Minestrone

[JuliaBalbilla]

Name of Recipe:  Minestrone – not tested

Serves:  6

Ingredients:  
500g various vegetables (carrots, beans, peas, chard, turnips etc)
50g extra virgin olive oil
50g onion
1 clove garlic
50g pancetta, in pieces
1kg water
1 Thermomix stock cube or salt
Pepper
50g rice
1 sprig parsley, chopped
50g Parmesan cheese, grated
50g butter

Preparation:  
Put the vegetables in the   5 seconds / Speed 4
If you want the vegetables chopped finer, process for a few seconds more
Remove from the   and reserve
Next, add the onion and garlic 2 seconds / Speed 5
Push the ingredients down into the   from the sides and the lid
Add the oil and pancetta 5 minutes / 100° / Speed 2
Add the water 8 minutes / 100° / Speed 2
Add the reserved vegetables, the stock cube or salt, pepper and rice 15 minutes / 100° / / Speed1
Finally, tip into a soup terrine, add the parsley, cheese and butter and stir

Tips/Hints:  If you wish, in place of the rice, you can use pasta to taste.  When chopping the vegetables, put the leafy one on top of the others.
 
Origin:  This is a translation of a recipe in Thermomix TM31 – Imprescindible para tu cocina which is the book supplied with Spanish TMXs.

[Cornish Cream]

I see you are on a roll posting recipes JB How your neck holding up?

[JuliaBalbilla]

Ha, thanks  CC, neck not too bad due to physio, but sciatica has reared its ugly head again which = strong pain killers = me being zombie.  I had hoped to get all the recipes in the 3 Spanish books translated by Easter, but no such luck.  Crap weather doesn't help either ...  I also want to have the time to actually make some of the recipes as well.. Refused to take pain killers today, hence on a roll!

JB

[Cornish Cream]

Ha, thanks  CC, neck not too bad due to physio, but sciatica has reared its ugly head again which = strong pain killers = me being zombie.  I had hoped to get all the recipes in the 3 Spanish books translated by Easter, but no such luck.  Crap weather doesn't help either ...  I also want to have the time to actually make some of the recipes as well.. Refused to take pain killers today, hence on a roll!

JB

Oh noooo sciatica, poor you.Totally agree with you about the weather

[obbie]

Julia, have you gone to a remedial massage therapist for your sciatica, It usually works in one treatment.
Very easy to treat.


Sending hugs.

Robyn

[JuliaBalbilla]

Hi Robyn, when I had a very bad bout of it a couple of years ago I went to a local McTimoney chiropractor and they did wonders, although it took five visits and had to walk across a snowy field to get there.  Unfortunately they have now moved out to some barn in the sticks and have no way of getting there.

What I am getting now is nowhere near as bad as before and is gradually getting better, so taking less medication.  Thanks for your concern 

JB

[judydawn]

Well it's good to hear it is not as bad as it used to be JB - don't push yourself with the translations, slowly does it if you are not feeling the best.  It does help to take your mind off it by doing something though doesn't it 

[JuliaBalbilla]

Thanks JD, it certainly is much better, but sciatica or no sciatica, I cannot loll around doing nothing, plus I forget my Spanish if I don't keep reading.  Even when we had our two weeks of summer last month, I sat out in the garden revising Spanish grammar.  The next recipe I am going add, I shall actually try and make today 

JB

[obbie]

Julie, if I was closer I would treat you.

Hope you are ok.
Robyn

[JuliaBalbilla]

Julie, if I was closer I would treat you.

LOL Robyn and I think that if I flew over to Australia for treatment, my sciatica would get worse sitting on a plane for that length of time.  Always vowed that if I were ever to go down under it would be by boat.  Might take a lot longer but at least you can walk around 

JB

[obbie]

Rolling around on a cricket ball helps to relieve the build up of pressure, on the floor, as do stretches.

Hope this helps.

[judydawn]

However do you roll around the floor on a cricket ball    Picture please Robyn 

[obbie]

JD, quite easy.....

Lie on a hard floor with the cricket ball at the pressure point for sciatica in your butt.
It does help.

Sorry JD, Crazy but it helps relieve the pressure.
By the way, I am a remedial massage therapist too.

[judydawn]

You are a very talented person Robyn, one who can cook too 

[JuliaBalbilla]

Oh Robyn, thank you!  Sorry, did not spot your message, but thanks for advice :-)  Never thought of rolling around on balls will get one when next time I go into town.  I agree with JD, you are very talented.  Thanks again 

xx JD