21st/22nd October - porridge, stock, minestrone soup, boiled eggs, strawberry jam, lemon chicken and noodles.

Friday 21st -

Breakfast - porridge

Then made chicken stock.

Dinner made Minestrone soup (forum recipe, linked previously on here) at dd1's request. It's also dh's favourite.

Saturday 22nd

Breakfast - boiled eggs

Made strawberry jam. (pretty much edc recipe with 5 mins on varoma at the end and a little jamsetta)

Dinner made a lemon chicken and noodle dish. Usually I prefer to stir fry on the stovetop but was flat out so chopped garlic and onion and sauteed, added chicken and sauteed, added juice of 2 lemons, white wine, water, chinese five spice, mushrooms, broccoli, celery, cooked 7 mins, added noodles (shelf fresh singapore style) and cooked 3 mins. (all the cooking on reverse 100)

I love how the tmx frees you up to do other things during the cooking.

Tues/Wed 27/8th September - porridge, chicken in yoghurt

Being school holidays we've been flat out, sorry for not keeping up to date, not that we've made anything exciting.

Tuesday - porridge for breakfast, then that was it as was out all day and had leftovers for dinner.

Wednesday - porridge for breakfast. Dinner - chicken in yoghurt (indian book), though didn't have enough yoghurt, so used some milk. Still a family favourite. Added vegetables whilst cooking it as well.

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.

Tuesday 6th September - chicken kiev

Made chicken kiev's for dinner, so the bread crumbs, garlic butter and chicken mixture all made in the tmx. (forum recipe). Yum as always!

Monday/Tuesday August 29/30th - porridge, pork in beer

Monday was just porridge I think.

Tuesday was dinner - pork in beer casserole (recipe on here, though this time I just popped the veg in for the last 25 mins - don't imagine I cooked it for the whole hour like I wrote in the recipe; the recipe is also on the forum.

Wednesday 24th August - porridge, gourmet beef

Breakfast - porridge

Dinner - Robyn's gourmet beef from the forum with carrots and mushrooms. Yum as always!!!

Wednesday 17th August - porridge, chicken and mushrooms in white sauce

Breakfast - porridge

Dinner - Made super quick chicken and mushrooms in white sauce to go with pasta, have cooked this a few times and probably explained better but basically white sauce (1/2 amount, only cook 5 mins) then added sliced mushrooms, shredded cooked chicken and pepper and cook for another 5 mins (but on reverse, speed1) Such a quick and easy dinner, super tasty. dd1 particularly loved tonights and had lots of seconds and has asked for the leftovers for morning tea at school tomorrow and she has never taken in a hot meal to school.

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.

Sunday 10th July - butter, duck and noodles in oyster sauce, duck stock, cookies, pizza dough, pizza sauces

Made spreadable butter. Using Quirky Jo's recipe. (ETA the link to her blog as couldn't get on last night spreadable butter )

I didn't make the butter as cream is so expensive here (anyone know of a reasonable cream supplier?) even though I loooooove homemade butter so much, but followed her same amount of oil and water recipe.

Used 100g of butter, 100g of grapeseed oil, 100g of water. Worked great. Checked it this evening and have lovely spreadable and great tasting butter in the fridge. Been so fed up with normal butter as even left at room temperature it's so cold at the moment it's completely solid. Summer is fine as I have a lovely butter crock that keeps it firm but winter is a pain.

Lunch was duck and noodle in oyster sauce.

chopped garlic and ginger, sauted, added veg (carrots, beans, hard ends of bok choy and mushrooms), oyster sauce, chicken stock, cooked 5 mins. Added cooked duck (leftovers from last nights roast duck) and the leafy bits of the bok choy, a little cornflour paste (after checking the consistency), noodles (singapore style, soaked for 2 mins in hot water) and cooked another 5 mins. Yum!!!!!

Then made some duck stock using the carcass.

Made Cookies using this http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1278.0

$250 cookie recipe. Really yummy. Look and taste better than the photo, lol.

Dinner was pizza. Made the dough in the tmx.

Made sauces - a garlic, butter, rosemary and little olive oil sauce.

This is my kids favourite pizza, lol. How easy is that, though not very healthy!

And a tomato sauce - garlic, tin of tomatoes to puree, herbs (rosemary, oregano, thyme, parsley), little brown sugar.

A yummy food day.

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).

Wednesday 6th July - porridge, honey mustard chicken

Breakfast - porridge

Dinner - honey mustard chicken - http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=5129.0

Used wine instead of water and added mushrooms with 10 mins to go, oh and added some garlic with the onion (and served with cauliflower and rice).

Still love this. Really tasty.

Monday 4th July - savoury mince, pizza

Dinner - A bit of a deviation from the menu plan.

Had mince and was going to do lasagne, this became a pasta bake, that then became bolognaise pizza (so will have rethink the week, lol as pizza was also on the list for later in the week).

YUM!! Made pizza dough and then a slightly spicy mince and lots of vegies sauce in the TMX, popped the sauce onto the bases, with a few bits of leftover pepperoni and topped with mozzarella.

Loads of leftover sauce so will do a bake tomorrow night.

Really impressed by this as such a quick and easy pizza and could use leftover mince sauce and pita breads for a virtually instant dinner (we have to do some pretty quick meals during the week due to lots of afternoon activities)

Tuesday May 24 - 4 berry porridge, chicken tempra

Breakfast - 4 berry porridge. Once again a thankyou to Quirky Jo for the idea of flavouring the porridge, add frozen 4 berry mix this morning, another yummy porridge alternative.

Dinner - Babi Tempra from the Asian cookbook. Pork with lime and soy.
But I made it with chicken thighs as suggested and only cooked for 30 mins.
Was really nice. I also added some veg 15 mins (next time will do 10 mins, not sure why I put them in early, we like our veg crispy, though wasn't overcooked at all) before the end. All cooked great.
A lovely slightly sweet taste the kids loved. Surprisingly loads of sauce which you could even thicken.
On the will make again list. We all love lime.

