Sunday, February 19, 2012

Monday 20th February 2012

Been a while, I know!

Have been loving my thermomix. I have been using it for as much as I can think of. I use it to chop vegies going into other dishes (to hide), to make pikelets, breakfast smoothies, slushies, bread, dough, almost all of our weekly meals... the list goes on!

Recently I have made:

  • Scones (which I had never made before owning a thermomix), served with whipped cream which took less than a minute to whip to perfect consistency.
  • Clinker Slice (I made for a work morning tea but left it at home, so re-made it the following week)
  • Pizza dough (Had not been having much luck with rise of my dough so I tried a different batch of yeast and it worked much better)
  • Pizza pockets for the kids for dinner! They love them!
  • Fast chicken curry from the EDC - deliciously easy.
  • Chicken Satay (converted my slow cooker recipe, now only takes 20 minutes instead of 4 hours!)
  • Thermomix Cheesy Chicken Balls, as a light dinner and as a snack.
I am doing a cake decorating course soon (in my spare time!!) so thought it best I start practising so I will have something to decorate! Started out with Buttermilk Vanilla Cupcakes, they were sensational! Will definitely be keeping this recipe as a base!





Most excitingly I received my order of "For Food's Sake". The food looks awesome, but maybe a little out of my league just yet! I tried making baguettes, but not really sure they turned out how they should (although we all ate it!).




 I also made the Salted Caramel and Macadamia Brownie, which was easy, and tasted great, although I need to work on learning more about my oven temperature as it didn't cook totally on the inside, and was burning around the edges a little. Still tasted great, although R was not a fan of the salt!




Friday, February 3, 2012

Friday 3rd February 2012

Wow - its been so long since I posted, I feel really guilty!

We went away for a few nights - with no power, so no thermomix :(

We have added some standard meals to our menu planning now - Baked Penne with Meatballs, Honey Mustard Chicken, Vegetarian Sausage Rolls, Sweet N Sour Beef, Chicken Tacos... just to name a few.

Have experimented with some baking - a couple of banana cake fails and a win with converting this healthy Power Muffin recipe.

I attempted rice pudding for dessert tonight (from the EDC), and thanks to a hot tip from my thermomix/work buddy, I cooked it for an extra 5 minutes and it was yum! (R laughed when I told him I was going to try rice pudding. I have tried unsuccessfully for years to replicate my mums rice pudding, and he thinks I was making it up that there was even such a thing!) R and I both ate a big bowl each!