#14DaysOfThermo

14 Days of Thermo

I wasn’t sure how I’d go with this, especially when hubby said he wanted a chook roast but we managed and we got to try some new recipes, so it’s always a win.

Day 1 saw me making the salmon in the Varoma.

 Salmon Steaks with Cucumber & Spiced Yoghurt

Day 2 was homemade pizza dough from the EDC (Everyday Cookbook). I love this pizza dough recipe. I made smaller pizzas this time so had dough left over and have frozen it for quick pizzas for lunch or tea (or a late night snack). We had a garlic pizza to share, I had BBQ base, ham, onion and cheese, hubby & Miss K had tomato base, salami, ham and cheese.

IMG_5207

Day 3 – we were out all day but I whipped up the 5 second chocolate coconut slice. I love this slice and will often whip it up if we’re going somewhere and I want to take a little something.

IMG_5221

Day 4 – savoury mince (with a side of wedges, sour cream & sweet chilli). So yummy. Might add some more herbs next time. Made enough to feed 2 adults and a 4yo. Hubby had seconds and there was still heaps to freeze for another night.

IMG_5228

Day 5 – first time cooking a roast chicken in the Thermo. Used the recipe from the ThermoFun Cook Along. Super moist. Downside was, even with putting it in the oven for 15 minutes, no crispy skin. I can live with that.

IMG_5243

Day 6 – Chicken mornay with leftover chicken. Yes the recipe is tuna but we substituted chicken for tuna. Very  nice. Served with rice. Would be yum mixed with pasta and sprinkled with some cheese

IMG_5293

Day 7 – Sausage casserole from ThermoFun. Hubby thought this had too much tomato. I loved it, mixed with some sweet chilli sauce. Miss K loved it & has 3 helpings!!

IMG_5330

Day 8 – Yoghurt (using the ThermoFun recipe – this is one of the best I’ve tried and turns out nice and thick) & berry coulis (EDC). So much cheaper than buying it. And I forgot to photograph it :/

Day 9 – Ended up staying at Mum& Dad’s for tea but had made some brownies earlier in the day. LOVE these brownies

IMG_5209

Day 10 – Creamy tomato & bacon pasta. A quick, yum family favourite

IMG_5414

Day 11 – Bourbon chicken (a ThremoFun club recipes). Mixed responses. Was nice but not sure if we’d have it again.

IMG_5444

Day 12 –Honey Mustard Lamb roast (before cooking and served with roast veg)

IMG_5465 IMG_5471

Day 13 – bread. The BEST every white bread (so far). Super crispy crust and soft bread in the middle. Delicious – especially strait out of the oven spread with butter *yum*

IMG_5454

Day 14 – Finally… curried sausages from the recipe community. Always yum. I added a bit of coconut this time and it’s yum.

IMG_5515

Would I give this a go again? Hell yeah. I’ve enjoyed trying new recipes and using my Thermomix more. Maybe I’ll make it a monthly project.

A fortnight of thermo cooking

We’ve had our thermomix for just over a year now and I still don’t use it enough as I could/should. So for the next 14 days I am going to make myself use it everyday. I’ll be sharing photos and links to the recipes I cook unless the recipe is from the ThermFun recipe club. 

Tonight’s meal was a ThermoFun recipe – Salmon Steaks with Cucumber & Spiced Yoghurt

Salmon Steaks with Cucumber & Spiced Yoghurt

I’ve never cooked fish in the thermo and I know how touchy salmon can be so jumping in at the deep end LOL

The salmon was perfectly cooked and melted in your mouth. I’d change the sauce slightly next time I made it – less coriander – but that was very yum too and would make a nice refreshing dip. 

I’ll be back at the end of the fortnight to let you know how I’ve gone but you can follow along daily as I’ll be Instagraming what I make – follow me @nightwolfs_den

Foodie post ahead

I’m often posting recipes here on the blog so have decided to create a list so you have an easy way to access them. So up there in the menu bar there is now a Recipes tab and you can pick what section you are interested in. Or you can just use the search feature 😉

I’m slowly adding to the list so not all the recipes will be there. Another thing I’m doing is re-writing the recipes to make them easier for you to print out.

