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Chit Chat / Ziplist
« on: September 16, 2010, 05:37:27 am »
Hi there

I was just wondering whether anyone else has tried ziplist? its a recipe manager / shopping list internet based application. It syncs with your iphone and is free (for now anyway).  I have found it a useful way to keep track of all my internet based recipes and to do my shopping lists. It doesn't have a meal planner yet but apparently thats coming. 

anyway the point of my post is not to sound like a sales person for it but to say that I am starting to add in some of the ingredient lists from the thermo books (not the recipes just the ingredients, I hope thats allowed?) and I have made them publicly available.  So if you use ziplist already you can just search on 'thermomix' in the recipe search (as I type that 'thermomix' in at the end of each recipe title) and hopefully you can see them.  I have only done a few but will be doing more as time goes on.

cheers

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Recipe Requests / Oat milk recipe - does anyone have one?
« on: September 01, 2010, 04:22:43 pm »
I am after an oat milk recipe - if anyone has one can they pls let me know? I may try and convert Quirky Jo's fantastic rice and cashew milk recipe but not sure of the quantity of oats to use.  I can experiment but just wondering if anyone else has a recipe before I try. 
thanks very much

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Raw Recipes / Raw Creamy Strawberry Pudding - for kids
« on: August 25, 2010, 05:28:54 am »
I have been making this as desert lately for my kids as we are trying to reduce wheat and dairy a little (my husband and i have been eating the rest too!).  Its meant to be a yoghurt type treat.

Adapted from: Baby Greens (Lynn/Chrisemer)

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups (220g) fresh strawberries (or frozen, thawed) 
1 cup (120g) avocado ie one medium avo
1/2 cup dates pitted and soaked in 1/2 cup water for 6-8 hours (keep soak water)

Blend all ingredients - adding extra water, soak water or nut milk to thin.  I used sp 5 for 30-50 secs and didn't add any extra liquid.

You can mix through some finely diced strawberry at the end.  I just did it by hand with the spatula before serving it up.

My 3yo thought it was chocolate ;-)

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Recipe Book Recipe Reviews / Soutzoukakai with rice (meat patties) - Meat on the Menu
« on: June 03, 2010, 02:54:40 pm »
Recipe Name: Soutzoukakai with rice (Meat patties)

Book: Meat on the Menu

Tweaking details: The rice didn't cook - all the rice in the middle was virtually raw making me very upset as I had it sitting there for ages waiting to serve up, and then had to recook the rice and the sauce. I am not sure of the best way to tweak it - Not sure if rice can cook on 100 degrees?   I would make it again by putting the meat in the thermoserver after 30 mins and cooking the rest on varoma for 13 mins (after topping the water up to 1 litre again).

Maybe it was because I spread the patties out over the varoma dish and tray (the recipe said to just use the dish but they didn't seem to fit) so maybe it let more steam escape than it should have? Also I did 30g more rice than the recipe.  I did cook it for a few minutes extra, as I was paranoid about the meat cooking through, so it definitely wasn't a time issue.  I used medium grain white rice as per the recipe.

Review:  Despite  the rice problem and eating the meat almost cold it was good.  It is really easy and doesn't need many ingredients.  You get a tomato sauce, tomato rice and meat patties. My 9month old loved the meat, my 3 year old loved the rice and DH and I thought it was a really good mid week dish. 

I used minced lamb so can't comment on the mincing part of the recipe.  I cooked steamed veg on the stovetop but I would try and add them into the Varoma next time.  I would be keen to hear any other ideas as its a good concept.

Score: 4/5

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Introduce Yourself / New to forum
« on: May 03, 2010, 03:05:11 pm »
Hi everyone

I have had my TM for 5 months now but I only just worked how easy it was to join the forum.

I live in Perth, Australia, and I have a 3 year old and a 8 month old and I am loving the thermomix. I am interested in organic food and wholefood cooking, and trying to do that without spending forever in the kitchen.

 I find that I still spend just as much time in the kitchen as before but I am making a lot more, and more from scratch.  I was amazed that I could make my own ice-cream, jam, mayo etc with a young baby, especially as I am pretty slow in the kitchen and have never made those things before. 

My momentum has slowed a bit on these 'extras' so hopefully the forum will inspire me again (although my slowing down is perhaps more due to the 8 month old learning to crawl and constantly getting up to mischief in the kitchen - at least he has stopped crying every time I turn the TM on).

I have some questions on yoghurt and juicing which I will ask you more experienced users once I get settled in.

Look forward to chatting with you all
Ruth




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