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Chit Chat / Re: What are your top 10 recipes?
« on: November 15, 2011, 06:13:46 am »
My (and my family) Top Ten Thermie Recipes.

Easy Chocolate Cake (EDC)
Bechamel Sauce (EDC) for my chicken lasagne
Custard (EDC)
Tuna Mornay (forum)
Pasta Carbonara (from Recipe Community)
Apricot Rissotto (yet to try and steam drumsticks in varoma)
Chocolate Brownies (forum)
Honey Soy chicken wings (forum)
Banana, Date and Walnut Bread (EDC)
Making my own castor and icing sugar


This is all I cook in my thermie.  :-[ I am about to start going through my TM cookbooks and choosing something new to make each week. As my cooking confidence is increasing (thanks to thermie) I need to start using the Varoma. Never used it since the demo  ???

Can anyone suggset eay things to start me on my way?

P.S. DEDE...... what Fried Rice and Honey Mustard Chicken recipes do you use?

Thanks
Embarrassed DG xxxx

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Chit Chat / Re: What's for Dinner Tonight?
« on: November 13, 2011, 02:31:05 am »
Tonights meal is Baked Penne Carbonara. Was in the latest Fooworks catalogue.

Cook pasta in saucepan. In the meantime prepare carbonara sauce as per EDC instructions.

Pour cooked and drained pasta into casserole dish. Pour carbonara sauce over the top and sprinkle with grated cheese.

Bake in oven 180C for about 20 minutes.

Will also try and attempt to make Turkish bread to go with it.

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Cakes / Re: Easy Muesli Slice
« on: November 13, 2011, 02:09:13 am »
In the oven baking as I type.

I used mango slices diced in the thermie.

However I had no almonds, so I used pine nuts instead. It hope that is OK.

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Chit Chat / Re: ADHD and ingredients to avoid
« on: November 13, 2011, 01:00:28 am »
Sorry forgot to mention that my lovely mother in law bought me a book called "Low to No Additives".
It contains recipes and a shopping guide to assist you on what products to buy.

It has become my most used cookbook. If only I was brave enough to try and convert the recipes to thermomix.

The book is available at most book shops and the website for further information is
http://www.lowtonoadditives.com/


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Chit Chat / Re: ADHD and ingredients to avoid
« on: November 13, 2011, 12:50:02 am »
My DS 7 was diagnosed with ADHD last year. I always knew he had it, but because he is well behaved and well mannered, everyone thought I was mad. He has just never stopped since he was born. He is on the go 24 hrs a day.

After he was diagnosed I started changing the way our family eats. I downloaded the numbers to avoid card on Fedup website, laminated it, and gave it to my husband, mother and mother in law. It defiantely helps. One day our lovely school decided to reward with children with GREEN icypoles  >:( That night I had tantrums and things been thrown around the house. I have never given my son anything brightly coloured and it sure tested the theory that colours in foods affect behaviour. He also won the book parade last year, and his prize was a small block of Dairy Milk Chocolate which of course he ate straight away. That night my DS had terrible night terrors.

I found that he still needs Ritalin to help him conentrte at school. I only give it to him in the morning as I found he couldn't sleep when having a tablet at lunch time. I also give him Eye Q tablet in the morning.

The diet has helped change his behaviour but not his hyperactivity. Haven't done the full RPAH elimination diet or gone totally failsafe and would love to onow how you go on it if you decide to try it.

Good luck hun, I know how you feel and what you are going through.

My thoughts are with you through this journey.

DG xxxxx

 

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Introduce Yourself / Re: DizzyGirl
« on: November 08, 2011, 07:11:30 am »
Judy,

So lovely to meet you. I so agree that working mums are supermums, but however much I would like to, I can not take all the credit. I must give credit to my thermie.


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Introduce Yourself / Re: DizzyGirl
« on: November 08, 2011, 06:50:56 am »
Cookie, yes I live in Australia. I live near Uralla northwest NSW.

Thank you Cookie and Wonder for your warm welcomes.

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Hi there fellow thermie lovers. My name is DizzyGirl for 2 reasons.....
The first is my dog (a Jack Russell) is called Dizzy. She was named by son who was 3 at the time and totally obsessed with Bob the Builder  :D
The second reason is because of this wonderful machine I call the thermie. It is definately the best purchase I have ever made and do not know how I would survive without it. I love it so much it often makes me feel dizzy.  :-))

 Sorry I do not have a picture of my kitchen to post atm, but it has country style white cupboards with brown tiles and chicken feature tiles splashed about. I am a mad chicken and rooster lover. I currently have about 10 chickens, 2 roosters and 4 ducks. I am about to get another 2 chicks this weeks. I love using my fresh eggs in my cooking and have become a great lover of poached ducks eggs.

It has been fun reading all your comments and I look forward to getting to know you all.

Take care

DizzyGirl xxxxx  :-*

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Introduce Yourself / DizzyGirl
« on: November 08, 2011, 06:34:37 am »
 :D Hello there fellow thermie lovers. I have had my thermie for about a year now and use it almost everyday.
As a busy mum to a wonderful boy aged 7 (well next week he will be 7) who has ADHD I find the thermie a great tool to help me prepare healthy, quick, easy, additive free food. I am a firm believer in Additive Free eating for the family.
My husband and I also own and operate 2 businesses (a mechanic workshop and a trailer and produce store) so anything that helps me at dinner time is a bonus.

I love the Easy Chocolate cake and make alot of rissottos when time is short. One of our favourites is Apricot Rissotto and Free Range chicken drumsticks (when time premits). I also love making tuna mornay as I always have a tin of tuna in the cupboard for those times when I am late home or have nothing much in the freezer. As we live 35kms away from the nearest shop, tuna mornay has become my lifeline.

So happy to meet you all and I look forward to sharing the joys of owning a thermie. So far I haven't converted any recipes (I am too scared they won't work out) and thank you all for having the courage to do this for me  :-*

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