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Diet / Brons Diet! Its working.....
« on: August 03, 2009, 05:54:49 pm »
Folks just to let you know 6 weeks and 6 kilos. I am sooo delighted, and I feel great! I know some of you are interested so I will run through the diet and then gradually post some of the yummy recipes when I get a chance, but I am sure that you can all use your imagination to make up gourmet low calorie meals with the help of our BIMBY!

Basically the diet is very easy, even easier with Thermomix! ;D ;D ;D ;) ;) ;)

Breakfast 2 wholemeal toasties or ryvita type with cottage cheese or turkey ham
1 small glass of freshly made juice, apple, pear, kiwi, orange etc about 200gr
coffee or tea made with skimmed milk, no sugar

Mid morn snack Fruit or fruit juice. About 200gr. Approx. apple,pear, peach, apricots, plums, cherries, strawberries, mandarins, melon, watermelon or a small tin of pineapple in its juice, no added sugar. (This is what I take to work every morning, as its easier to keep!)

Lunch Steamed veg or salad or soup, gazpacho followed by beef, chicken, white fish, oily fish (only 3 times a week) or shellfish.
low fat Yoghurt. Tea.

Mid pm snack Fruit juice or fruit

Dinner Steamed veg, soup, cream of.....,  Followed by either White fish, chicken, turkey, omelette, shellfish. Low fat Yoghurt. Tea.

Drink at least 1 and a half litres of water a day!
Use 20gr of Olive oil per day
Recommended veg: green leaf veg, brocoli, pumpkin, courgette, aubergine, celery, onion, spring onion, cabbage, cauliflower, mushrooms, endive, asparagus, lettuce, tomato, parsnip, turnip, cucumber, peppers, radish.
Veg like artichoke, brussel sprouts, green beans, peas, sweetcorn, leek, beetroot and carrots ONLY twice a week.
Oily fish like tuna, sardines, swordfish, salmon ONLY twice a week
Shell fish, unlimited.....prawns, oysters, squid, octopus, clams, crab, lobster, mussels etc
White fish: unlimited like cod, sole, monkfish, hake, haddock, trout, etc
Eggs: max 3 or 4 yolks a week (I only eat 1) but as many whites as you like. My freezer is full of egg yolks now to make ice cream for the kids! ;D ;D ;D
Meat: chicken & turkey no skin, can be roasted grilled or steamed, beef, rabbit. Hamburgers made of beef or chicken, sausages too!
No sugar, nuts, honey, jam, chocolate, cakes, biscuits, bread, pasta and potato.
NO alcohol! Only the occasional diet coke or alcohol free beer!
Try and do a little more exercise, like walk 1 hour a day. (I go swimming and do aquafitness 3 times a week)
Use lots of herbs, vinegar, garlic and spices to brighten your diet! And use your THX to make all your lovely soups and steam your fish and veg!

I will post some of the lovely recipes of things I have made. When I grill the king size prawns, I peel and save the bits and then make a lovely fish stock with that add some veg and some chilli! Divine!
Stuffed augergines, filled with meat and peppers (a bolognese type) and then grilled with diet bechamel sauce (made in THX) & low fat cheese. Lush!

Use your imagination its easy when you put your mind to it. In fact both me & DH are eating more now than before. We have just cut out the little snacking and bits and pieces, but we eat huge 3 course lunches and 3 course dinners, and we have both lost 6 kilos each! 1 kilo a week!
HAPPY DIETING!!

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Chit Chat / I'm back!
« on: June 18, 2009, 04:16:21 pm »
Hi everyone! Nice to be back....have lots of catching up to do with everything! Inbetween, home, kids, work and reading all that I've missed here, will take me a good week! Have missed you all! Germany was beautiful, and even better to see my brother, up, from down under! He flew home with me to Malaga for 1 night before moving on to next country and I managed to show him my Thx! He was quite impressed! Although not at the price! So I am sure he will be in need of a Demo at home or at work! Who does them in Canberra, to put him in touch?

