What are your top 10 recipes?

[djinni373]

So many great dishes to choose from but this is the family's top 10 main meals so far. All can be stretched with loads of extra vegies or salad or quick bread rolls or whatever else I can think of to feed the five of us.

Spaghetti Bolognaise (EDC)
Shepherds Pie (EDC)
Lasagna (EDC)
Homemade Pizza (Dough from EDC)
Beef stew with buttermilk dumplings with loads of extra veg and fresh herbs (Budget Busters booklet)
Meatloaf (with lots of blitzed vegies) done in the oven with TMX potato mash and steamed veg (Forum)
Gourmet beef casserole (Forum)
Beef and Guinness stew (Forum)
Chicken and cashews with coconut satay sauce and coconut rice (Forum)
Baf65's Creamy chicken and vegies in the varoma (Forum)

Note to self: need to find more TMX fish dishes   

[Vivaroo]

Bump!  I really should start menu planning, if I could come up with a top 10 list that would be a massive help. Will look through everyone else's top 10 to get some ideas.

[quirkycooking]

That is a really great way to start menu planning - list all your family's favourite meals! Here's some more ideas here on how to menu plan: http://quirkycooking.blogspot.com/p/how-to-menu-plan.html

I'm thinking of starting a link-up on my blog of Thermomix weekly menu plans - anyone interested in joining in? Gotten slack with planning, and I always do better with it if I put it in writing where I feel accountable to stick to it!!!

[tarasis]

Quirky, I am interested though unsure how well I'd do at it.

As to the top 10, haven't really cooked enough to ,are that yet

Chicken in Yoghurt (Indian Cookbook)
NayNays Scones (forum)
Crispy Chilli Beef (non TMX but posted in forum)
Chocolate Ice-cream  (Tenina blog)
Thin and Crispy Pizza Dough (forum) & Pizza Sauce (forum)
Meatballs in Tomato Sauce (forum)
Garlic Steamed Rice (forum)
Poppyseed and Lemon Biscuits with Lemon Sugar (Thermovixens website)
{Edit} Minced Tart (as in meat pie, not Xmas sweet pies), - Pastry (forum) and filling (converted recipe to TMX but i haven't posted it yet, still tweaking)

Others cooked and liked but not sure they are in my top 10 yet

Honey Soy chicken (was yummy but too strong if eat more than a portion size)
Butter Chicken (first attempt was messed up due to messed up Tikka paste, cooking again tonight)
Chicken Korma (from Indian cookbook, I find it's missing something though wife loves it)
Honey Mustard Chicken (found it a little too mild/ taste not strong enough)

I have a mile long list of things to cook that would likely go into the top 10

[hools003]

Tarasis, I always add garlic in the honey mustard chicken and double the mustard and chuck a bit more turmeric in for more flavour.
That is one of our favourites but haven't made it for a while because my middle son doesn't like it 

[tarasis]

Tarasis, I always add garlic in the honey mustard chicken and double the mustard and chuck a bit more turmeric in for more flavour.
That is one of our favourites but haven't made it for a while because my middle son doesn't like it 

Thanks for the tips Hools003, will give that a try. I have a similar problem to you, neither of my kids would even try it when I last cooked it (back in January, I had the left overs from it in June). Neither are into sauces ATM, so with things like Crispy Chilli beef my son will eat the Crispy Beef but not the sauce (and daughter neither bit)

[johnro]

I'm thinking of starting a link-up on my blog of Thermomix weekly menu plans - anyone interested in joining in?

Great idea Jo your blog is often the inspiration injection for me!!!!    

[Vivaroo]

Jo I love hearing how other people organize their lives, look forward to reading your meal plans.

[Lellyj]

This is a great thread--thanks for bumping!  I love CP's favourite recipes too and refer to that list often (thanks CP )

Off the top of my head and in no particular order:


Johnro's banana cake
Bimby Chocolate cake
Faster than a packet cake (all forum)--Make one of these 3 every week

Tuna Risotto (forum)
Farfallina's zucchini cream sauce (forum), prefarably served with ricotta gnocci (Vegetarian book)
Chelsea's Tuna strudels (forum)
Chicken Kiev (forum)
Cyndi O'Meara's vegetarian sausage rolls (forum and TMX recipe community)
Lentil Bologanaise (forum and Quirky Jo's blog)
Creamy chicken and brown rice soup (forum and Quirky Jo's blog)
Judydawn's carrot and zucchini fritters (forum)

Ooops, that's 11 . . . oh well!

[dede]

Let me think. What do I make the most.

Chicken Kiev is a favorite
Non fried rice ( quirky Jo)
Beef stroganoff
Honey mustard chicken
Bimby chocolate cake
Dede's choc chip cookies
Johnro's vanilla slice
KFC chicken
Vegetable chowder
Gourmet beef casserole
Stickydate pudding from EDC
Dede's chocolate crunch
Steamed veggies
Worcestershire sauce
Tomato relish
JD's mayonnaise
French onion soup mix
Double choc chip muffins
Fudgy wudgy cookies
Lasagna from EDC
Cheese and bacon rolls
Cinnamon scrolls
Thin and crispy pizza dough
Home made pizzas
Custard from EDC


Oh my I could just go on and on. 
I have a folder containing our favorite recipes that we have often.

[DizzyGirl]

My (and my family) Top Ten Thermie Recipes.

Easy Chocolate Cake (EDC)
Bechamel Sauce (EDC) for my chicken lasagne
Custard (EDC)
Tuna Mornay (forum)
Pasta Carbonara (from Recipe Community)
Apricot Rissotto (yet to try and steam drumsticks in varoma)
Chocolate Brownies (forum)
Honey Soy chicken wings (forum)
Banana, Date and Walnut Bread (EDC)
Making my own castor and icing sugar


This is all I cook in my thermie.  I am about to start going through my TM cookbooks and choosing something new to make each week. As my cooking confidence is increasing (thanks to thermie) I need to start using the Varoma. Never used it since the demo 

Can anyone suggset eay things to start me on my way?

P.S. DEDE...... what Fried Rice and Honey Mustard Chicken recipes do you use?

Thanks
Embarrassed DG xxxx

[tarasis]

Tarasis, I always add garlic in the honey mustard chicken and double the mustard and chuck a bit more turmeric in for more flavour.
That is one of our favourites but haven't made it for a while because my middle son doesn't like it 

Hools003, just to let you know. I followed your advice and it worked a treat, thank you!

[Cuilidh]

DizzyGirl, try this for your first varoma meal.  It's Quirky Jo's chicken and cashew recipe.  You'll see references to it all over this forum, it is ABSOLUTELY THE BEST meal, really easy and super tasty.  I'm pretty sure it was the first meal I attempted in the varoma as well and it has never failed.  DH always asks for it and he thinks it is restaurant quality (and with my cooking, that's quite a compliment - especially seeing as his mother was a professional cook!).

For a tasty dessert, try Chookies Sweet Potato and Coconut Custards.

[DizzyGirl]

  Thank you Cuilidh, it looks devine. I tried curried sausages from another forum and the sausages fell apart and was like curried mince. Not sure if it was because we use preservative free sausages. May need to do some modifications.

Going to steam fish in the varoma tonight.

DG xxxx

[quirkycooking]

Thank you Cuilidh!! That's very sweet of you
I love reading everyone's favourites - gives me some different ones to try... Will add a couple of new ones to next week's menu!