10th May 2012

Sorry for being so absent and really will try to start doing some more spotlight days.

Tuesday this week I took a couple of photos. 

Dinner I made the pea and ham soup from the Robogourmet app (used chicken stock made in the tmx instead of water). You really do need a small hock to fit in the steaming basket though. Those that liked it really did, but 2 out of the 5 of us didn't like it, included the two biggest soup eaters dd2 and dd3. So not going to make it onto our regular menu, but a nice ham and pea soup. 

Also made cheese topped bread rolls to go with it. 

Dessert was custard tarts. 

Made a thickish custard in the tmx. Meanwhile take a packet of wonton wrappers. Place one wrapper, lightly wet, sprinkle on some castor or icing sugar, place a second wrapper on top so it makes a star type shape. Place in a muffin tin and bake 10-15mins. Allow the cases and the custard to cool. Then pour a bit of the custard in each case and put in the fridge to chill. 

Lovely served with berries!

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.

Friday 17th June - porridge, stock, chicken and veg soup, chocolate custard

Breakfast - porridge

Then made chicken stock.

Dinner - using the chicken stock our Friday night soup - tonight was chicken and veg soup (similar to the last one I made) a favourite of mine!

Dessert - chocolate custard (with real chocolate as well as cocoa powder), yum. Not made custard in ages and this is real winter favourite!!! So easy with the tmx to set it going whilst eating dinner and yummy hot custard ready for dessert.

Sunday 20th March - pancakes, sweet paprika, choc custard

Breakfast was pancakes.

I then made some sweet paprika from red capsicums we'd dehydrated.

And dessert was chocolate custard.

Friday 18th February - smoothie, vegetables, chocolate custard

Breakfast - smoothie

Dinner - steamed veg in the varoma to go with dinner.

Made chocolate custard for dessert. (love how easy it is to pop this on to cook whilst eating the main course).

Friday 5th November - easy curry, honey soy and curry marinades, wonton soup, choc custard

Lunch - my 3 year old dd asked for curry and rice for lunch (as she does half the time) and usually when we are short of time I just use some curry paste and a fry pan but decided today to do a super quick curry in the tmx.

1 pork fillet cubed (around 200g I guess)
1/2 an onion
1 clove of garlic
EVOO
2 tbsp curry paste (Patak's Rogan Josh)
1/2 tin of tomatoes
a little water.

chop garlic and onion and saute for 2mins 30 sec in EVOO - 100° sp 1
Add meat and saute 1 min 100° reverse sp 1
add curry paste, tomatoes and a little water
cook 16 mins 100° reverse sp 1.

Served with rice done in the rice cooker so all ready in around 20 mins. Was really nice. Much easier than the usual method and less messy.


Made a couple of marinades, dh is doing a bbq at the cricket club tomorrow so made up and marinated some chicken pieces for him.
1. Honey and Soy marinade (garlic, ginger, soy sauce, honey, little sesame oil, olive oil)
2. Curry marinade (curry powder, lemon juice, chilli)

Wonton soup for dinner (recipe http://thermomixmeals.blogspot.com/2010/07/tuesday-13th-july.html )



Dessert - chocolate custard. No flour. Seems we can't please everyone with custard consistency, some like some flour others none. But yummy and perfect on a cold horrible supposedly November and nearly summer day!

Wed 27th October - smoothie, creme brulee, chicken piquant

Breakfast - mango smoothie.

Dinner:

Chicken in piquant tomato sauce

Garlic and onion, sauté

Add

500g Chicken thighs

3/4 cup red wine

Anchovies x 4

Red pepper flakes generous pinch ( I used paprika)

Can tomatoes

Cook 20 mins, 100 degrees, reverse spd 1

From Glorious soups and stews of Italy by

Dimencia marchetti

As this was cooking I realised the anchovy taste was going to be too strong for the girls. But served it with rice and veg and just pulled a few pieces of chicken out without serving with much sauce and they all ate it happily.

Dessert was Creme Brulee - yum!

Monday 27th September - dip, honey soy chicken and steamed veg, custard

In the morning I made garlic and herb dip (edc)

Then made the marinade for the honey soy chicken wingettes.

Dinner cooked the wingettes whilst steaming veg (bok choy, carrot, yellow squash, brocolli, capsicum) in the varoma and served with rice.

Desert - chocolate custard.

Thursday 16th September - spinach/feta dip, pasta, custard

Dip - made the spinach and feta dip again http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4292.0 - def a winner.

Dinner - Creamy tomato and salami pasta from the EDC

Dessert - vanilla custard.

Monday 30th August - vanilla custard

Made vanilla custard for desert.

Friday 6th August - icing sugar, custard

Made icing sugar this morning to sprinkle on the cake to take to school.

Dessert was chocolate custard.

Tried it with no cornflour but it was very thin, so then added 10g and cooked a few more minutes but still a bit thick. Will try 5g next time.

Thur 22nd July - smoothie, cheese, dips, rice, custard

Thursday 22nd

Breakfast made a smoothie - oats, frozen mixed berries, banana, failed yoghurt, milk - yum yum! Everyone loved this one.

Made up some grated cheese (we go through quite a lot as you may have noticed, the girls have a lot of wraps and salads with it. Though the last two days dd2 has taken leftovers (soup and pasta) to school in a thermos for lunch (got really cute little thermos' from K-Mart) which she has loved.

I then made two dips to take to a friends - garlic and herb and beetroot. All ready and still time to take the kids to school! Loving how quick and easy things are with the Thermomix.

Dinner I made fried rice using this recipe.

http://quirkycooking.blogspot.com/2009/08/thermomix-fried-rice.html

I must of messed up the rice/water quantities a bit though as it boiled dry and some of the rice was a bit crunchy - dd1 loved it, lol, but not the rest of us, it was ok but not great.

Dessert was chocolate custard - I used 20g cornflour, 2 eggs, 550g milk, 50g sugar and some cocoa (about 2 tablespoons???) - was very yummy though still quite thick (not a bad texture but the girls like it very runny, though did mean less mess for dd3), will go down to 10g of cornflour or maybe none next time to see.

So even though I wasn't home from 9-3.15 the Thermomix got a good work out today.

First useage - mash, veg and custard.

So my Thermomix has already had it's first use. I already had crab cakes for dinner so I served them with mashed potato and steamed carrots.

I put 650g potatoes in the basket, 900ml water in the bowl, carrots in the varoma .

Cooked 20 mins - temperature Varoma - Speed 3.

Put the varoma aside, emptied the bowl and put the cooked potatoes, milk, butter and pepper in the bowl and mashed the potatoes for 10 seconds on speed 4.

Lovely.

For dessert I made vanilla custard. Another hit. Would use less flour next time for a runnier custard - dd2 in particular found it too thick and floury.