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.

Wednesday 27th April - beef stroganoff

Dinner - beef stroganoff. Yum, lovely to have a TMX meal again.

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

Saturday 12th February - porridge, cream of celery soup, gingerbread, Five spice pork with rice and vegetables

Breakfast - porridge.

Lunch - Cream of celery soup. (chicken stock, potato, celery, mixed herbs, finished with some cream.)

A wet day today so made gingerbread with the girls.

Here they are decorating them (they also cut out all the shapes).

And the finished products (dd1's, dd3's and dd2's)

Dinner - Five Spice Pork with Rice and Vegetables.

Adapted from an Intellisteam recipe.

Ingredients:

700g pork fillet, sliced

2 tbsp toasted sesame oil

1 tsp Chinese 5-spice powder

1 cup of rice (or amount required)

Vegetables:

2 large carrots

1 head of broccoli, 1/2 a stork of broccoli

bunch of bok choy

1/2 red capsicum

8 mushrooms

Sauce:

4 tbsp sweet chilli sauce

1 tsp sesame oil

Directions:

1. Toss sliced pork fillet in sesame oil and 5-spice powder. Leave to marinate for a few minutes.

2. Place into 2-3 foil parcels in bottom tray of varoma.

3. Place 800mls water in bowl and cook on varoma temp for 15 mins.

4. Whilst cooking place rice in basket and rinse and prepare vegetables. Keep the hard veg eg carrots, brocolli stalk, bok choy stalk separate. Place all soft vegetables on the top varoma tray.

5. Add the rice in the basket to the bowl and hard vegetables to the bottom varoma tray and cook for 8 minutes, add top varoma tray and cook for a further 8 mins.

6. Place in thermoserver.

7. Sauce – pop juices from the pork parcels in the bowl, add 4 tbsp of sweet chilli sauce, 1 tsp of sesame oil and cook for 3 minutes, 100° speed 2.

8. Add sauce to dish and serve.

Sunday 6th February - porridge, Beef Madras

Breakfast - porridge.

Dinner - Beef Madras (the Curtis Stone translation I did a few months ago).

Once again ever so yummy.

Tuesday 1 February - porridge, Persian Beef and Lime Stew

Breakfast - porridge

Dinner - Persian Beef and Lime Stew from MOTM (in the soup section! I had this on my list for weeks and then went to cook it and took me forever to find the recipe).

This was a 5/5 from all of us. dd3 in particular had 2nds and scraped her plate clean.

I didn't have the lemon peel so used lime zest.

dd2 and I don't like mint so use basil and parsley (also cooked with some as missed the set aside bit, lol).

Used green lentils instead of the split yellow peas.

I also added some new potatoes. And some green capsicum for the last 6 mins.

This had a really lovely flavour and despite it being such a hot day and thinking this was a bad idea with the lime it was great.

Saturday 29th January - ricebubble bars, dried fruit balls, scones, whipped cream, nut butter, mongolian beef

Quite a work out for the Thermomix today and didn't even use it for breakfast (scrambled eggs and toast) or lunch (salads and wraps).

Made snacks for the kids for school (yah school goes back on Monday!!!! I can't wait to get back into dyeing and everything else for my store. So excited about some me time, doing things I love and Lara being at preschool two days so I can!!!!! Also lots of house sorting - read toy throwing out - planned. There is a toy box that is so rarely opened that I'm sure most of what is in it can go and I can put all of Lara's play kitchen stuff in it, but I know if I open it with the kids around they will all claim that every toy is the best and has to be kept.)

The unhealthy ones -Marshmallow Rice bubble Bars

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=528.msg14802#msg14802

These are very sticky so unless they set even more I don't think I'll put them in their lunch boxes they can have them as an after school snack. But they certainly loved them!!

Tip - when I make the ltm's I put them in a shallow tray lined with baking paper, then put another piece of baking paper on top for squishing them down. This gives a good dense bar that holds together. Refridgerate for a few hours until set and then place on a chopping board (no need to remove the bottom piece of paper - it's easy to move on the paper, and cut to size.)

And the healthy ones - Dried Fruit Balls

Working to this 'recipe' I'd worked out in the Apricot Ball thread http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=247.msg57826#msg57826 - using dried apricots, couple of dates and raisins, and oats, coconut, sesame seeds and milk powder for the dry ingredients.

After lunch made scones using Nay Nay's Family recipe

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2344.0

Really lovely light and yummy scones. Very impressed.

Also whipped the cream to go on them (and the jam was tmx jam as well)

Made nut butter from Quirky Jo's blog

http://quirkycooking.blogspot.com/2010/09/nut-butter.html

Didn't really follow quantities (and made less than her recipe as wanted to see how it came out and if it will be eaten) just put in handfuls of each of the nuts (raw macadamias, raw almonds, roasted cashews) and a teaspoon of honey and blitzed, then added some rice bran oil until the right consistency.

So impressed by this!!!! Been meaning to make some for ages as dh loves peanut butter but never got round to it. Super quick and easy.

I can't eat peanut butter (allergies) but have actually been craving it lately and funnily was looking at a sate recipe the other day. This tasted just what I think peanut butter tastes like (dd1 thought it tasted more like cashews).

Dinner was Mongolian Beef.

So pretty much the Mongolian Lamb recipe in MOTM. But saute garlic and onions 5 mins. Add 1/2 a MC of water to the initial ingredients and cook for 15 mins. Added green capsicum and green beans (so a green rather than red mongolian, lol) and cooked a further 8 mins (100°, reverse, spd 1) This is still a favourite.