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.

Monday 21st March - smoothie, pork and fried rice

Breakfast - smoothie.

Dinner - Pork and fried rice.

Blitzed garlic and ginger, added 700g water, put rice in basket, pork in foil parcel with soy sauce. Cooked 10 mins, varoma temp. Added vegies to top varoma tray and cooked another 10 mins.

Added sherry, soy sauce and corn flour to the bowl and cooked 4 minutes to make the sauce.

Also added a scrambled egg - had brought the eggs in from the chickens and one had a soft shell so quickly fried it up in a pan I already had out.

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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.

Saturday 22nd January - curry

For dinner made a quick curry using some diced pork, leftover Butter Chicken sauce (from the freezer) and extra tikka paste (for a stronger curry flavour), very easy and yummy.

As you can tell we were out for most of the day and dinner had to be a super quick and easy one. I was shattered so being able to throw the three ingredients into the TMX, some rice into the rice cooker and come back 20 mins later to a really yummy (I so love the flavours of indian meals cooked with freshly ground whole spices) meal was just so great.

We will be off line for a few days but will be back on Thursday with all our Thermomix creations.

Hope everyone is enjoying my blog.

Monday 10th January - coleslaw, babi pong tay

This morning made coleslaw for dh to take to work.

Dinner was Babi Pong Tay again as found some pork ribs on special. Was going to do the slow cooked one but ran out of time.

Monday 3rd January - smoothie, Babi pong tay

Breakfast - smoothie

Out all day but home in time to make Babi pong tay for dinner.

This pork belly recipe is featured in the 2011 Thermomix calendar.

Yummy!!!!

Served with rice and steamed some veg (bok choy, red capsicum and brocolli) in the Varoma for the last 15 minutes.

Wednesday 15th December - smoothie, pork and mushroom tikka masala, rice and veg

Breakfast - smoothie

Dinner - Pork and Mushroom Tikka Masala. Using TMX tikka paste. Also cooked rice and steamed carrots in the varoma.

Sunday 14th November - cashew pork, garlic cumin rice and spicy beans and peas

Dinner we had an Indian inspired meal

Made the cashew chicken but with pork for the Indian cookbook. Chose this as heard good reviews, the older two love cashews and don't like hot curries. (followed the recipe other than using pork and 1 red chili instead of the two green ones)
Cooked it up, then popped in the oven to slow cook with a dish of cashews roasting.
Made garlic and cumin rice and popped that in the Thermoserver whilst I made the veg.
Spicy beans and peas
Chopped garlic, cumin and coriander seeds.
Added chopped green beans and peas.
1/2 tin of tomatoes
A couple of dashes of tobasco.

Cooked for 8 mins 100° reverse spd 1.

This was a lovely meal, really loved the flavours.

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.

Thursday 5th August - dip, pork in yoghurt, cake

Made EDC Garlic and herb dip to take to a friend's. This is such a favourite dip.

Dinner was based on this recipe http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=26.0 - did pork and carrots in yoghurt, served with rice. I loved it. dd1 liked it, dd2 didn't like it, dd3 loved it.

Then made the Too Easy chocolate cake to take for a morning tea at school tomorrow.