Saturday 19th November

Breakfast - boiled eggs, still loving how easy boiled eggs are with still never a broken one, and no need to worry about timing.

Afternoon - made orange and pineapple juice, with lots of ice as it was hot and we'd been out.

Dinner - made a bbq marinade (garlic, little soy, worcester sauce, tomato sauce, - sure there was something else) to marinate chicken for dinner.

Sunday 24th July - pancakes, curry powder, rice, naan, juice

Breakfast - pancakes

Dinner made this Beef Curry recipe. So made the curry powder in the tmx and then slow cooked the curry on the stovetop.

Meanwhile made an orange, mandarin and pineapple juice, yum!

To go with the curry I made naan bread (using the cumin and onion naan recipe in the Indian book) and also rice in the tmx.

The naan came out brilliantly, everyone was so impressed, restaurant quality.

Really loved the curry recipe, a great blend of flavours, absolutely packed with spices but not too spicy. Being slowcooked over a couple of hours it was so so so tender.

I used yoghurt instead of the coconut cream. Will definitely make this whole meal again.

Forgot to take a photo though!

Saturday 9th July - juice, stock, gravy

Made juice.

Dinner we had roast duck, I made some chicken stock and from some of that made the gravy.

Yum, we haven't had duck in such a long time, it's an absolute favourite of mine but always seems so expensive.

Friday 1st July - porridge, orange juice

Breakfast - porridge.

Afternoon - orange juice.

Sunday 15th May - juice, apricot jam, pizza dough and sauces

Breakfast - juice

Made apricot jam.

Dinner - pizza - made the pizza dough and the sauces (garlic butter, and a tomato base) in the Thermomix.

Thursday 12th, Friday 13th May - porridge, juice, cheese, stock, Cauliflower Soup

Blogger has been down for posting so here is the last couple of days posts

Thursday 12th May

Breakfast - porridge and orange and mandarin juice

Lunch - I went to a friend's Thermomix demo (and she is buying one yah!!!) so not made in my tmx but had a lovely sorbet with orange, lemon, lime, and a bit of pineapple, beetroot salad, mushroom risotto, rolls, hummus and vanilla custard (made with goat's milk)

For dinner we had burrito's. Grated the cheese in the tmx. The mince mixture was from the freezer but had previously been made in the tmx.

Friday 13th May

Made liquid chicken stock in the morning for Dinner - cauliflower soup.

Milled coriander, cumin, and chili flakes, then added garlic and onion and chopped, then sauted, then added stock, cauliflower and cooked 15 mins, added flour and cooked 5 mins. Then blitzed for 1 minute.

It thickened up nicely in the thermoserver but I would add a potato if eating straight away.

All three girls had 3 servings and really loved this soup. It was really creamy and lovely flavours (dd1 picked the indian spices) and didn't need any extra cream.

Sunday 8th May - juice, shortbread, muffins, yorkies, gravy

Happy Mother's Day to those that are celebrating today. Hope you were spoilt!

Breakfast - orange and mandarin juice (to go with mother's day bacon and eggs).

This morning made (well dh helped dd1) shortbread. Then some cheese and zucchini muffins for lunchboxes this week.

Dinner was roast lamb - yorkshire pudding batter and gravy made in the tmx.

Thurs 21 October - juice, bread crumbs, dahl

Thursday 21st October

Breakfast - orange and mandarin juice.

Dinner - I made tomato and lentil dahl (edc) and also Parmesan crumbed aubergine.
I fell in love with this recipe http://www.masterchef.com.au/falsomagro-with-crumbed-eggplant-and-tomato-sauce.htm on Junior Masterchef.

I created the crumb using:
1 clove of garlic
small handful of parsley
80g of breadcrumbs (broken up)
40g of parmesan (in cubes)

Added parmesan to TMX and chopped 6 sec spd 8
Added garlic, bread and parsley - chopped 5 sec spd 7

Sliced the eggplant and cut in half.
Then coated the eggplant in flour, egg and the above breadcrumbs and fried for a 2 mins each side.

They were nice but not as good as I'd hoped, didn't feel the parmesan flavour came through enough with that ratio.

Sunday 10th of the 10th - juice, nutty milo slice, shortbread, soup, pasta

Breakfast - Juice - apple, pear and orange.

Kids are back to school tomorrow so made the Nutty Milo Slice

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4169.0

Only made a half recipe amount and that still made tonnes!! I wrote the recipe out with the amount of each thing e.g 100g nuts, 100g seeds, and as I was using slightly different ones to those in the recipe I just made them up to that amount.

and dd1 made shortbread, so that's the snacks for the week done.

