Tues 25th October - avocado drink, chicken stock, pizza dough and sauce

Breakfast made the avocado drink, Alpukat Beating, from the night before's Junior MasterChef - http://www.masterchef.com.au/french-brioche-with-rhubarb-coulis-and-choc-orange-ricotta-and-alpukat-beating.htm

I did

1 cup of milk,

1 small avocado,

1 tablespoon caster sugar (could mill this first if you don't have any on hand)

1 tablespoon of cream

per person, mixed for 30seconds on speed 5

Topped with some ground cinnamon.

Really yum and very filling!

Next time I'd do less sugar though.

Made some chicken stock from Sunday nights roast. (usual recipe)

Dinner was pizza, so the dough (edc) and tomato sauce (chopped onion and garlic, sauteed, added tin tomatoes, tomato puree and mixed herbs and cooked) were made in the tmx.

Sunday 15th August - smoothie, crepes, lemonade, hommus, bread, pasta

Poor Thermomix didn't get used yesterday!! First time. We were out all day and had bbq dinner.

But made up for it today.

Breakfast.

Made banana smoothie and then crepes (edc)

Afternoon made lemon/mandarinade (3 small lemons, one mandarin, tray of ice cubes, 100g sugar (blitz first), 1L of sparkling water.

hommus (EDC)

Isi's bread http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2729.0

This is such lovely bread! Agree with the other reviews. Just perfect!

And the family favourite - creamy tomato and salami pasta from the EDC for dinner.

(so dd2 can take some leftovers to school for lunch tomorrow).

Fri 23 July - smoothie, vegie drink, butter chicken

Friday 23rd July

Breakfast - smoothie - banana, frozen berries, yoghurt, milk

Morning tea- Vegetable crush.

1 red capsicum

2 small tomatoes

2 sticks of celery

1 small garlic clove

6 ice cubes

bunch of parsley

pepper.

dropped the garlic onto the blades at speed 7 for a few seconds, then added all ingredients and whizzed up - added pepper to taste.

Yummy and so good for you.

Dinner - butter chicken (from EDC)

With rice done in the microwave rice cooker, and carrots and beans.

This was very very yummy, not at all spicy but lovely flavours. dd3 (big curry fan) didn't like it???!! though.

I love how clean it is cooking in the thermomix. So quick to prepare everything and rather than having hundreds of bowls and pots and blenders and stuff to clean all there is is the thermomix (and in this case one bowl to reserve the toasted fennel and cumin seeds) I have time to put the raw ingredients back where they belong whilst the thermomix is doing the next bit and then set it to cook for 20 mins and go off and do something else.

Sun 18th July - lemonade

A very quiet day for the thermomix today as we've been out a lot and also using up leftovers but did make lovely lemonade (edc recipe, bit less sugar). Takes seconds. Had leftover chinese takeaway for lunch and was thirsty afterwards so this was perfect.

Out for dinner though so missed out on TMX stroganoff which was the plan.