26th September 2014

I'm going to try to post more often. I think it's really interesting to see how the Thermomix has settled into life here a few years down the track.
I no longer feel I have to use it every day but it's a much loved part of the kitchen.

The last few days the Thermomix has helped make:

Sunday - being a Sunday and at home I made a few staples.

Chicken stock. Still such a regular in our house as we love soup (and other things made with quality stock). I also find store bought stock too salty. (eldest loves it, lol).
So chicken bones, onion, garlic, celery, peppercorns, bay leaf, (maybe a carrot? but don't think so) all in the basket, water in the bowl.
Cooked for 45 mins .

Pancakes for breakfast. Basically use the crepe recipe in the EDC but I make 1.5 + times the mixture, we go through a lot of pancakes and any leftovers go into school lunches.

Strawberry jam and banana muffins. Jam I use 500g strawberries, a lemon (peeled and some of the rind added), 200g sugar and 1/2 a packet of jamsetta.

Monday 25th I made chicken and sweetcorn soup using the stock made on Sunday. With garlic, chili, leftover chicken and a tin of creamed corn. Such a simple and quick soup.  

And today I made this caramel slice. Reading SFI's whilst on the treadmill at the gym this morning and saw this recipe. So simple. Packet of milk arrowroot biscuits, 295g tin of sweetened condensed milk, 125 g butter and choc chips. 

Pop the butter in the tmx and cook at 50 degrees for 1 min till melted, add the biscuits and whizz at speed 9 till crumbed, add condensed milk and mix. Then added some dark chocolate drops and mixed with the spatula and popped into a lined slice tray. Bake 45 mins, 150 degrees. Very sweet and rich and yummy!!!

Sunday 13th November - pancake mix, butter, stock, cream of chicken and mushroom soup, gravy

Breakfast - pancake mix.

Lunch - chicken stock, then cream of chicken and mushroom soup (so garlic, herbs, stock, chili flakes, heated, added mushrooms and cooked 10 mins, blitzed, added milk and cream and cooked chicken and mixed and heated for 2 mins on reverse.)

Made spreadable butter (usual recipe)

Dinner - roast, made gravy in the tmx.

23rd October

Breakfast - pancakes

Dinner - gravy to go with roast.

Fri /Sat 7/8th October - porridge, pasta sauce, pancakes, enchilada's, yellow rice

Friday - breakfast - porridge

Dinner for the kids - made a tomato, mushroom and spinach pasta sauce in the Thermomix.

Saturday - breakfast - pancakes

Dinner - made JulieO's Enchilada's http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1645.0

Wow this is so tasty!!!! Will def do again.

Whilst the enchilada's were baking I also made Turmeric rice in the thermomix.

Saturday 1st October - pancakes, chicken stock, rice

Breakfast - pancake batter (edc)

Made - chicken stock (as always, lol)

And made rice to go with leftovers for lunch.

Dinner was bbq (so dh can get a fix with his new bbq)

Sunday 7th August - pancakes, chicken and sweetcorn soup, truffles, pizza dough, sauces, butter

Quite a lot of tmx cooking today.

Breakfast was pancakes with the batter made in the tmx.

Lunch was chicken and sweetcorn soup - the stock was made in the tmx yesterday, then grated ginger and garlic, added, stock, tin of creamed corn and cooked 10 mins, then added a small tin of sweetcorn kernals, shredded cooked chicken and pepper and cooked another 10 mins.

Really yummy, super quick and easy soup.

Made ganache for truffles.

Dinner was pizza.

Made two lots of pizza dough (dinner tonight and also for calzones for school/work lunches)

Then made a tomato sauce (garlic, herbs, tin of tomatoes)

Also made a garlic butter sauce (garlic, herbs, butter, olive oil) as the kids love a garlic pizza to start with.

Also made a lot of spreadable butter for the fridge (see recipe earlier as per Quirky Jo - but 100g butter, 100g rice bran oil, 100g filtered water, blended.)

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!

Sunday 3rd July - pancakes, potatoes and veg

Breakfast - pancakes

Dinner - Had pan fried veal with lemon sauce (this is one of my all time favourites and haven't had it in years!!! Everyone loved it so will be a regular), cooked baby potatoes and steamed veg (carrots, cauliflower and broccoli) in the tmx.

Oh and can anyone come up with a method of working out what the 4 year olds favourite veg is - tonight it was broccoli but last week she didn't like it!!

Saturday 11th June - pancakes, yorkies, gravy

Breakfast - pancakes

Dinner - roast so did Yorkshire Pudding batter and gravy.

