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i did the ginger beer recipe over the weekend for DH and FIL. i ended up having to make up a plain soda stream to add more mineral water to it as it was very strong. the recipe also said to use 2 lemons but next time might just try one. definately needed watering down! :D
yesterday i made porriage, custard, chorizo and capsicum risotto and a latte.
today im making ice cream, hommus and swedish meatballs
im in love :heartbeat:
You made them all seperately right Olive? Cos I'm not sure about a porriage, custard, chorizo and capsicum risotto - with a latte on the side!
Nah Jo, I am pretty sure I saw one of the Masterchef contestants whip that up the other night ;) :p
:rofl: lenny!
oh olive the ice cream is to die for! i would have to say its THE best ice cream i have ever tasted!!
we are making pizza pockets today for lunch. we made a 5 seed loaf of bread the other day and it was so nice. normally home made bread sits really heavily in my stomach but this one was so light i didnt even notice it! only issue was DS keeps pooing out all the poppy seeds undigested! :rofl:
So, all you lovers out there.....
Do I want one????????
How much am I looking at to get one?
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yes u do want one and it will set u back $1936 but so worth it!!!!
I havent had a chance to cook much lately but last night DH got pizza which I cant have so I made myself sweet potato and quinoa soup from the GF cookbook. I was a bit suss about it at first so gave it another 15minutes to cook and it was so yummy. It's nice to be able to whip together something healthy so quickly. I did use less water than in the recipes (about 2/3). It didnt need a whole onion either IMO but that's a taste thing. I added cream when I served it.
I have a celeriac in the fridge. I've never used one before. I'm thinking of making soup or something. Anyone have any suggestions?
Olive, was the ice cream easy to make? Do you need an ice cream maker?
I think because I've always found cooking a chore, I havent been trying as many things. I made pikelets the other day and I couldnt believe how fast it was. Mind you I was starving so ate most of them as I cooked them. They were lovely and fluffy.
tashybabe, there is a recipe in the EDC book for ice cream to do in the thermomix. so easy and done in around 2 mins i think
no ice cream maker tash, just cook the mixture then into the freezer then remmix after 3-4 hours
There's a great deal on for July which includes 9 month interest free finance so you have 2 days left for that. If you have your demo before the end of August you get 2 thermoservers for free. They are great in themselves and you can only get them by hosting a demo I think. If you're in Melbourne, I can PM you the name of a consultant. Otherwise call the TMX head office to organise.:
Have a look on their website. There's video that shows how many things you can use it for. Also there's loads of examples uploaded on youtube.
ETA-you dont just want one, you NEED one :)
Great. I'll look it up. What volume does the recipe make? i'm running out of containers :). DH's favorite flavour is cookies and cream. Do you think if I bought some Oreos that would work? I dont have time to make biscuits today.:
One less appliance needed then :):
makes around 1L.
Thanks Tash!
I need to convince DP that we should dip into our IVF fund to purchase.
Our problem is that we both work long hours. He gets home at 6pm (starts at 7am) and I leave at 8.45am and get home at 7pm. Dinners are sometimes a nightmare as DD needs to be ready for bed at 8.30pm. I try to cook ahead on weekends but it is sometimes a bit haphazard.
I bought a cuisineart ice cream maker in December. Please don't tell me my hopefully-soon-to-be-purchased thermomix will make it redundant!!!
N2l - that's a tough call. We used part of DH's redundancy payout. Mum used the finance deal. I think it's about $50 a week. She's already got the machine and is cooking up a storm. We got one because I am now beyond paranoid about what I eat so want to 1) eat more healthy food and 2) reduce our intake of additives and preservatives. The TMX helps us do that with the added bonus of being quick and being easier to clean up with.
As for appliances, we sold a bunch on ebay. Didnt get much for them, but it cleared up cupboard space. I now smugly walk through homewares stores looking at appliances thinking to myself, Dont need that. Oooh how much for a *insert appliance type*, lucky we dont need that now. :) yes, I am a smug TMX owner. Just picture me as a 50s housewife in the kitchen in heels and pearls beaming out of a magazine. Or you can picture me in my jarmies wondering blearily into the kitchen and making something healthy when I feel like eating junk.
I'd say it's ideal for when you come home tired from work and cbf cooking and you forgot to get something out if the freezer ( which i must remember to do). 20min later you can have a meal. Our current favorite emergency meals are penne amatriciana or a risotto using whatever is at hand.
OMG chocolate custard is the same as chocolate yogo :happydance:
It's awesome isn't it Olive!!!
We have had our thermomix for 10 days now and we are using it constantly. I make porridge most mornings DH made bagels for lunch over the weekend. We have made orange sorbet (yum!), lots of different dips, choc chip cookies... It does really good boiled eggs too. We cook tea in it every night - tried the meatloaf over the weekend and that was divine!
*sigh* I'm in love.
Me too! Just about to put my mushroom risotto on. Chocolate custard ROCKS (actually really way too much!). nom nom nom.:
And I just shipped off a heap of my appliances with my mum (back to siblings interstate) - decided i really wouldn't get that much on ebay for my crappy lot, so might as well pass them on. Now I have room in my cupboards!!