Made - cabbage and potato soup for lunch (with leftovers for dd2 for school tomorrow).

And dinner the girls had creamy tomato and salami pasta.

Saturday 7th August - juice, pasta sauce, goulash

Breakfast - orange and kiwi juice

Dinner - made tomato pasta sauce for the girls. dh later made the goulash.

Monday 2nd August - juice, bread, pasta

apple and kiwi juice

bread - with wheat and black chia

Dinner - by popular request the creamy salami pasta from the EDC. This is an absolute favourite of the girls and can see it being a regular on the menu (as it already is, lol).

Tuesday 27th July - juice

Been a busy day and not been at home much but the Thermomix still made us a lovely orange and kiwi fruit juice.

Sat 24th July - juice, tartare sauce, batter

Saturday 24th July

Breakfast - juice - orange and apple

Dinner - we had homemade fish and chips (dh's once a year use of his fryer, lol). The thermomix made:

Tartare sauce (EDC) - so quick and easier than going to the shops for some.

Batter - http://www.fishex.com/recipes/batters/all-purpose-batter.html put all the ingredients in and blended for 20 sec on speed 4.

The fish was battered and then crumbed.

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Mon 19th July - rolls, juice, stroganoff, rice

Made bread rolls for lunch

Juice for afternoon tea - orange, mandarin and apple.

For dinner the EDC stroganoff again. Added the worcester sauce and garlic as per last weeks tweaks, also had to substitute the sour cream for yoghurt as we had run out of sour cream.

Yum again!

Dessert was leftover strawberry sorbet from the other night.

And then dh came home and had leftover stroganoff and cooked the rice in the thermomix.

Very easy, though the tupperware microwave rice cooker is also very easy, ever so slightly less washing up.

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.

Fri 16th July - juice, chicken seasoning paste, sorbet

Juice with breakfast - 2 oranges, mandarin and apple

Later I made a paste of garlic, deseeded green chili, spring onion, salt and pepper, paprika and oil - this is to go on the chicken strips that were crumbed and baked for dinner (along with wedges and veg).

And because it's my birthday I made strawberry sorbet for dessert - yum yum yum!

Mon 12th July - juice, cookies, stroganoff

Monday 12th July

Breakfast - juice - orange, mandarin and celery.

Afternoon - the girls made cookies. Used this basic cookie dough

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=3773.0 and they rolled them out and decorated with choc chips. Kept them occupied for ages, lol.

Very quick and easy to make the dough, and so much less mess than using a food processor.

Dinner - beef stroganoff.

I did this as per the EDC recipe but added

1. Garlic - 2 cloves, dropped these onto the blades at speed 7 at the beginning before adding the onion.

2. Added 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce and thyme

3. I also added carrot - due to dd2's two least favourite vegetables being mushrooms and onions.

I served it with rice (I cooked this separately in the Tupperware rice cooker in the microwave (I love this) so it was all ready at the same time and so quick.)

Really really loved this. So easy, super easy to clean, really tasty. Will definitely make it again.

Day 2 - 9 July - juice, salad, cheese, stock, hot chocolate

Day 2 - Friday 9th

Had lots of fun with the Thermomix today and feel much more confident that I know what I'm doing with it.

Breakfast

Orange and mandarin juice - really easy, so much better than using the juice extractor.

Porridge - just did the same quantities as I'd normally do the quick oats in the microwave and then cooked per the EDC instructions.

Lunch

Coleslaw type salad with - cabbage, carrot, apple, celery, green capsicum and mayonnaise. (so done like the EDC coleslaw but with the added vegies)

This is soooo much easier than chopping everything by hand, a real time saver. The older girls love salads and coleslaws so can imagine doing lots of these.

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Grated cheddar - dd1 loves the way the Thermomix crumbs cheese and has been eating all the parmesan from the demo last week so she was very happy with this. I like the cheese like this to go in the salad but will also grate cheese normally for other things.

Others

Bron's vegie stock concentrate

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=836.0

Ended up with loads of this! Should last us ages.

So much cheaper than buying decent stock and was easy to do.

Hot chocolate (was having a real chocolate craving but didn't want to make a cake or anything) - very yummy!

Nice and easy, throw it all in and come back when it beeps. A hit with the older two and me. (dd3 doesn't like milk).

So the Thermomix has had a good work out today.

I've been happy with everything.