14 Days of Cooking with the Thermo #3

The new challenge for this fortnight is

MONDAY 14th JULY – SUNDAY 27th JULY

1. – Warming – healing – nurturing – easy meals for when we are sick or someone in the family is
2. – Cooking that you can do either with the kids – or for the kids whilst they are on school holidays

Pumpkin Soup Wagon Wheel Slice Celebration Cupcakes Banana Cake Cheese & Bacon Scrolls Beef & Bacon Pasta Bake Devilled Sausages

Monday 14/07 – Pumpkin Soup (converted from Mum’s recipe)
Tuesday 15/07 – ThermOMG Wagon Wheel Slice
Wednesday 16/07 – converted a cupcake recipe with Miss K (Celebration cupcakes)
Thursday 17/07 – Miss K & I converted our favourite banana cake recipe (Banana cake)
Friday 18/07 – Cheese & Bacon Scrolls (with a little added YIAH Pizza spice blend)
Saturday 19/07 – Beef & Bacon Pasta bake (not really healing but yummy on a cold winter night)
Sunday 20/7 – Devilled Sausages & potato bake (potato layered with diced bacon and EDC cheese sauce)

Jaffa Custard EDC Orange Juice Carrot Soup Jam Drops Spag Bol mince Sausage Rolls Cinnamon Scrolls

Monday 21/07 – Jaffa Custard
Tuesday 22/07 – EDC Orange Juice
Wednesday 23/07 – Carrot soup (converted from another of Mum’s recipes)
Thursday 24/07 – Jam drops
Friday 25/07 – Spag Bol using this Lasagne recipe (to put in the freezer – stocking up b4 bub arrives)
Saturday 26/07 – Sausage Rolls
Sunday 27/07 – Cinnamon Scrolls

Another 14 days of good cooking, food in the freezer and a few new to us recipes. Look forward to the next one.

Winter Warmer Soups

With winter in full swing here in Tasmania I thought I’d share some of my favourite soup recipes – Mum’s Pumpkin Soup & Mum’s Carrot Soup

[yumprint-recipe id=’3′]
—-
[yumprint-recipe id=’4′]

14 days of cooking with the Thermo #2

The current challenge (9/6-22/6) is

Who has an enormous “TO DO ” list – or a folder of recipes you have printed off to try one day …….or heaps saved to the computer somewhere ?

Your next 14 day challenge is to work through that list !!! Go on …. give some new recipes a try – and don’t forget to share a pic – and where the recipe was from .

For all of our very new owners – just keep working your way through your EDC ( everyday cookbook)

I have a huge list saved of recipes to try and my Thermo Pinterest board is growing daily AND this fortnight falls during the ThermoFun Week Cook Along so there are some new recipes to try there too.
I will be totally honest, I’ve had my Thermo nearly a year and I still haven’t made everything in the EDC cause a lot of it we wouldn’t eat so therefore not cooking it 😉

Lemon Butter Teacakes Confetti Cookies Shepherd's Pie Cinnamon scrolls Yoghurt Best ever chocolate milkshake 002 003

Monday 9/6 – Lemon butter tea cakes – converted from this recipe & using ECD Lemon Butter (p47)*
Tuesday 10/6 – Confetti Cookies
Wednesday 11/06 – Shepherd’s Pie
Thursday 12/06 – cinnamon scrolls
Friday 13/06 – yoghurt (this is my second time trying yoghurt, last time was a failure)
Saturday 14/06 – best ever chocolate milkshake (so rich but soooo yummy)
Sunday 15/06 – mayo from EDC (p40) + curried eggs

Pikelets Sweet & Sour chicken with vegies  Honey Lime Chicken Mars Bar Brownie Raspberry Cheesecake Choc chip cookies

Monday 16/6 – Pikelets (for the Thermomfun Cook Along)
Tuesday 17/6 – Chocolate-Orange Shortbread Pinwheels (forgot to take a pic but where yum)
Wednesday 18/06 – Sweet & Sour chicken with vegies (Thermofun Cook Along recipe)
Thursday 19/06 – Honey Lime Prawns & noodles (done with chicken) (Thermofun Cook Along recipe)
Friday 20/06 – Mars Bar Brownie (Thermofun Cook Along)
Saturday 21/06 – Passionfruit cheesecake (except I made mine with raspberries)
Sunday 22/06 – Choc-chip cookies (Thermofun Cook Along)

Really enjoyed the Thermofun Cook along and am looking forward to the next one in July. I’ve also enjoyed trying some new recipes – there are a few that will go in our favourites book, some need to be tweaked to our tastes and others, not so much for us. That’s the joy of trying recipes out.