Tashy - I love that image of you as a 50's housewife looking smug tehehehe! I'd join you in that, but I think my trackies & ugg boots aren't quite up to par.
Just subscribing. I'm going to buy one when I loose another 10kilos. Thats my present to myself.
Belfie: We're having mushroom risotto tonight too! We got a huge bag of mushrooms so need to use them up. I might try the mushroom soup at some stage too.
Mildez: That is an AWESOME idea! What a great present to yourself (and you may find it helps keep you healthy - I've been eating heaps better since we got it).
That's a great goal. Though I have to be careful not to add another 10kg with what I'm making.:
I can't believe how much you guys are cooking up a storm! I dont think I use it half as much as I could - still getting used to it. I think I've only used the Varoma once. It will be penne amatriciana for tea tonight. It's so easy.
I made the chocolate custard too and oh, yummy! DH doesnt like thick custard so it was all for me and, umm, it's a bit moreish, so it didnt last :)
Yesterday I made chicken soup in the TMX. I wizzed a few vegies together, then through in some stock and water and cooked the chicken pieces in the basket with a bay leaf for 40mins. Then added the chicken to the vegie broth for another 15 minutes. Very nice. DH was feeling poorly so I kept it very bland. I also made celeriac soup in the slow cooker at the same time, then wizzed it in the TMX at the end. So we're not lacking for soup atm.
I also made normal ice cream the other day. As the only stainless steel bowl we own is the Thermoserver, it did take overnight for the first freeze, then blitzed in the TMX and back in the freezer - how creamy is it? I made coconut ice cream last night. I couldnt find a recipe so kind of made it up myself with what I had. 1 x can coconut cream, then filled up can with milk and threw that in. Realised I should have used normal cream instead, so added that (280ml) as well and a heap of sugar. Cooked as per normal instructions, added dessicated coconut at the end and left overnight. It wasn't 100% frozen this morning, which made it easy to blitz again. It should be nicely done for dessert tonight. It was tasting yummy when I blitzed it this morning :)
Sterla - how did you make bagels? I lurv bagels but never tried making thm.
Tash: DH made them, he just found a recipe online (StephBerg I think). Mixed the dough in the thermomix, let it rise, separated the dough out, let it rise again... then you actually boil some water and cook each one for 30 seconds each side, then you bake them. They were really good!!!!
Tashy thats what I am afraid of it I get one now. And then I'll have 20kilos to shift not 10. I've lost 9.1 now so almost half way there. I guess its a pretty expensive present but too bad. I'm going to get it. My mouth is watering reading all the yummy stuff everyone is making. I love cooking as it is and eating even more!
Mildez - that's a great reward!
I've just had to set a new August rule for myself. No more hot chocolates or chocolate custards until I'm at goal weight. I think I'll never get there otherwise! They are a naughty temptation, too good & too easy to make!
So saying I've frozen some soymilk to try the easy blueberry icecream (soy cos of DH, and at least it's not chocolate right? ;)). We have our custard using soymilk too, and my mum who loves all things dairy reckoned she couldn't even tell. And the mushroom risotto tonight was DELISH! And I made the lemonade, heavenly. Can't wait to have it in summer, would be soooo refreshing.
Quick qu: does lamb mince taste much different to beef mince? I'm not allowed to eat beef on instructions from my acupuncturist but I want to make lasagne. Mum made one last week in the TMX and it was really good. She also made pumpkin soup and zabaglione that meal, all in the TMX. Very simple & very yummy.
Mildez - about weight loss. One thing we're finding is we're eating more healthy food. As long as I can resist making lots of sweet stuff we're doing OK. Eg as I have so much soup, I'm finding I'll snack on that rather than toast. I made sweet potato & quinoa soup last week. Not only is it yummy, it's filling and full of protein, so I eat small portions and feel full for longer. Which is what I need to stop grazing on rubbish. Hmm, think I'll make some hummos for snacking.
tash it wont really taste different! can you mix pork and lamb?
I don't have a TMX. I haven't seen one in real life so excuse me if this sounds daft. But can you only cook one dish at a time or can you do a few at once???
You can only make one at a time although there is a steamer attachment for on top so you can plan well and do more than one thing but the thermie cooks things quicker and easier ie risotto in under 20 minutes without having to stand there and stir. My DH just made lemon butter in 10 minutes. That includes prep, cleaning and drying up and jarring it!
I only just got mine so am learning loads. Others will have more info on the steamer as I haven't used mine yet.
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Hi Girls- I've been stalking and can't not reply any more!!!
I got my Thermie about 3 weeks ago and can't believe how much I love it!! I have cooked in it prob 2-3 times a day nearly every day since it arrived. Tonight I did the Chicken and Cashews wuth Satay Sauce and Coconut rice from Quirky Cooking and it was sublime- will def have it once a week from now on. So healthy and easy.
