Sunday 18th September - boiled eggs, butter, garlic and herb dip, choc icecream

Breakfast - boiled eggs (edc)

Made butter (as usual Quirky Jo's recipe)

Made a garlic and herb dip (similar to edc) to take to a party.

Made a chocolate ice cream mixture, to make up in the ice cream maker (300ml cream, 300ml milk, 1/3 cup of sugar, chopped chocolate, cooked 10mins 50 degrees speed 3)

Yum, I love chocolate icecream!!

Friday 15th July - jam, mince, stock, gravy, ice cream, veg

Made a few things today, not sure if I can remember them all.

Made strawberry jam.

Made savoury mince - this was used on wraps for lunch (burrito's sort of) and also leftovers for tomorrow. It's my birthday so not planning on doing any cooking.

Made chicken stock.

Made gravy for chicken and mushroom pot pie for dinner (whilst browning mushrooms in a frying pan, then added the sauce and chicken to the mushrooms ready to go in the pies).

Made mixture for strawberry icecream.

Steamed veg for dinner.

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.

Friday 4th February - smoothie, ice cream, chicken, spinach and mushroom curry

Breakfast - smoothie.

Dinner - Chicken, spinach and mushroom curry.

I wanted dinner to have all the flavours of a good homemade curry but without much spice as it's still soooo hot here and wanted something light - but not salad again.

Decided as the TMX doesn't produce much kitchen heat unlike stove top or oven cooking I'd do a curry.

Recipe:

2 tsp coriander seeds

2 tsp cumin seeds

1 tsp cloves

Grind 30 sec spd 6

Add 30 g oil and saute 5 mins 100° sp 1

Add 500g diced chicken, 1 tbsp tikka paste, 200g yoghurt

Cook 14 mins 100° reverse sp 1

Add mushrooms cook 2 mins

Add spinach cook 4 mins

The sauce was quite runny so maybe would add a little flour next time - though it was fine as it was with rice to mop it up.

The girls and I enjoyed it (except dd3 who was feeling really terrible - hoping just heat and tiredness and didn't really eat - which as curry with chicken and mushrooms are her favourites) , a lovely light curry - would be a good one for kids. I guess pretty similar to a chicken in yoghurt recipe.

Dessert was JulieO's chocolate icecream (from the forum, mmmmmm)

Thursday 20th January - smoothie, stock, udon soup, yorkshire puddings, quick strawberry 'icecream'

Breakfast - smoothie

Dinner - Made stock from lunches chicken carcass. And then made an udon soup with it.

chopped garlic, ginger, chili, added stock, little soy sauce, frozen peas, corn and carrot mix, cooked for 15 mins 100° reverse speed 1, adding a packet of udon noodles 3 mins before the end.

This was the planned dinner with some bread from yesterday.

But I got Jamie Oliver's 30 min meals in the post today and was reading through and his super quick and easy yorkshire pudding started a craving.

So dinner became as dd1 said 'a multicultural meal' as the soup was served with Yorkies, lol.

They were very yum though!! Kids had 3 each and I only managed 2!

Dessert made Jamie's 'Berry Icecream' (1/2 portion)

250g frozen berries (I used strawberries)

250g yoghurt

2 tablespoons of honey

All mixed together

This was nice and healthy though next time I would do a bit more on the fruit and less on the yoghurt as it was still a bit tangy/sour. But am wondering if this batch of strawberries aren't quite as full of flavour as thought that with my smoothie this morning as well.

One thing he'd mentioned was putting the bowls/cups in the freezer and think that would be a great idea for this or Strawberry Dream (edc) etc as it was fine in the girls plastic ikea bowls but in my bowl I've noticed it starts to melt around the edges as soon as it touches the bowl.

Friday 7th January - porridge, raw ranch dressing, coleslaw, ltm, choc icecream, honey soy drumettes and veg

Breakfast - porridge

Lunch - made raw ranch dressing and coleslaw

Raw Ranch dressing

1 cup soaked raw cashews

¾ cup water

2 tbsp lemon juice

½ tsp garlic powder

parsley and basil (small handful)

pinch of salt

(original recipe had onion powder, basil and dill)

Process the cashews, water, lemon juice, garlic powder, onion powder and salt until smooth and creamy - 1 minute speed 6-7.

Add basil and parsley and pulse 3 times to chop and mix.

Adapted from Raw Food Made Easy by Jennifer Cornbleet.

In the afternooon made:

LTM's - run out of kids snack stuff!

chocolate icecream

using this http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2066.0 Egg free recipe with condensed milk. I did 300ml milk/300ml cream as find the full cream icecreams a bit rich.

Dinner - honey soy drumettes and varoma veg with rice

Still a favourite of everyone's!!

Saturday 13th November - mayonnaise, salad, shortbread, bread, choc icecream, tortilla, garlic butter, vegie soup

Made mayonnaise - as per the thread on the forum, so as per the edc but using vinegar and heating to 37°. A real success, now I can't wait to experiment with different flavours over the summer.


carrot and cabbage salad - Without rinsing from the mayo I made a carrot and cabbage salad to go with lunch.

dd1 made shortbread. Finally she is able to close the TMX lid so hopefully plenty more cooking to come from her.


Made a loaf of bread.

Made Julie O's chocolate ice cream from the forum http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2085.0. OMG this is so rich and delicious. So easy to make real chocolate ice cream with the TMX to melt the chocolate and mix the ingredients. I used my ice cream maker to churn it.


Dinner. Garlic bread tortilla's and vegie soup. (this was a slightly chunky soup which you can't see in the photo)

Made up a batch of tortilla's using Trudy Olive's recipe from the forum.
Made garlic butter (garlic, parsley and butter, mixed together, at 37 ° as the butter was from the fridge.
Whilst the girls divided up the tortilla dough I made a soup.
Chopped garlic, parsley and oregano. Added the chicken stock I made yesterday, added carrot, celery, spring onion and chopped. Added cubed potato and peas (that dd3 was podding), a little soy sauce, a little tobasco, pepper. Cooked 20 mins 100° sp 1

Cooked the tortilla's and for the ones for dinner spread some garlic butter on them and cooked for a few minutes in the oven till brown and crispy.
Yum, this was such a lovely dinner, the soup was nice and light (it was hot today) and the garlic tortilla's really tasty.
We had some of the chocolate ice cream for dessert - did I mention how yummy this was, lol.

Saturday 31st July - ice cream

Well the yoghurt was a success - the warmer environment worked.

I also made vanilla choc chip ice cream. Froze the milk and cream in icecube trays and blended up with sugar and vanilla, adding the choc chips 10 sec before the end.

Whilst it's fine I prefer icecream made in my ice cream maker. There was a bit of an icy edge to the ice cream from freezing the ingredients.

Did love the choc chips slightly blended and will chop them before adding next time I make choc chip icecream but as I expected I'll go back to the ice cream maker for this.

Otherwise a quiet day for the thermomix though the girls did have leftover white sauce and previously grated parmesan on their pasta and veg for dinner.