*I’ve blogged this recipe if anyone is interested 🙂

Lemon Butter Teacakes

I’m doing the next 14 days of cooking with the Thermomix challenge and on Monday I converted this Lemon Butter Teacake recipe.

Here is my conversion if you want to give it a go 🙂

Thermomix Lemon Butter Tea Cakes

Cupcakes

  • 65 g butter (softened)
  • 100 g caster sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla essence
  • 140 g self raising flour
  • 80 g milk
  • 4.5 tbsp lemon butter (see note 1)

Topping

  • 10 g butter (melted)
  • 2 tsp caster sugar

Cupcakes

  1. Preheat oven to 180C (160C fan forced). Line a cupcake tray with paper (or silicone) cases.

  2. Beat butter, sugar, egg and vanilla together on speed 4, 20 seconds or until combined.

  3. Add flour, milk and 2 tablespoons of lemon butter. Mix speed 4, 10 seconds or until combined. Give a stir with the spatula to ensure flour is incorporated.

  4. Spoon into cases and top each with 1 teaspoon of remaining lemon butter.

  5. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden.

Topping

  1. Brush hot cupcakes with melted butter. Sprinkle with caster sugar.

  2. Allow to cool.

1. We used the Everyday Cookbook recipe for lemon butter.

This recipe was originally created using a Thermomix TM31 model. It has been remade in a Thermomix TM6 model.

Baking
cup cakes, lemon

14 days of cooking with the Thermo

I joined a group on Facebook that challenges you to cook something new with your Thermomix for 14 days. The latest challenge for 26/5 to 8/6 was…

1. – “I’ve had my tmx a yr and I still haven’t made…..” that thing everyone raves about that you keep meaning to try, something that’s so simple but you haven’t got round to it yet, that thing that’s been on the to do list for ages or something you thought you would make in the first week that you just never got round to!!!

2. – winter warmers – hearty nourishing winter meals

With that challenge I decided to make a list of things I’d like to make and thought I’d blog about it.

  • Monday 26/5 – Yummy Chicken Pasta (recipe community)
  • Tuesday 27/5 – Pikelets (TM31 Everyday Cookbook p57) and lemon butter (TM31 Everyday Cookbook p47)
  • Wednesday 28/5 – Tomato Soup (TM31 Everyday Cookbook p 78)
  • Thursday 29/5 – Impossible quiche (Devil of a cookbook) – first time doing quiche in thermo
  • Friday 30/5 – Chicken Stroganoff (Devil of a Cookbook) – a family favourite
  • Saturday 31/5 – Raisin bread (from Thermo Affairs)
  • Sunday 1/6 – crumpets (recipe community) – a bit of a fail, not sure what went wrong 🙁 and I forgot to take a photo

Week 2

  • Monday 2/6 – Super simple sausage rolls (recipe community)
  • Tuesday 3/6 – converted mum’s one egg meringue recipe – still working on tweaks
  • Wednesday 4/6 – Apricot Balls
  • Thursday 5/6 – taco mince (using the packet stuff)
  • Friday 6/6 – Parmesan Garlic Bread Wheel
  • Saturday 7/6 – i was out all day so didn’t make anything
  • Sunday 8/6 – Chicken Cashew Nut (TM31 Everyday Cookbook p111)

Overall I think it was a pretty good 2 weeks. We’ve found some new recipes we’ll add to our family favourites, some that will need a bit of tweaking before we decide and a couple that won’t get made again. I’m looking forward to the next challenge 😀

From the Den Kitchen–Me & my Thermo

Yup, we finally got one. Last Saturday our new Thermomix arrived and both hubby & I have been cooking up a storm in it.

Thanks to Belinda, our lovely Thermo consultant, we had a delicious demo meal with some friends & family – sorbet, dip, soup, rolls, a chicken dish and then custard all in 2 hours. If you get the chance – go to a Thermo demo – you won’t be disappointed 😉

We’ve made Anzacs, scrambled eggs, orange juice, not tinned spaghetti, silverside & mustard sauce, more Anzacs, honey joys, Profiteroles, Chicken & corn soup AND a sponge cake! I’m currently making a cheese, bacon & garlic pull apart and tomorrow the plan is to make some vanilla essence (& vanilla ben paste), Scottish tablet (fudge) and maybe try making my own condensed milk.

Do you own a Thermomix? Do you want one? Not fussed?
If you do – favourite recipes?? or blogs – always looking for new blogs 😉