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Special Diets / GF Potato Sponge Cake (also Dairy Free)
« on: June 07, 2009, 07:46:29 pm »
750g water
500g peeled potatoes, cut into pieces
4 egg whites
pinch salt
4 egg yolks
400g sugar
50g icing sugar


Place water in  *:, and potatoes in basket. Program 25 mins Temp Varoma speed 1. Keep aside, wash and dry  *: (unless you have 2 like me) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Preheat oven to 180º
Grease a cake tin 30cm diameter, or rectangular 30 x 20cm
Place butterfly in clean dry  *: and add egg whites, pinch salt program 4 mins, speed 3 and 1/2. Place aside too.
Remove butterfly, and without washing  *:, add egg yolks, sugar and potatoes, mix 10 seconds speed 4. Gently fold this mixture into the egg whites. Pour into dish and bake for 30 to 35 mins. Check with a skewer to see if its ready. Leave to cool down a bit before removing from tin, and sprinkle with icing sugar.

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Special Diets / GF Churros
« on: June 07, 2009, 07:35:01 pm »
500g water
280g GF flour (Schar Mix b)
1 teaspoon GF baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
500g oil to fry

Weigh out flour into a bowl and mix in the baking powder, put aside.
place water in  *: and program 4 mins Temp Varoma, speed 1
Add flour all at once and quickly mix altogether 15 seconds speed 6. Leave to stand 5 minutes. Pipe out thickly onto tray and can be frozen to use as you wish. Be careful when frying as they do spit a bit! ;) Use deep fat fryer or deep pan with a lid! And sprinkle with lots and lots of sugar!!! And dip in your hot chocolate! Mmmmmmmmmm!

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Special Diets / GF Caramelised Brioche
« on: June 07, 2009, 07:24:46 pm »
Brioche Dough mix
Ingredients
150g milk
50g butter (room temp)
50g sugar
30g fresh yeast
3 egg yolks
350g flour Proceli
pinch salt

Caramelised Brioche
Brioche Dough mix
200g sugar
lemon rind of 1 lemon no pith
200g butter (room temp)

Firstly make brioche dough. Add milk, butter and sugar to  *: and program 1 minute, 37º, speed 2.
Crumble yeast in to  *: and yolks, mix for 15 seconds, speed 3.
Add flour and program 2 mins, Knead. ::

Roll out dough, nice and thin, rectangular shape on a floured surface.
Place sugar and lemon rind in  *: and blitz 30 seconds, speed 5 to 10.
Add butter and mix 30 seconds, speed 3.
With a knife, coat the brioche with this lemon butter, then roll it up until its 3 cms diameter. Cut along (as you would a piece of foil or wrapping paper) And then cut this roll into 4 cms little rolls. Then repeat process. Until you end up with about 40 little rose buds! Place them in an oven dish (preferably glass) 20 x 25 cm approx, leaving 0.5 cm gap between each one. Leave them to rise in a warm place, until doubled in size, 1 hour.

Preheat oven 200º. Bake for 30 to 45 mins until all very golden and brown on top.

The photo looks beautiful in the book, a tray of 40 rose buds!
Might have to give this a go myself! :P :P :P

21
Soups / Garlic Soup
« on: June 07, 2009, 07:02:15 pm »
Sopa de Ajo:
Serves 6:
Ingredients:
50g olive oil
40g peeled garlic
1 tablespoon of sweet paprika
1500g water
salt to taste
4 eggs
some bread, thinly sliced (baguette style if poss)


Preparation:
Place oil in  *: and program 5 mins, Temp Varoma, Speed1. Add garlic and program 4 mins, Temp Varoma Speed 3 and 1/2.
Scrape sides down and add paprika and mix on Speed 3. Add water and program 20 minutes, 100º, Speed 1.
When finished, stop machine, add the eggs and bread and leave to stand a few minutes before serving. Serve immediately!

Photos:

Tips/Hints:
If you wish to make half the amount, just reduce all ingredients by half and reduce cooking time by 5 mins.

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Recipe Requests / Quiche
« on: June 03, 2009, 05:59:21 pm »
I really fancy making a quiche this evening for dinner. However, having 5 thermomix books and not one recipe, not too sure where to start. Don't suppose anyone has a lovely quiche recipe, just a simple cheese & ham/bacon one? ;)
Obviously not a very Spanishy dish? ???

