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Chit Chat / Re: The Devil in the Milk - A1 and A2
« on: June 13, 2012, 12:13:02 pm »
a2 milk is the only type I have bought for the past 9 months. I can't get enough of it and it tastes delicious.

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I have an antique pharmacy glass jar that holds all my buttons. Heaven forbid if a) my kids ever get hold of it and it smashes or b) I need a button that is near the bottom! I love old buttons and collecting swatches of fabrics! There is a fantastic button shop near my work that stocks so many buttons that if I am ever stuck to find a match for a missing button I'm sure to find one there. Also, change of subject, but anyone with young kids- I highly recommend an app called Bugs and Buttons. Absolutely gorgeous educational games for kids with a recycling theme as well as all of the mini games are based around buttons and insects. Very cute and engaging.

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 last week i went to the supermarket twice- bought diced rump steak 2kg- one kg for my beef casserole (pressure cooker) which lasted 3 days and the other half for the hungarian goulash which also lasted 3 days. Plenty of lemons at the moment on our tree so have made lemon curd and the total of the two trips has been $84 including 1 kg of blue grenadier that i pan fried with vietnamese flavours and everyone was happy. I even found blocks of Lindt chocolate that were $1.88 each- i have to hide them from my DH (NOT ME!) as he normally gets to the chocolate before I ever do!

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I made the 'devil may care' scones on page 107 but this recipe hasn't been listed in the original post. The recipe made about a dozen. I can't eat them myself but I made them to take to friends for afternoon tea and everyone agreed that they were lovely. (they are good friends of ours so I know they would tell me the honest truth if they didn't like them). The scones were fluffy enough and either plain or with jam and cream, they all were eaten. Overall, good recipe and very quick.

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Condiments and Sauces / Re: Apple Purée
« on: June 11, 2012, 02:23:33 am »
Thanks for the recipe. I love making apple purée! Aren't the apples gorgeous at the moment? I can't get enough of them- my kids go through whole bags for school lunch boxes and on cold nights I make a batch of apple purée with cinnamon and stir a little bit of thickened cream in it for dessert or put a crumble topping on it and bake in the oven.Yum!

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Chit Chat / Re: Devondale Barista's Own Milk
« on: June 11, 2012, 02:19:27 am »
I bought this about 2 weeks ago in the supermarket and agree that it actually tastes really nice. I don't normally buy long life milk and only use it in a dire emergency but I was after some milk powder and found this in the same area at the supermarket. As my DH is a coffee fanatic and loves frothing milk with his coffee machine, I bought some to try particularly as it was on special!  I also loved the packaging- I'm a sucker for that kind of thing! I also have since bought a couple more to have as a standby in the pantry. I have to say that my favourite milk at the moment is a2- even though it's darn expensive I absolutely love the taste and I hate the generic supermarket brand milk at the moment- yes it is cheaper and given how much milk we go through in a week, I would save a lot of money buying it, but to me it just tastes so insipid and watery.

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Made this last night with gluten free flour to take to a BBQ. Just letting everyone out there on a gluten free diet know that gluten free plain flour worked really well in this recipe.  Lovely texture and the two cheeses worked really well. I didn't add spinach but I agree that would make a good modification to the original recipe.

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Babies and Kids / Re: Appealing soup for 2 & 4 yr olds?
« on: June 10, 2012, 01:54:35 pm »
Bubbles- THE number one rule with kids is to NOT call it soup!! I call my creations anything but! For instance, pea and ham soup is green gloop. Minestrone is witches stew etc- you get the idea. Same thing as I never refer to broccoli by name. My kids know it is broccoli but we call it green trees.

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Chit Chat / Re: Dumb question about lemon zest
« on: June 10, 2012, 01:46:33 pm »
I use a microplane grater- very sharp and very effective. Doesn't tend to grate deep enough to reach the pith, which you don't want. More importantly, I haven't grated my fingers accidentally on it yet, which is.a minor miracle in itself!

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Chit Chat / Re: Converting recipes BACK to traditional from TMX
« on: June 08, 2012, 11:50:34 am »
Totally agree with that! Sorry- it sounds selfish but I I don't think that a lot of things I cooked prior to the TM are superior to what I'm doing now so therefore I don't revert back to a lot of my old recipes

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If it's  the same recipe that I am thinking of then I think you could easily leave it out. Besides, the fun part is experimenting so even if you make it without and you don't  like it then you'll know for next time!

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Chit Chat / Re: Converting recipes BACK to traditional from TMX
« on: June 08, 2012, 03:42:23 am »
Panic??!!!! ;D ;D ;D

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I thought granulated sugar is just another name for white sugar.

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Depends how much is needed in the recipe- it might be there to give the bread density and texture so without knowing the specific recipe, I'm not sure if you could leave it out or not. You can buy polenta at any supermarket and if you specifically want maize flour I have seen it in the health food section of supermarkets but you should be able to buy it in any good deli also. Health food stores may or may not stock it depending on how big they are and the demand they have for it.

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Faffa's right- maize cornflour is definitely not maize flour. You would get two totally different results with your baking if you interchanged them!

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