Green Olive Dip

1/2 batch of Mayo (EDC)
100 g of pitted green olives

Chop olives on speed 4 for about 4-8 seconds (until desired consitancy is reached).
Add Mayo and stir on Reverse speed 3 for about 20 seconds.

Yum!

Hi Leanne, we here just love dips. Two that seem popular with visitors are Fay's Capsicum sauce which you pour over a tub of cream cheese,  and Maggie's Artichoke Dip. 
Capsicum sauce.

1 small tin Capsicum
1/4 cup of vinegar
1/2 cup sugar

Place all ingredients into T.M bowl and cook until syrupy.    Probably 10 mins. at 100   .
Pour over a 250g tub of Philly cheese or similar.

This provides a sweet/sour combination which goes well with the cheese,   it also is very easy.   I've tried it with fresh capsicum but it is not as good.

Maggie's (Beer) Artichoke, green olive and lemon dip.

Warning-  this looks like green sludge but is absolutely delicious .

1 cup pitted green olives
2  tinned or bottled artichikes
1 tablespoon preserved lemon ( skin only) washed and rinsed well
1 tablespoon of salted capers, rinsed and well drained
1 cup of flat leaf parsley
1 clove of garlic
1 teaspoon mint

1/4 cup olive oil 1/4 to 1/2 cup of verjuice
salt and pepper to taste

Place all ingredients, except oil and verjuice, in T.M bowl and pulse until roughly chopped.
Incorporate oil and verjuice on   , until mixed in



Place all ingredients into T.M. bowl and cook until syrupy,  Probably 10 mins at 100     
 
 
 

Fruity Pear Mince Baby Croissant
Festive Book
Tweaking
I only made a half mix of this.  I also used my own fruit mince for the recipe. For the half mixture I rolled out two pizza size circles and cut each into 8, as evenly as I could. I used a pizza cutter and it sliced through the dough nicely. I didn't use bread flour, only plain flour as in the recipe and I used 1 teaspoon yeast for a half mix.

I loved these, in fact I would say I prefer them to fruit mince pies. (I made my pies with the same fruit mince and almond pastry)
The dough was easy to work with, even though it was very hot. I didn't ice mine or even put icing sugar on them. They were not overly sweet.  I got  16 out of half the recipe.

Flavour 5/5
Recipe 4.5/5

Little Steamed Christmas Puds
Festive book

Tweaking
Next time I make these I will leave the chocolate out and possibly chop the nuts a bit.

I made these and when they were cooked they were very 'spongy'. I turned one out and it flopped over. I hadn't covered these when I steamed them so I covered the next lot with baking paper, but they were the same. I left them to completely cool and they firmed up and were very easy to turn out. We had one each for dinner with custard and they have a lovely flavour. Not like the usual plum pudding, much lighter.  The citrus taste in them is vedry nice. I plan to freeze the rest and have them for Christmas

5/5

The thermomix had a picture and an explanation of it in the Gadgets page of 'The West Australian' (our newspaper) today. It was quite brief, as all articles on this page are. It gave the price, the website and explained all the things it could do.  More orders for Thermomix.

Rum Balls

Ingredients
125g butter
220g sugar
50g cocoa
75g mixed fruit
1 teaspoon vanilla
75g coconut, plus extra for rolling
5 tablespoons powdered milk
2 tablespoons rum
1 tablespoon milk, if needed

Method
Blitz the sugar to make icing sugar and scrape the bowl down.
Combine all of the other ingredients except the extra milk and extra coconut and mixed fruit. Speed 4/5 for 20 seconds. If the mixture is too firm add the milk.
Add the mixed fruit, Reverse, speed 2 for 10 seconds.
If mixture is soft place in the fridge until it firms up.
Roll into balls and roll in extra coconut.
Refrigerate.

Tweaking
You can add any extra you like to these. eg cinnamon or ginger.

Members' comments

sue purrb - I misread the recipe and added the mixed fruit before it got whizzed up but I really liked the texture so would probably do it that way again. I also reduced the sugar to about 120g and was very liberal with the rum. They were delicious! 
I have also blitzed the zest of an orange with the sugar and used Cointreau instead of rum. I reduced the sugar again and again blitzed the fruit so they were almost smooth. I also rolled the balls in dark drinking chocolate powder instead of coconut. Now I can't decide which way I like them the best! 

Rogan Josh-Red Meat Stew
Indian Cooking page 98

I found that when cooked this was very, very dry and in fact burnt in the dish, despite being watched fairly carefully.
If I make it again I will put in at least 200ml of water.

I would also mill the whole spices for much longer as I found there were bits of everything throughout the dish.

Score
Flavour 4/5
Recipe 2/5