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Drinks / Mojito
« on: June 03, 2009, 12:44:45 pm »
Mojito
Serves 6
Ingredients
150g lime juice
30g brown sugar
handful mint
200g white rum
50g soda or fizzy water
800g ice

Place in jug, lime juice, sugar and mint. Program 5 seconds, Speed 7.
Add rum, soda and ice. Program 20 seconds, speed 5 to 10.
Serve immediately.

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Drinks / Gin Fizz
« on: May 28, 2009, 11:28:43 pm »
Gin Fizz
Serves 4
Ingredients
200g Gin
80g lemon juice
50g sugar
150g ice
1 egg white

Place all ingredients in THX and program 30 seconds speed 5 to 10. Place in big glass beakers and serve immediately.

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Drinks / Gimlet
« on: May 28, 2009, 11:21:06 pm »
Gimlet
Serves 6
Ingredients
100g lime cordial
200g gin
200g ice

Place butterfly on blades, add ingredients. Mix 15 seconds Speed 2. Strain and serve in Martini glasses.

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Drinks / Margarita
« on: May 28, 2009, 11:18:21 pm »
Margarita
Serves 6
Ingredients
150g ice
200g Tequila
50g Cointreau
100g lime juice

Salt and lime slices to decorate glasses

Place all ingredients in THX and program 20 seconds Speed 5 to 10.
Wet rim of glasses in lime juice and place in saucer with salt to decorate. Fill glass with Margarita. Serve immediately.

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Drinks / Piña Colada
« on: May 28, 2009, 11:12:31 pm »
Piña Colada
Serves 6
Ingredients
500g Ice
350g fresh pineapple or 1 tin 500g pineapple in juice
150g sugar
1 tin coconut milk
100-200g rum
dessicated coconut to decorate glasses


Place ice, pineapple and sugar in THX. Blitz from 5 to 10 for 2 mins.
Add coconut milk, rum and mix 5 seconds Speed 3
Wet rims of glasses with water, and put upside down on a saucer with coconut on, to decorate.

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Desserts / Instant Strawberry Foam
« on: May 28, 2009, 05:48:30 pm »
Strawberry Foam:
serves 4:
Ingredients:
300g frozen Strawberries
150g icing sugar
2 egg whites and 2 teaspoons lemon juice

Preparation:
Blitz sugar to make icing sugar, then add strawberries and blitz on 6 for 30 seconds. Scrape down, place butterfly on blades, add egg whites and juice all in together! Program approx 2 mins speed 3 and 1/2! Delicious strawberry foam! Wow! Can be frozen, or apparently can keep in fridge for a while too. Although have not managed to have any leftovers yet to experiment!

Photos:

Tips/Hints:
Can be made with other frozen fruit, like pineapple, peach, banana and mango. Not too sure about other fruits, would like to try out with granny smith apple, bet that's lovely!

Members' comments
Rowyfo - I tried this with mango, ooh it was nice indeed.

Gralke - A friend shared this recipe in another (portuguese) forum I visit and I have made this many many times
wonderful.  I always add a frozen banana to make it creamier - did it once to make up for too little strawberries and now we prefer it that way.

brazen20au - i did an extra 2 mins at speed 4 and WOW and YUM and DROOL!!!!! kids all love it too! yay!!!! This one would be PERFECT for demo's.

JD - I made this today as an extra dessert and it worked out beautifully (even though I forgot to put the banana in it).  However the 3 grand-kids didn't like it . I enjoyed it and DH ate all his but didn't comment.  After the first family left DH decides to tell me he REALLY liked it and couldn't understand why the kids didn't.  Wish he had said he liked it in front of them though. Put the leftovers in the freezer then the next lot of visitors got it too, albeit in a frozen form.  They all loved it - GD and baby GS gobbled theirs up. How different families are - first lot were DH's, second lot were mine.

Gert - Too easy and delicious.

cookie1 - We loved it. I actually used only half the quantity of sugar and I froze the bit of strawberry foam that was left. It makes a lovely ice-cream, it doesn't set really hard and is easy to serve. Very nice and another use for strawberry foam. I'm going to try mango in the next few days, as foam and ice-cream.

