This is really yummy in pies or mixed through hot pasta. It’s super easy too.
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Tag: Food
Salmon Mousse with Sour Cream Dressing
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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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
Food Glorious food
I’m such a foodie and I LOVE cooking. You can check out some of my favourite recipes by having a look on my Pinterest board or click on the following tags – Food, Thermomix, In the Den Kitchen
Food, Glorious Food
Here we are. Seven days into my 14 day challenge and I hope you are looking forward to checking out the recipes.
Bonus recipe – Honey soy meatballs. Wasn’t sure how this one would go but everyone loved it. It made enough for 2 adults, a 5yo and a 1yo plus leftovers (& a few sneaky ones snuck while mum was serving tea but shhh)
Day 1 – Honey chicken with rice. If you like Honey chicken from the takeaway you’ll love this one. Takes a bit of time but definitely worth the effort
Day 2 – Creamy bacon & basil bowtie pasta*. This one is a family favourite. Makes heaps.
Day 3 – Honey beef stir fry & noodles. Yummo. Love this one. Really nice with either steamed rice or noodles (we went with noodles)
Day 4 – Beef pies. New recipe for us. Had tried this recipe previously and it was ok, wanted to try something different. Added a couple of teaspoons of YIAH Veggie dip mix. Next time I’d add a little less. I decided to makes some wedges to go with it. You can grab the recipe (& what I’d change next time) here.
Day 5 – Moroccan style chicken roast with this stuffing and roast veggies. Wasn’t sure how this would go the first time I cooked it for one of the ThermoFun cook a longs but I was so pleasantly surprised. This is another family favourite I cook when we want something different from the usual roast chook. Always gives a moist roast, and if you put it in the oven for a bit, you get crispy skin.
Day 6 – Chicken mornay. Leftovers night! This is just a tuna mornay recipe made with leftover roast chicken. Seriously yum if you add a bit of grated cheese (& a little YIAH Herb & Garlic dip mix) Really nice the next day on toast with a little grated cheese on top.
Day 7 – Devil Sausages and mashed potato. Love this recipe. Love we end up with leftovers for lunch or another night. Bonus is we have enough leftover mash for tomorrow night’s meal.
*ThermomFun member recipe. If you have a thermo cooker I can highly recommend joining the ThermoFun site. A new recipe every week delivered to your inbox and access to a whole heap of helpful documents!