Saturday 21st May - pancakes, chicken slice, cheese and zucchini muffins beef curry

Breakfast - pancakes

Snacks - cheese and zucchini muffins. Must make some different ones but they are dd3's favourite and fairly healthy. Cooked in a mini muffin tin perfect for lunch boxes (and preschool don't even complain about them - sent her in with a bite size piece of the lemon yoghurt cake last week and it was sent home - but they feed them honey sandwiches for morning tea!!!!)

Lunch - made chicken pies/slice. Sautéed mushrooms, garlic and butter in the tmx and added to leftover chicken, a dollop of sour cream and pepper. Wrapped the mixture in puff pastry and baked. Everyone loves these.

Dinner - beef curry. Made a curry based on the rogan josh recipe in the Indian book. Was ok, tasted fine but was a bit watery and grey. Added mushrooms, capsicum and green beans for the last 15 minutes to make a complete meal with rice. (also used ground cinnamon etc not whole)

Saturday 7th May - pancakes

Breakfast - pancakes.

Out the rest of the day.

Saturday 30th April - pancakes, chicken stirfry

Breakfast - pancakes

Dinner - chicken stir fry. Using my recipe (sure it's somewhere on here) chicken and veg with noodles. A real favourite and so quick and easy.

Basically, chop garlic and ginger, add water.

pop chicken and cashews into the varoma with some sesame oil, start cooking for 20 mins.

chop veg and add to varoma and cook for last 10 mins (except the leafy bok choy/choy sum etc - just add these for the last couple of minutes) .

Meanwhile pop the noodles in the thermoserver and add boiling water to cook.

strain noodles, add chicken and veg.

With just a small amount of water (and garlic and ginger and flavour from steaming) in the bowl add soy sauce, sherry and 2 tbsp of cornflour and cook for 4 mins.

Under 30 mins with no pre prep and so tasty.

Saturday 16th April - pancakes

Breakfast - pancakes.

Then we were out.

Saturday 2nd April - pancakes, tortillas

Breakfast - pancakes

Lunch - Trudy's tortilla's - haven't had these in awhile as have been lazy on the cooking front, yum so so much better than store bought!!!

Dinner we had bbq lamb chops, finally found a meat that dd1 really loves - pity it's so expensive, lol.

Saturday 26th March - pancakes, chicken in yoghurt, steamed veg

Breakfast - pancakes.

Dinner - chicken in yoghurt (yum still a family fav) and steamed veg in the varoma (made rice in the rice cooker).

Sunday 20th March - pancakes, sweet paprika, choc custard

Breakfast was pancakes.

I then made some sweet paprika from red capsicums we'd dehydrated.

And dessert was chocolate custard.

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!

Sunday 13th February - pancakes, Vegie Rolls, gravy

Breakfast - pancakes

Made vegetable mix for Vegie 'Sausage' Rolls for tomorrow's school lunches.

Chopped garlic and herbs (basil, oregano and parsley) and 1/2 an onion

Added oil and sauted 4 mins 100° speed 1.

Added 1 small courgette

1 carrot

1 slice of bread

1 small tomato

1/4 red capsicum

And chopped speed 5, 6 seconds

Added 1 tsp paprika

1 tbsp worcester sauce

1 tbsp tomato sauce

1 egg

And mixed

Cut two puff pastry sheets in half (so four pieces) and spooned the mixture down the middle and rolled to make a sausage roll.

Dinner - roast lamb. Made the gravy in the TMX.

Saturday 8th January - pancakes, pizza

Breakfast - pancakes.

Dinner - Pizza - dough made in the TMX of course.

Friday 24th December - pancakes, dips, pate, coleslaw, bread, shortbread, Honey Mustard Chicken

Breakfast - pancakes

In the morning I made - garlic and herb dip (with chives and parsley - a really nice change to the spring onions) and hummus for Christmas Day tomorrow.

I also made the chicken liver pate in the EDC - very impressed. So cheap, quick and easy to make two big pate containers - dh is currently enjoying some!

Will be off looking at pate recipes now as it's just so professional looking.

Made coleslaw (instead of cleaning the tmx after making the garlic and herb dip).

Made a loaf of bread.

And a double lot of shortbread.

Dinner was Trudy O's Honey Mustard Chicken. Another simple, quick and very tasty Thermomix meal. Compared to most other people we would go for a little more mustard (dh thought a little hot english, I was thinking a little dijon) as we like things with a lot of flavour. Kids all enjoyed so this one is def on the menu.

I cooked red capsicum and mushrooms in with meal and served with rice and carrots.