This is one of my favourite entrees (or late night snacks if it’s in the fridge). I have fond memories of mum making this quite often when I was younger if we were having a special dinner or having people round.
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Category: In the Den Kitchen
In the Den Kitchen series. All our foodie posts live here.
In the Den Kitchen – series 2 #1
I’ve decided instead of naming each post from In the Den Kitchen from this post onwards I’ll be giving them a number – hence Series 2 #1.
I’ll also be going back through and making a page to list all my In the Den Kitchen posts.
Anywho.. on to today’s post
Christmas food!
You may have noticed the recent listing of a bunch of new recipes. Since we’re close to Christmas I thought I’d share a bunch of my favourite recipes to cook at Christmas time. Some are links and some are my own (or family) recipes.
Finger food & Pre-meal nibbles
- Cheese & Capsicum roll
- Cheese log – so simple… roll some Philly cheese into a log then roll in dukkah or YIAH dip mix
- OMG cheese bites (see below)
- any YIAH dip mix
Mains & sides
- Love ham at Christmas and these sound yum – Coke glazed ham. Garlic honey mustard slow cooked ham
- This turkey by Nigella takes awhile but is so worth it. Tasty and really juicy.
- Warm potato salad
Desserts
- Candy Cane ice cream (Thermomix)
- Karina’s raspberry cream mousse thingy (yup that’s what we call it)
- I really want to make this sometime – Mint Chocolate Cheesecake Bûche de Noël
Biscuits/Slices/Cakes/Sweets
- Shortbread
- Chocolate truffles (or rum balls)
- 1 egg meringues
- Mint chocolate truffles
- Peppermint fudge
- Mini Christmas puddings
(for more yummy YIAH recipes, check out my YIAH Facebook page)
Warm potato salad
Another family favourite, no idea where it was from originally but features on the menu at many summer BBQ or Christmas meal.
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1 Egg meringues
My mum’s famous 1 egg meringue. This recipe makes about 40 meringues. Make them different by adding stripes of food colouring to your piping bag or mix in a dash of colouring before piping.
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Shortbread
A favourite recipe from my Grandmother
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Chocolate truffles
A family favourite and often requested at Christmas time.
Chocolate Rum Balls
- 250 g Milk Arrowroot Biscuits
- 1 can condensed milk
- 15 g cocoa powder
- 80 g desiccated coconut (plus extra)
- 30 g rum (optional)
Crush biscuits in a blender or by hand and pour into a bowl.
Add in remaining ingredients, mix until combined.
Take teaspoonfuls of mixture, roll into balls then roll in extra coconut.
Store in an airtight container in the fridge.
Even more food
Onto week 2…..
KFC Style chicken (also known as popcorn chicken) & potato mashies. Love our KFC style chicken and the mashies are so delicious. A new way to use up any leftover mashed potato.
We actually skipped a day because my inlaws took us out for tea so that was why there was no insta pic on Thursday night.
Friday was Beef and Bacon Pasta bake. Another family favourite. Heaps of leftovers. Really easy to make. Only thing I do different from the recipe is to pre cook my pasta and then stir it into the meat mixture.
Saturday night was Teriyaki Pork Meatballs, Steamed Rice and Vegetables*. Seriously yummy. We hadn’t made this before but definitely will again. The meatballs were really nice and the sauce wasn’t overpowering.
This one is a favourite of mine. Makes heaps. Freezes well. Great for entertaining too. Creamy chicken vol-au-vents
Nearly done. Tonight we had potato topped meatloaf. Must be good, I had 2 helpings. Seriously it is good. And I’m not a huge fan of meatloaf.
Second last night and I swapped out another mince meal for Orange & Ginger Pork. Yummy and something quick and easy.
Wednesday was our wedding anniversary so I wasn’t cooking.
And bringing the first of my 14 day challenges to a close we had beef strog from the EDC. Another family favourite.
I’ll be back in a couple of weeks with the next challenge for myself. I hope you enjoy these recipes I’ve shared.
* this recipe is part of the 2015 ThermoFunkies Club. It’s well worth the $37
Two weeks of Thermomix goodness?
I’m really looking forward to this. For the next 14 days I’m cooking Thermomix main meals. What meals you ask? Well wait no more cause here’s the list…….
- Honey Chicken with rice
- Potato topped meatloaf & veggies
- Moroccan style roast chicken and roast vegies
- Teriyaki Pork Meatballs, Steamed Rice and Vegetables
- Creamy bacon & basil bowtie pasta (Thermofun 2014 p56)
- Creamy Chicken Vol au Vents
- honey beef and steamed rice
- potato mashies & popcorn chicken
- beef strog (EDC)
- beef & bacon pasta bake
- chicken mornay
- devil snags and mashed potato
- beef rissoles
- beef pies
Won’t be cooking them in this order but that’s what we’re having. Lots of chicken and beef, hubby will be happy.
I’ll be back in a week to give you the first 7 days of recipes, photos and opinions 🙂
Give me 2 weeks and I’ll give you 14 recipes
As you know, I LOVE cooking and baking and I’ve decided to challenge myself to do a few 2 week challenges and then you get the recipes PLUS I’ll be sharing our opinion on whether it’s a yay or nay.
So what are the challenges?
- 14 days using YIAH in our main meal
- 14 days of Thermomix main meals
- 14 days of baking with YIAH
- 14 days of baking with Thermomix (are you sensing a theme lol)
- 14 of recipes from Pinterest
- ????? who knows – I’m open to ideas
Starting on Tuesday I’ll be back posting what I’m cooking for the fortnight starting with using my Thermo for 14 main meals
In the Den Kitchen – Chicken stir fry
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The other week we felt like something a little different from our usual chicken dishes so I decided to whip up a quick stir fry. It turned out ok so I’m sharing the recipe with you.
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YIAH products mentioned:
Asian Inspired Dukkah