Tues 25th October - avocado drink, chicken stock, pizza dough and sauce

Breakfast made the avocado drink, Alpukat Beating, from the night before's Junior MasterChef - http://www.masterchef.com.au/french-brioche-with-rhubarb-coulis-and-choc-orange-ricotta-and-alpukat-beating.htm

I did

1 cup of milk,

1 small avocado,

1 tablespoon caster sugar (could mill this first if you don't have any on hand)

1 tablespoon of cream

per person, mixed for 30seconds on speed 5

Topped with some ground cinnamon.

Really yum and very filling!

Next time I'd do less sugar though.

Made some chicken stock from Sunday nights roast. (usual recipe)

Dinner was pizza, so the dough (edc) and tomato sauce (chopped onion and garlic, sauteed, added tin tomatoes, tomato puree and mixed herbs and cooked) were made in the tmx.

Wed/Thur 6/7 October - porridge, pizza, rice

Wed - porridge for breakfast.

dinner - Pizza, so made garlic and herb topping (garlic, parsley, butter, olive oil) and Tomato topping (chopped garlic and herbs and small onion, sauteed 5 mins, added 2 tomatoes, tomato paste and cooked 6 mins).

Also made the pizza dough.

Thursday - Just rice. Out all day.

Tuesday 4th October - porridge, garlic and ginger, pizza

To add to yesterday's list dh made pizza dough to make calzone for work.

Today, porridge for breakfast

And we had salad and asian chicken for dinner - grated the garlic and ginger for the chicken which I pan fried.

Saturday 24th September - chicken and mushroom in white sauce, pizza - dough, garlic and tomato sauces

Lunch - chicken and mushrooms in white sauce served with pasta.

Still loving how easy this, chop and saute garlic, make the white sauce (edc but less time) add sliced mushrooms and cooked chicken and cook another 6 mins, meanwhile cooking some pasta on the stove. My old favourite but so much quicker and easier and of course perfect sauce every time.

Dinner - pizza. So pizza dough, garlic butter/oil, tomato sauce all made in the tmx.

Saturday 27th August - pizza

I personally didn't use the tmx today as did bacon and eggs for breakfast and salad and rolls for lunch and then was out, but dh made pizza for dinner for the kids.

So at least the pizza dough was made in the tmx.

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 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.

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)

Saturday 18th June - pizza dough and sauce

Dinner - pizza, made the dough and sauce in the tmx.

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.

Wednesday 16th March - pizza, vanilla pudding

Made my favourite vanilla pudding (from the vanilla slice recipe linked further back a couple of times).

Dinner was pizza, so made the dough, grated the cheeses and made the sauces in the tmx.

Sunday 20th February - pizza dough, pizza sauces, cheese

Dinner - pizza so pizza dough, grated cheese, sauces all made in the tmx.

Friday 21st January - smoothie, garlic and herb dip, pizza and toppings

Breakfast - smoothie.

Then made garlic and herb (parsley and chives) dip to take to friends.

Dinner we had pizza.

The TMX made the dough, a garlic and herb blend (for a garlic pizza with a little olive oil and a little cheese), tomato pizza sauce, grated cheese.

And for those that love my children's idiosyncrasies, here is dd3 hugging the dough. She spent the whole pizza making experience patting and cuddling the dough. Apparently she loves dough, lol. (remember these are the kids that have been known to eat flour, and she does actually quite like eating bits of raw dough.)

Tuesday 11th January - smoothie, vegie soup, pizza

Breakfast - smoothie

Lunch - vegie soup.

Chopped clove of garlic and piece of ginger. Added chicken stock and soup mix. Cooked 100° for 30 mins, added frozen veg, cooked for another 15 mins.

Dinner - pizza.

Leftover toppings and wanted something easy - sauce, mozzarella, feta, olives, tomato, oregano, capsicum and pepperoni.

Saturday 8th January - pancakes, pizza

Breakfast - pancakes.

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

Monday 22nd November - smoothie, pizza dough

Breakfast - banana smoothie.

Dinner - pizza
We like a lot of toppings tonight's had:
Tomato base, Mozarella, Capsicum, Spinach, Tomato, Mushroom, Olives, Cabanossi, Ham, Feta, Pepperoni, Pineapple



Not TMX but also started making some Christmas themed chocolates - santa and snowman ones - the girls were thrilled with Christmas themed chocs.

Sunday 24th October - pancakes, pizza - dough/cheese, cheese and zucchini muffins, bread, soup, rice

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Breakfast - pancakes - the kids favourite and using two pans and a headstart I actually managed to keep up with demand.

Lunch - Pizza
Grated cheese and made the pizza dough in the TMX.

Made cheese and zucchini mini muffins http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=140.msg215#msg215 for the girls lunch boxes this week.
They tried these and all three really loved them so a def regular in our house.



Dinner - Girls - Brown rice and vegie soup.
We had takeaway curry (buy one get one free!) so cooked rice in the TMX

Also made a loaf of bread.

Saturday 4th September - pizza dough, pasta

The girls had a sleepover and made pizza (dough and grated cheese in the Thermomix).

dh made tomato pasta.

Sat 10th July - boiled egg, pizza, rolls, hamburger

Saturday 10th July

The Thermomix (maybe I need a name for it!!) had quite a busy day.

Breakfast - Boiled egg - very easy, perfect. The girls are always asking for boiled eggs but I rarely can be bothered but will definitely do them much more often now.

Lunch - pizza dough - using the edc recipe, so easy to knead in the thermomix, great tasting pizza dough

Dinner - bread rolls to go with salads. (was going to be hamburgers but I was too full from the pizza still when it got to the kid's dinner time). Just did the basic bread recipe with all baker's flour as don't have any wheat yet. Very yummy, perfect bread rolls.

Also made hamburger mix

- minced rump steak (12 sec speed 7)
- onion and garlic, added veg (parsnip, courgette, capsicum) and chopped
- teaspoon of vege concentrate mix, breadcrumbs (previously created in the thermomix - freeze slices of bread and mill 10 seconds speed 6) , tomato sauce and the meat.
Mixed on reverse.

dh was making this and I told him to put an egg in and he also ended up mixing it too long and over processing it! But hopefully still yummy just not the consistency originally planned.

Will report back on how these came out later.