels like summer!!
So after being in and out all day we had Strawberry Sorbet (edc recipe) for afternoon snack, YUM!
The kids all love sorbet and a great cooling afternoon snack and of course so easy in the thermomix.
Dinner - Teriyaki beef and noodles (meat on the menu recipe), added mushrooms and brocolli when cooking to make it a full meal.
Haven't had this in ages but was always a favourite and still is yum. dd3 asked if we could have it again tomorrow.
Wednesday 24th August - porridge, gourmet beef
Breakfast - porridge
Dinner - Robyn's gourmet beef from the forum with carrots and mushrooms. Yum as always!!!
Saturday 30th July - butter, tortilla's, stock, beef stroganoff
Made a couple of lots of spreadable butter (one for dh to take to work and one for home).
Made two batches of tortilla's. One plain, the other with garlic and rosemary for lunch.
Made chicken stock.
And then for dinner made beef stroganoff.
Thursday 7th July - beef madras
Dinner - beef madras (my conversion of the Curtis Stone recipe)
Once again an absolute favourite, all the kids had 2nds (or more).
Saturday 2nd July - cheesy bread rolls, Honey Beef and Beans
Bread rolls with cheese and pizza topper sprinkled on them. Yum
Dinner - Honey Beef and Beans
This is really yummy.
I cooked it for 40 mins, then added a can of rinsed chick peas and some sliced mushrooms and cooked for a further 10 mins.
A really lovely flavour, sweet and almost spicy, the kids all loved it and had seconds. I used chick peas as they are everyone's favourite beans and also added mushrooms, other veg could also be added. Served with rice.
Saturday 25th June - teriyaki beef
Dinner - teriyaki beef. Served with rice noodles (cooked separately at the same time) and also added mushrooms and red capsicum whilst it was cooking.
I also fried up some spring onions to put over the top.
Saturday 21st May - pancakes, chicken slice, cheese and zucchini muffins beef curry
Breakfast - pancakes
Snacks - cheese and zucchini muffins. Must make some different ones but they are dd3's favourite and fairly healthy. Cooked in a mini muffin tin perfect for lunch boxes (and preschool don't even complain about them - sent her in with a bite size piece of the lemon yoghurt cake last week and it was sent home - but they feed them honey sandwiches for morning tea!!!!)
Lunch - made chicken pies/slice. Sautéed mushrooms, garlic and butter in the tmx and added to leftover chicken, a dollop of sour cream and pepper. Wrapped the mixture in puff pastry and baked. Everyone loves these.
Dinner - beef curry. Made a curry based on the rogan josh recipe in the Indian book. Was ok, tasted fine but was a bit watery and grey. Added mushrooms, capsicum and green beans for the last 15 minutes to make a complete meal with rice. (also used ground cinnamon etc not whole)
Wednesday 18th May - porridge, curried mince
Breakfast - porridge.
Dinner - reheated some of the curried mince I made a couple of weeks ago in a big mince cook and freeze, adding some capsicum and green beans and cooked for 10 mins. Served with rice.
Monday 16th May - porridge, stir fried beef with red capsicum
Breakfast - porridge
Dinner - a new recipe, our first from the Taste's of Asia cookbook I got last week.
Stir fried beef with red capsicum.
This was a very easy and quick stir fry (as stir fries should be) with the recipe times the vegies were lovely and crisp and perfectly cooked. The sauce was nice. Nothing exciting but a lovely flavour and everyone enjoyed. I would definitely make it again.
Saturday 14th May - boiled eggs, potato salad, mashed potatoes, chocolate icecream, lemon yoghurt cake, Gourmet beef,
Breakfast - boiled eggs
Lunch - cooked up cubed potatoes and made a potato salad
(cooked potatoes, cooked crispy bacon, parsley, red onion, mayonnaise and yoghurt)
Also used some of the potatoes to make mashed potato.
Afternoon - made Julie O's chocolate ice creambut added 150ml milk - this made the quantity up to the amount my ice cream maker needs and I think made it just right, still very rich but not as overpowering.
Also dd1 made Lemon Yoghurt cake, recipe also on the forum.
Dinner - Robyn's Gourmet Beef - added carrots and mushrooms to it and served with rice.
Dessert was the cake and icecream.
Thursday 28th April - porridge, curry mince, savoury mince, meatballs, pastry rolls
Breakfast - porridge
Bought a load of mince so made
Lunch - curried mince (with extras for the freezer).
1 tsp coriander seeds, 1 tsp cumin seeds, 2 cloves of garlic, chop
Add one onion and chop
Add oil, saute 3 mins
Add 800g mince, 1 tbsp curry powder, 2 tbsp curry paste, 1 tin of tomatoes
Cook 20 mins, 100 degrees, reverse, sp 1.
(really impressed by this and will make a good few meals worth for us, the kids aren't big meat eaters, so happy to have rice and veg with a few tablespoons of the sauce).
Dinner - Savoury mince (bolognaise type)
2 cloves garlic, 1 chili deseeded and chop
Add one onion and one green capsicum and chop
Add oil and saute
Add 600g mince, tin tomatoes, paprika and mixed herbs.
Cook 20 mins, 100 °, reverse, speed 1.
So tonight had the mince with corn chips and salad (nachos). Also used some on puff pastry with cheese and capsicum to make savoury rolls for the girls for lunch tomorrow at school.
The rest went into the freezer.
And with the rest of the mince made meatballs.
chopped garlic and onion and bread.
Added mince, worcester sauce and tomato sauce and mixed.
Made into balls.
We will have one lot of these tomorrow night, the second lot went into the freezer.
So loads of easy meals in the freezer ready for busy nights.
Amazing how far you can make $14 worth of mince go!!!!
Wednesday 27th April - beef stroganoff
Dinner - beef stroganoff. Yum, lovely to have a TMX meal again.
Thursday 14th April - smoothie, porridge, burritos, tacos
Breakfast - smoothie and porridge
Lunch/dinner - made a big batch of mexican beef (chopped garlic, onion, capsicum, chili and sauted, added mince, paprika, ground cumin, cayenne pepper, mixed herbs, brown sugar, a tin of tomatoes and cooked for 15 mins.
Lunch served with tortillas and salad. Dinner served with taco shells and salads.
Friday 8th April - smoothie, vanilla pudding, butter,chili con carne
Breakfast - smoothie
Made vanilla pudding (still the biggest yum here, thinking of doing a choc version?)
and butter - so thinking I might need to use the buttermilk tomorrow - maybe scone?
Dinner - chili con carne
Wednesday 30th March - smoothie, beef balti, kfc
Breakfast - strawberry smoothie
Lunch - made a quick beef and capsicum curry with balti curry paste.
Dinner - we used some of Chookie's kfc mix on chicken pieces - baked in the oven then quickly shallow fried them when cooked to crisp them up - yum!
Tuesday 15th March - quick curry, Persian beef and lime stew.
Lunch I made a super quick curry, sliced beef, curry paste, left over defrosted stroganoff sauce!, cooked for 10 mins, added mushrooms (another 5 minutes) and capsicum (another 5 mins), added some cooked rice for a sort of curry stew. Really really yum.
Monday 28th February - smoothie, beef and noodles
Breakfast - smoothie
Dinner - marinated some beef strips in a combination of garlic, soy sauce, kecap manis and sherry.
Then cooked them with carrots and broccoli for 15mins, 100°, reverse, speed 1.
Served with some rice noodles - popped in the thermoserver and poured boiling water over to cook.
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