Other than that, from the EDC I've done the choc chip cookies, banana walnut and date bread, pumpkin soup, foccacia, custard, trad ice-cream, ragu, chicken stock, veg stock paste, chicken curry, mashed potato. The only 'fail' I've had were the muffins..they were tough and rubbery but next time I'll just cut down mixing time. Did a diff version of the Too Easy Choc Cake yesterday and that was AMAZING and quick (throw it all in and mix for 55 seconds)!!! Also found a SUPER EASY honey soy chicken and veg which I mix with noodles.
What an INCREDIBLE machine- how have I coped without it???
I've got my demo on Sat- can't wait to get my Thermoserves...just wondering, has anyone bought any of the cookbooks?
ok thanks... sounds great for encouraging people back into the kitchen! I have been enjoying reading everything the TMX lovers have to say. Happy cooking everyone!
Olive - I dont eat pork. I'll just give it a go and see what it's like.
V-love - I have the GF and Indian cookbooks. I also have the Traveling with TMX cookbook though havent been impressed with it. I want to get the Meat book and the Budget booklet.
Currently eating coconut ice cream. It's yummy but now I have an ice cream headache
What do you think of the Indian cookbook, Tash? I'm thinking of getting Full Steam ahead to get better use out of my Varoma.
Coconut Ice- Cream sounds delish...this sounds weird but I think ice-cream headaches are more common with TMX ice-cream...my DS has to go really slowly due to a bad experience last week and my friend's DS had the same prob here last week, too...
I'm getting the indian, asian, gluten free & meat lovers. My (insane) DH wanted to buy all the books my consultant had with her, his rationale being that we'd spent so much on the machine, what was a bit more on the recipe books! :rofl: I get them in a few weeks... :crossfingers:
Tash - I've made the bolognaise sauce twice already - once for spaghetti using beef and again this week for the quick shepherds pie using lamb. Honestly I could barely tell the difference. I thought it was actually yummier second time around, but I think I got a better balance of herbs in it (and I stick extra veggies in to replace the onion, so I added capsicum & mushrooms). So I reckon go for the lamb, it'll be great. I want to make the lasagne too. I loved the shepherd's pie. Which book is the sweet potato & quinoa soup in?
V-love, welcome to the TMX love-in! Love my thermoservers, they are the bomb.
I've also got Robogourmet (iPhone App) which looks pretty good but I haven't cooked anything from it yet.
V-love we had the same thing for tea last night :o except i made the sauce green :rofl:
i have my delivery demo on friday and also cant wait to get the thermoservers!!
We cooked an Indian feast soon after getting our TMX but before we got the Indian cookbook. Our consultant emailed a couple of recipes through. The Butter Chicken in the EDC apparently is disappointing, so we used another recipe. Anyway, we made Lamb Rogan Josh & Butter Chicken with rice, kachumber salad, raita & flat bread (from the Traveling with TMX book).
I mixed using the TMX with the slow cooker. We'd recently had a fail cooking mince so didnt want a repeat until I worked out what went wrong. I made the Lamb Rogan Josh sauce in the TMX then cooked the meat in the sauce in the slow cooker. I did that the day before the dinner as it improves with time.
We then made the Tikka paste in the TMX. It's amazing to a non-cook like me to be able to roast & grind spices rather than just use powders. The smell was amazing.
We then marinated the chicken overnight, made the butter chicken sauce in the TMX and cooked it in the slow cooker.
The salad, raita, rice & flat bread dough were all made in the TMX. It was so yum. I didnt like the flat bread. Next time, we'll use a proper naan bread recipe.
I gave Mum half the Tikka paste and we still have heaps. I add it to soup or just use it to cook stirfry chicken.
I've also made our own herb & garlic butter from cream. Got loads of it frozen in small serves. No idea how we'll get through it all. I should have split the butter before i added the garlic & herbs and made different flavours.
Today I just need to make more vegie stock. Finally ran out.
Tashy, I am a really generous person (can't help it, it's in my nature ;) ) so am happy to have home delivered any excess delicious food you have. We eat at 7pm so anytime in the half hour before is fine ;) :p
Another question...washing your thermomix. Is it hard? (fiddly) Can it go in the dishwasher?
Ta :)
N2L- I find washing the TMX really easy- I usually just wash it in the sink with everything else. Apparently, it can go in the dishwasher, I just haven't used mine for a while cos DH is away (he's the dishwasher king- I prefer to wash up!). The blades are removable if you need to do a full-on clean and it's very simple not fiddly at all.
Wow, Tash- that all sounds sooo yummy..think I'll be getting me the Indian book, too!
N2l - that's so sweet of you to offer :)
It is easy to clean most of the time. I just put some water and detergent in and blitz it. However, when making dough, it can get caught under the blades. But it's easy to clean. I put it in the dishwasher 2-3 times a week. If we're cooking with chilli it gets a thorough clean as the scent tends to linger in the lid. It's still less fiddly to clean than our old juicer.
Totally agree. The only time I found it really tough to clean was after making porridge. And mincing meat. Does anyone else mince meat in it? I didn't really like the texture of the minced meat & a lot of it was caught on the blades. Maybe I got the wrong sort of meat? :dunno: But i reckon I'll just buy normal mince.: