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.

Wednesday 22nd June - porridge, tortillas, orange choc chip muffins

I'm really going to try to find the time to get back into this blog and write more about what I've cooked and include photos. Our meals haven't been very exciting recently, we have so much on that everything has to be quick to make and I've fallen back on a lot of tried and tested favourites.

But took a couple of photos today to liven things up.

Breakfast was the usual porridge.

Lunch made tortilla's (Trudie's recipe from the forum). These really are so much nicer than bought and I must make them more often.

I also made some orange and choc chip muffins (recipe also from the forum). I love these but dd3 always wants me to make the cheese and zuchinni ones but I held my own today, lol. I love how you just throw the whole orange in and it tastes great.

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.

Monday 17th January - smoothie, porridge, boiled eggs, tortillas

Breakfast - smoothie and porridge. Used up the last of the frozen strawberries - been eeking them out the last few days as the big girls are at gymnastics today and the frozen berry place is across the road so I can go without making a trip up there.

Dinner. Was hot today and we were going to have beef kofta's, but in the end decided to have 'lunch for dinner' as dd1 calls it, probably her favourite dinner is lunch, lol.

So made tortilla's (did try to get away with shop bought ones as was tired, but dd2 pleaded with me to make some. And boiled eggs (earlier and chilled) to go with other salad bits.

Sunday 2nd January 2011 - potato cakes/hash browns, tortillas, smoothie, beef and beer casserole, bread

Breakfast - potato cakes and smoothie.

Made potato cakes - winged this a bit. Initially I chopped potatoes (3 largish ones) for 2secs on spd 5. Put into a bowl and added 2 eggs, salt, pepper and mixed. (had noted this recipe rather than the EDC one in my book) but it seemed to need some flour so added flour to get a good consistency.

These made the chunky hash brown (can see one on the right), wasn't sure about how these cooked so put the rest of the mixture back in and blitzed for 8 secs on sp 5 to make more of a batter.

Both tasted great, the batter ones were easier to cook.

Next time I'm going to try blitzing for 2-3 secs, removing half and then doing another 6 secs and mixing the two lots to give a batter with a bit more texture. Think that will work well.

Kids loved them, esp dd2 who managed 6!

Lunch - made tortilla's to go with salads etc.

Dinner - Beef and beer casserole (from my recipe - down as pork in beer on here) - really yummy.

Made a couple of changes. Added the vegies with 25 mins to go so they were crunchy (we like crunchy veg) and cooked at 90° (not 100). ETA I'm sure 25 mins is incorrect. I do veg under 10mins in the varoma and less in the bowl, may have meant 5 mins????

Everyone loved this again.

Made heaps.

And made a loaf of bread.

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!

Saturday 11th December - cake, banana muffins, tortilla's, ravioli, lentil curry

It's dd1's birthday party tomorrow (going to Putt Putt Golf at Dural) so cake making today.

Made the large chocolate cake from the forum, also made a variety of blue and purple chocolate butterflies and stars to decorate it, as well as blue chocolate 9 (she's turning 9 obviously).

Also made some banana and choc chip muffins (forum recipe), for general eating and also will send a variety of these and cheese and zucchini muffins for dd2 to take to school on Monday for a class picnic.

Lunch - made Trudy Olive's tortilla's. (forum recipe)

Dinner - spinach and feta ravioli, made the filling in the tmx (cooked spinach, added feta and blended) and also the pasta dough. dd1 made up the ravioli's. (not the best example as this was one of the last ones when we were running out of filling).

And later dh made himself lentil curry (from his own very long winded recipe - smelt great though).

Sunday 5th December - porridge, smoothie, Christmas Shortbread, dip, salad, tortillas, slow cooked ribs, potatoes, steamed veg

Breakfast: porridge and 4 berry smoothies

Spent a lot of the morning in the kitchen

Pistaschio and cranberry Christmas shortbread

Kids had this for desert and loved it.

Lovely red, green and white festive colours.

Not TMX but also made some more Xmas chocolates (the girls have been loving having a little advent chocolate in their lunch boxes as a December treat) and easiyo yoghurt

Lunch - garlic and herb dip
Carrot, capsicum and lime salad (with leftover dip in the bowl)
Tortillas (Trudy Olive's recipe)
(also tomato, cucumber and feta salad and leftover veg from last night)

Dinner was Helene's slow cooked ribs

These are just so scrumptious, though I over reduced the glaze, but just slapped it on and cooked and worked fine. Well worth the time and effort - though really they aren't that much work so long as you are around the house.

Served with parmesan salt potatoes (cubed potatoes, cooked in the basket 20 mins; then rinsed and dried the bowl, chopped parmesan and salt and then tossed in the potatoes and a little EVOO and mixed for 10secs, reverse, speed 1. Then popped in a roasting tray with a little more oil and baked in the oven to crisp up.)

And steamed vegetables in the Varoma.

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.