Chelsea - The fruity dream recipe from the EDC (a very similar recipe) has just 60g of sugar and I find that sweet enough.

Meagan - yummo just made the strawberry and banana combo mmmmmmmm. Thanks Bron.

Shayla - When I make mango or pawpaw sorbet I add some lemon rind to the sugar and usually put half a lemon in too - this would probably help make the mango foam less sweet?

Nay-nay - We loved it here!! Thought it was little like crepe filling so made crepes to wrap around it and fresh strawberries on top. MMmmmm!

Sundari - made the strawberry and banana foam - strawberries weren't frozen so did an extra 2 min on speed 4 and came out just like the photo's. Would also reduce the sugar next time as it is very sweet. Have frozen some to try that tomorrow.
The foam kept well in the fridge ( haven't tried the frozen portion yet) and was very nice on my scones instead of jam and cream.
This makes great light fluffy dairy free ice-cream both the strawberry and orange versions tried so far.

Sim - I just made banana foam! So lovely and creamy... with no dairy, yay. It would be nice with vanilla. I just used sugar, frozen banana, and egg white. I didn't measure anything either, lol!  It was really yum. I was wondering if it would work with frozen yogurt cubes instead of fruit. I can eat yogurt but not milk, so I am curious. Might give it a go soon.

cookie1 - I freeze the leftover Strawberry foam and then eat it as soft serve ice-cream.
Try fresh banana with frozen yoghurt cubes or if you use both frozen add a bit of liquid yoghurt to help it blend.

Thermomixer - 70 % frozen and 30% liquid is the general rule ( I think - but don't quote me).

mel81q - This is a great recipe - having had a few failures, i was pleased to say that this tasted absolutely lovely and it looked just like the photos. Even my fussy brother in law went back for thirds - needless to say everyone else was disapointed there wasn't more!!!! Thanks for a great recipe.

CarolineJ - Made this today, OMG it was divine!  Will probably reduce the sugar next time though.

Angela - I made this tonight with frozen raspberries, very nice indeed but very rich! I might try the Fruity Dream in the EDC next time and see how it goes with one egg white.

ILB - My goodness!!!! This is divine!  Mum and I sat there thinking of so many other uses while we enjoyed a bowl each....
You could blind bake some little pastry cases, when cooled, add some foam and top with a little bit of chosen flavour fruit as an easy dessert/finger food/work morning tea idea... or on piklets
Used in a sponge as the filling in between the layers.
Use instead of cream in the butterfly cakes.
Fill a chocolate basket with this and matching fruit for a divine dessert.
Loved the scones with this idea instead of jam and cream. Would be wonderful in crepes.
DD didn't like it originally but ate it frozen (on the promise of home made vanilla ice-cream to follow).




















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Special Diets / GF Orange Sponge Cake
« on: May 26, 2009, 01:10:54 am »
This was nice too...

Serves 6
Ingredients
200g sugar
3 eggs
1  whole juicy orange (no pips)
100g butter
1 yoghurt or 100g milk
1 sachet of baking powder (GF)
pinch salt
200g fine corn flour

Preheat oven to 180º
Make icing sugar, 30 seconds speed 9.
Add eggs and orange cut into 8, Blitz 30 seconds speed 9 and then program 1 minute 37º speed 2
Add remaining ingredients and mix a few seconds speed 4.
Place in greased tin and bake 30 mins

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Special Diets / GF Poppy Seed Loaf
« on: May 26, 2009, 01:00:56 am »
Makes 1 kg
Ingredients
450g water
20g lard or sunflower oil
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon vinegar
30g fresh yeast
250g Proceli flour
250g Schar Pan (Mix B) flour
2 tablespoons poppy seeds
pinch salt

Place water, oil,sugar and vinegar in THX and program 2 minutes 37º Speed 2
Add yeast and mix 10 seconds Speed 3
Add flour, poppy seeds and salt. Program 5 mins Knead
Place into high loaf tin (greased) Smooth surface and brush with a mixture of oil and water. Laeve to rise until doubled in size, approx 40 mins. Bake in lowest part of oven for 30 to 35 mins.

I tried this bread at the cooking class, very very delicious, we had it toasted and I could taste no difference to a gluten bread!


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