What are you cooking today?

[Very Happy Jan]

..... we're having Chicken and Sweet Potato for dinner. Possibly with a mango foam to follow.

Yum Cookie1. what time do you want us over for dinner?

[cookie1]

You'll have to be quick.DD is having a tutor group here at 7, so all traces of food must be gone and so must we!!!!!

[Thermomixer]

Thanks cookie1 - at home at present and my TMX newsletters are at work.  Will let you know. 

[gertbysea]

I made Poached Cotechino with Wine in a recipe I found  at www.gourmettraveller.com.au I adapted it for the Thermomix and it as delicious. I wish I could now remember just what I did 

Gretchen

Sounds delish - did you poach it in the base or the Varoma?  a few hints

I actually poached the cotechino on the stove because it took 2.5 hours. I then kept it on top in the varoma while I did all the rest. The puy lentils took longer to cook than I expected. I chopped the veg and saved.I chopped the pancetta cooked it at 100 for about 5 min. Tossed in the veg and cooked for about 8 minutes .Then all the rest I did on reverse starting at varoma and reducing to 100. I started to write it all down so I could post it but then I figured not many people would be interested in cotechino and if they did most could probably figure it out by themselves. It would have made a dull looking picture and really more a winter food. Just one of those things you make once in a while.

I kept the poaching liquid and then poached a couple of beef cheeks in it. Again I did that on the stove as it took a couple of hours. Decadent. I love offal. I wonder where I can get some sweetbreads up here. I had a great recipe from the one of the 2 fat ladies( the smoker) I found in the Spectator when she had a clolumn. Took 3 days to make. I wonder where I put it.

Gretchen

[JulieO]

I made the 'custard' for the salted caramel maple icecream last night before bed and chilled overnight in the fridge.  I've just put it in the icecream maker to churn.  Can't wait to try it. 

[Amanda]

I made the 'custard' for the salted caramel maple icecream last night before bed and chilled overnight in the fridge.  I've just put it in the icecream maker to churn.  Can't wait to try it. 

You won't be sorry, Julie!  it is a big favourite here.

[cathy79]

I made a slice, some biscuits and some refrigerator biscuits that I haven't baked yet. Then did my Forget-Me-Bread and tried mashed potato for the first time. A bit sloppy, but deliciously smooth!

There's a few discussions on here about the best way to do mashed potato and I think the consensus was "not the EDC recipe".  So using ideas from this forum, I steam 750gm potatoes, add 100g milk and 1 tablespoon of vegie stock concentrate, butterfly about 10 seconds.  Deliciously smooth, not sloppy!

[cookie1]

Hope you're feeling better Amanda, did you get over to the wild west?

[Amanda]

Yes thanks, Cookie!
Flew over on Friday and back to Adelaide late on Monday night.
My cousin had a boat named after him as he has been rowing Master at Scotch for 20 years!!
We had a big weekend of food and drink - perhaps a little too much of both, so I took myself back to the gym today.
We spent a wonderfully lazy afternoon picnicking on the river on Sunday.  It was a very pleasant way to while away the day - the river is gorgeous, with enough traffic on it to keep us interested,  too!
It was great to see the rellies, although it will probably be ages before we get back again - the tyranny of distance!

[cookie1]

Good school Scotch. My dear brothers went there.(over 20 years ago though) What a wonderful thing to have the boat named after him, a real honour. 

[Thermomixer]

I actually poached the cotechino on the stove because it took 2.5 hours. ...... then I figured not many people would be interested in cotechino .....

I kept the poaching liquid and then poached a couple of beef cheeks in it. Again I did that on the stove as it took a couple of hours. Decadent. I love offal. I wonder where I can get some sweetbreads up here. I had a great recipe from the one of the 2 fat ladies( the smoker) I found in the Spectator when she had a column. Took 3 days to make. I wonder where I put it.

A woman after my own heart - love cotechino with lentils, beef cheeks and sweetbreads.  Check with your restaurants if the butchers don't know.  Sometimes they can add a little something to their orders from meat suppliers.  Vics meat in Sydney (now retailing as Victor Churchill Butchers ?) would be a certainty.  Veal cheeks and sweetbreads from White Rocks in WA are superb.

[Thermomixer]

There's a few discussions on here about the best way to do mashed potato and I think the consensus was "not the EDC recipe".  So using ideas from this forum, I steam 750gm potatoes, add 100g milk and 1 tablespoon of vegie stock concentrate, butterfly about 10 seconds.  Deliciously smooth, not sloppy!

Thanks Cathy 

[Thermomixer]

We had a big weekend of food and drink - perhaps a little too much of both, so I took myself back to the gym today.

Sounds like your health improved, but then suffered again  - good luck in the gym - should go myself

PS Dropped a bottle of wine into Momo - still haven't gotten there !!

[gertbysea]

I actually poached the cotechino on the stove because it took 2.5 hours. ...... then I figured not many people would be interested in cotechino .....

I kept the poaching liquid and then poached a couple of beef cheeks in it. Again I did that on the stove as it took a couple of hours. Decadent. I love offal. I wonder where I can get some sweetbreads up here. I had a great recipe from the one of the 2 fat ladies( the smoker) I found in the Spectator when she had a column. Took 3 days to make. I wonder where I put it.

A woman after my own heart - love cotechino with lentils, beef cheeks and sweetbreads.  Check with your restaurants if the butchers don't know.  Sometimes they can add a little something to their orders from meat suppliers.  Vics meat in Sydney (now retailing as Victor Churchill Butchers ?) would be a certainty.  Veal cheeks and sweetbreads from White Rocks in WA are superb.

Veal? Real Veal? I am gunna have to do some research and check out some butchers . Good advice Thermomixer. I did find some good chorizo by going to a restaurant and buying it there. Then I tracked down the supplier. Haven't seen real veal in years. I did see some LAMB shanks in Coles the other day that were about 30 cms long. Do they think we are stupid?  I love mutton so why not just label it mutton? 

It will soon be too hot for these sort of dishes so on to summer tucker!

Gretchen

[cookie1]

Gretchen, having grown up on a sheep and wheat farm I agree with you. Good mutton has a lovely flavour that lamb doesn't.


I haven't used Termite very much this week. We had mango foam last night and I made the banana loaf with walnuts. I think my oven temperature may be going crazy as I burnt it, the second thing in a week or so. Not like me. Must buy an oven thermometer and check it. .It's only 5 years old.