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Tips and Tricks / Clever way to separate eggwhite from yolk
« on: December 01, 2012, 10:43:45 am »
There's an easy way to separate egg white & yolk for whipping the whites only.

With the MC in, crack the egg on top of the TM lid and the whites will slide into the bowl, leaving the yolks on top.
Crack as many eggs as you need then remove the lid, hold over a jar or container, take out the MC & the yolks slip into the container which you can pop in the fridge for later use.

If it's the yolk you need in the TM bowl, not the whites, use the same method but put the lid over the storage container first, then over the TM bowl.


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Special Diets / FAILSAFE Mock Tomato Sauce
« on: November 30, 2012, 11:23:00 am »
Suitable for Elimination diet.
If you're not on elimination diet you could add whiskey & carrots, reducing the amount of added water accordingly.

Ingredients :
•1 tin Red Kidney Beans, drained and rinsed
•150g Pear, about 2 large halves
•1 teaspoon Citric Acid
•between 20-50g Brown Sugar (depending on how sweet you like it)
•1 teaspoon Salt
•1 stick Celery, roughly chopped
•1/2 leek, roughly chopped (or 4 spring onions)
•2 cloves of garlic
•1/2 cup Water

Method:
•Add all ingredients, except water, to TMX and pulverise on Speed 8 for about 5-8 seconds
•Add water
•With MC in, cook for 25minutes,  Speed 3,  100ºC
•Purée by gradually increasing to Speed 9 for about 15 seconds

Adapted from 'Sandra's No-Tomato Sauce' recipe, which I have saved as a shortcut on my touchpad & refer to as my base recipe every time I cook this. Unfortunately, my laptop was putting a msg up about a bandwidth error at the time of posting this, so I couldn't actually view her recipe to post onto here. I'm sure her original version would be much yummier as I've had to omit a few things because we're on strict elimination diet. There's a link to 'Sandra's No-Tomato Sauce' recipe on Real FailSafe Meals blog: http://realfailsafemeals.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/sandras-no-tomato-sauce.html#!/2012/07/sandras-no-tomato-sauce.html

I use this mock tomato sauce on pizza bases, with mince as a bolognaise sauce & in lasagne - has been a real winner with the boys and even hubby loves it! I reckon I'd make a batch every 5 days. I'm going to try mixing with canellini beans (per suggestion on realfailsafemeals blog) for baked beans next!

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Introduce Yourself / Loving my Thermomix!
« on: November 29, 2012, 11:18:21 am »
Hi all, I'm a mum of 3 boys (6,3,5mo) from Toowoomba, Qld. Hubby kindly bought me a Thermi 6 mo ago - in fact he insisted! Since then (even though we have a new baby) we have eaten home every night and not once gotten takeaway! Saved $35/wk = $800+ so far - how awesome is that!

I'm a Bowen therapist and exercise physiologist and am passionate about healthy eating and lifestyle habits, so I just LOVE how Thermomix makes healthy eating possible for all, regardless of cooking ability, time and even money (when you factor in weekly savings, initial outlay to buy a thermi isn't that much!)

I found the look of a thermi a bit plain, so in my spare time (when bubs is asleep and I should probably be cleaning the house!) I've been getting arty  and having fun designing decals to pretty up the front of Thermomixes. For anyone interested, please take a look at my facebook page 'ThermoStyle' www.facebook.com/ThermoStyle  - they are quality, removable vinyl decals for jazzing  up the front of our thermi's and the really awesome bit is they are 100% Australian made, supporting local businesses and SAHM's.

I've been using the forum as a guest for a while and am glad to finally have taken the time to register and introduced myself as I've been loving the the thermi community - as so thrilled to be a part of it! I'm really grateful especially for thermomix  cooking blogs 'Cooking for Oscar' and 'Domestic Diva Unleashed' because we've been on RPAH (aka FAILSAFE) diet for past 3&half mo due to serious health issue my 3yr old had and accessing support from the RPAH thermomix community has given me the strength to persevere. It looks like the road to finding the underlying cause and treatment is going to be a lot longer yet and in the meantime we have to stay on RPAH restricted elimination diet bc we can't tolerate any salicylates, preservatives, benzoates etc, nor can I tolerate amines. This is where the Thermomix has really been a lifesaver for me - I have to make EVERYTHING from scratch (including mock tomato sauce from kidneys beans, pear and citric acid) which is difficult at best, let alone with a new baby in the house. So yes, I LOVE my thermomix. It is my constant kitchen companion, gets used minimum of  3+ times a day and travels with me if we go away. Thank you Vorwerk!

Quite a lengthy intro but that's me - I'd love to connect more w anyone who has had similar dietary issues and has positive/ success stories in identifying cause and overcoming.  If you have advice or can point me to a thread /website/ resource etc that would be helpful, I'd really appreciate it!

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