Thursday 8th September - porridge, pasta, butter, mayo, salad, dressing

Breakfast - porridge

Made: butter (Quirky Jo's recipe as usual)

pasta (heat water, add pasta, cook 14 mins - as per the pasta I was cooking recipe) for pasta salad.

mayo - usual recipe, so easy and successful as usual.

carrot, celery, capsicum - chopped for a salad and some in the pasta salad.

dressing for pasta salad (mayo, extra white wine vinegar, mustard, cream cheese)

So quite a lot of tmx uses today. Lunch and dinner were bought rolls and cold meats etc to go with the salads.

Tuesday 12th July - mayonnaise, wonton soup

Made mayonnaise.

Dinner - wonton soup, wontons and dipping sauce.

Made wonton mixture - chopped garlic and ginger, minced chicken and some bacon fat, added sesame oil, oyster sauce, fish sauce (think that was it)

Soup - chopped ginger, garlic and deseeded chili, added duck stock, cooked 10 mins, added finely sliced carrot, celery, bok choy and cooked 10 mins. Meanwhile cooked the wontons in a saucepan.

And made a dipping sauce - soy sauce, sweet chili sauce, lemon juice (think there was something else?)

Put two of the wontons in a bowl and poured the soup over. The rest we ate with dipping sauce.

This was just the best dinner. These wontons were perfect and everyone loved them. (I think dd1 and dd2 having 11 each said something, lol.

Tuesday 10th May - mayonnaise, rice, piri piri sauce, vegetables

Today I made some mayonnaise - dh wanted some to go with tuna for his lunches, I'm sure dd2 will be pleased to know I made a batch too.

Lunch - rice.

Dinner - we had Jamie Oliver's piri piri chicken (30 min meals book) with rice and steamed veg.

Made the piri piri sauce in the tmx (using homemade sweet paprika too) and then cooked the rice and vegetables in the tmx. (the chicken was pan fried and then oven baked).

This was really yummy and dd2 really loved the sauce.

Sunday 27th February - pancakes, stock, soup, banana bread, fruit balls, marinade, mayo, carrot salad, fried rice

Breakfast - pancakes

Lunch - made chicken stock and then a soup using the stock, soup mix (cooked for 30 mins), mixed vegies (cooked for 15mins) and some pepper.

Afternoon made banana bread (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2962.0)

Once again a massive hit.

Dried fruit balls for this weeks lunch boxes:

Marinade for tonight's dinner (stir fried chicken) - ginger, garlic, chili, soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil.

Then made a batch of mayonnaise.

Also made a quick carrot salad for lunch tomorrow (hate to waste the mayo left in the bowl so leave a bit in and then chop a carrot and/or other veg).

Dinner - we had stir fried chicken, cashews and brocolli (using the marinade above) made on the stove top whilst the Thermomix made fried rice (garlic rice, with veg steamed in the varoma for 10 mins and eggs added to the varoma in the last 5 mins).

Was really pleased with this meal. Very quick to make and the marinated chicken was divine!

Friday 14th January - mayonnaise, coleslaw, guacamole

Made mayonnaise - so happy with the recipe I'm using now (from the forum) 1 egg - 2 mins 37°, then programme 5 mins 37° and add the 250ml of grapeseed oil, at the end add vinegar/lemon/mustard etc to taste, can chop garlic at the beginning as well. Made it quite a few times now with no fails!

Then as usual a coleslaw without cleaning the bowl.

Dinner was dd1's choice of nachos and made guacamole to go with them in the TMX.

Dinners this week have been different to usual and missing my TMX meals, will have to make up for it next week.

Thursday 30th December - smoothie, mayonnaise, coleslaw, potato salad, chicken and brown rice soup, tortillas, stock

Breakfast - smoothie.

Then made

• garlic mayonnaise
• without cleaning the bowl some coleslaw
• steamed potatoes and eggs for potato salad

To go with chicken and salad for lunch.

Dinner - QuirkyJo's Creamy Chicken and brown rice soup

And some of TrudyO's Tortilla's.

(with leftovers from lunch)

And some stock with today's chicken carcass.

Wednesday 22nd December - mayonnaise, coleslaw, tortillas, strawberry jam

Morning - garlic mayonnaise (using the whole egg, then oil then flavouring recipe from the forum)

Then made some coleslaw to use up the mayo in the bowl.

Lunch - tortilla's.

Afternoon - strawberry jam.

Sure there was another use in there but dinner was sushi (oooh could have done the sushi rice in the tmx, used the rice cooker as always) and breakfast was eggs so not sure what else.

OK not TMX but also dehydrated a load of oregano - it's gone manic with all this rain!

Friday 3rd December - smoothie, mayonnaise

Breakfast - smoothie.

Also made some mayonnaise.

Had to have an early dinner as had to get back to school for dd's band soiree and as it was hot ended up just having salad/wraps/sandwiches rather than planned dinner.

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.

Wed 13th October - dairy free chocolate cake, mayonnaise, butter icing

Made this cake http://www.cacaoweb.net/easy-chocolate-cake.html but with rice almond milk for a dairy free alternative. For my daughter, Amelia's, birthday today.

Then made Judy Dawn's magic mayonnaise (on the thermomix forum) - still not what I'm looking for so onewards with my mayo quest. But it was very easy - but too much lemon, my lemon's must have been very strong.

This afternoon had a great idea on the Great Dairy free cake quest for Amelia's party on the weekend. (one of her friends is dairy free).

The cake today was nice but really struggling with a nice dairy free icing. So cut out a flower shaped piece of today's cake and have frozen it for her friend for Sunday and

made Butter Cream Icing (this recipe from faffa 70 in this thread http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4154.0)

125g Butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
185g Icing Sugar
2 tablespoons milk

to ice the rest of the cake.

And will make a regular cake for the rest of the party guests on the weekend.

Thursday 7th October - mayonnaise, coleslaw, Pork with Beer Casserole

Tried to make mayonaisse but forgot to put the butterfly in!!! (saw it sitting next to the machine half way through) so it didn't work properly but made coleslaw (cabbage, carrot, red capsicum, celery, apple) and used it with that.

Dinner made -

Pork with Beer Casserole

Ingredients:

1 clove garlic

1 onion

1 small chili

300-500g meat

3 tablespoons plain flour

20g olive oil

Vegetables (I used 1 red capsicum, 2 sticks celery, handful green beans, 2 carrots)

Tin of chopped tomatoes

1 bottle of beer

2 tbsp worcester sauce

1 tbsp mixed herbs (dried or you could use fresh and put them in at the beginning, I was making this up as I went and hadn't put any in earlier so used dried)

2 bay leaves

Chop garlic, onion, chili - speed 5 - 5 sec

Add meat and flour

Add oil and saute 2min 100degrees, reverse, speed soft

Add vegetables, tin of tomatoes, worcester sauce, mixed herbs, bay leaves and beer.

Cook 60 mins, 100 degrees, reverse, speed soft.

The photo is after most was served up, lol, I forgot to take one before everyone dived in.

You could use beef or any meat you wanted, I just had pork out. And any vegetables you choose.

I served it with rice.

Everyone loved this one and had seconds! A first as the kids are usually not that into casseroles.