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Recipe Requests / Ideas for a Birthday Brunch
« on: February 26, 2013, 02:19:56 pm »
Hi all,

Soon it will be my husband's birthday party (together with our teenager niece) and this year we are going to make a brunch.
Now, this is also the first year I have my Thermomix so I'd like to use it to prepare some things. The problem?? I won't have much time to prepare everything so I'm sure I won't be baking bread for example. The party is going to be on a Sunday and on Saturday before we have another family party.

So basically, what I'd like to ask all of you is some ideas of dishes I can start making during the week maybe and that could be kept till Sunday or dishes to make in the same day and that don't take much time  :)
We don't really have a theme or something similar, so there are no real restrictions.

I only started planning now and I'll be posting as well any ideas/decisions I come up with as I think your input can be much appreciated.

Oh, btw, we are 15 in total counting with 3 children under the age of 7.

Thanks already for your help.

Cheers,
Raquel

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Seafood and Fish / Bacalhau ŕ Brás (salted codfish)
« on: December 03, 2012, 12:35:07 pm »
Hello TM'rs,

When I introduced myself I said that I've done this recipe and someone asked for it, well... here it is. It's from the basic Book of Portugal for the TM31 (Bimby - As receitas Essenciais). Sorry I don't have a picture of it, but I'm sure someone will put one when they try it (or I'll do that next time I make it)  ;)

After writing the recipe down, I realized that it's really not easy to put it all down, specially with translating and trying to explain the ingredients and all. So, please let me know if you tried it out and your experiences with this recipe. Oh, by the way, this is a very good recipe for people who don't really like fish.


Bacalhau ŕ Brás
Serves 6
Easy / Takes 13Min


Ingredients:
100g olive oil
400g onions
2 garlic cloves
300g bacalhau - desalted and without any bones and shredded into small pieces) * see note
200g small stick chips (they look like shredded cheese -- if you can't find them in the supermarket, you can always cut some potatoes very thinly and fry them) -
6 eggs
salt and pepper
fresh parsley
100g black olives


1. Place the olive oil, the onions, the garlic and program 5 Sec / Speed 5.
2. Then 5 Min / Varoma / Speed 1.
3. Add the codfish and program 5 Min / 100° /  :-: /  Speed  ^^
4. Put the potato chips, program 3 Min. / 100° /  :-: /Speed 2.
5. Now take that out of the bowl into a big frying pan and turn the heat on (not to high)
6. Without washing the bowl, put the eggs into the bowl and program 10 Sec / Speed 2
7. Pour the eggs over the rest, mix all very well, season with pepper and adjust the salt (the codfish is naturally already a bit salty, but if you use fresh fish you'll need some salt for sure)
8. Just before serving, add the olives and the sprinkle it all very generously with chopped parsley.


* Note:
Bacalhau - I've seen here somewhere written "bacalao" - well, it's dried and salted cod
If you can't find it, just use fresh cod (or frozen defrosted first).
If you buy it salted, you'll need to let it desalt by putting it in a big (really huge) bowl with water (don't put pieces on top of each other) -- lots of water; preferably with skin up and then, leave it for 24h changing once or twice the water. After this you can freeze it or cook it.
To take the skin and bones, it's better to first boil it for around 3 minutes, then the skin comes out really easy and the bones as well. You'll have then your cod ready to use in this recipe as when you take the bones it will end up being already in small pieces.
 



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Introduce Yourself / Cheers from Belgium!
« on: November 13, 2012, 09:02:29 am »
Hello everybody,

I'm Raquel (or Trillium as my username says), a Portuguese living in Belgium for 7 years.
For my birthday I've received a Thermomix (from my parents in Portugal) and I'm in love with it. I've been taking a peek at this forum for a while and yesterday I made Isi's easy rolls which went pretty well (first attempt on bread ever!!) so I think I'll be taking many more recipes from here as well.

I'm still not very used to my thermomix (or Bimby as we call it in Portugal) but at least a few days a week I make something in it (it rests around 3 days a week) and I already have a couple of books here from Belgium as well as the basic Portuguese book.

So, I don't promise to add many recipes but I'll try to post something once in a while.


Cheers,
Raquel

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