I checked my freezer again this morning to see how I was going in my clean up efforts.  Only 3 lots of meat left in there but 6 ready to go meals still.  How handy are they going to be when I have baby GS here for a week from next Thursday.  Oh, happy days, no cooking which means I may just manage to cope for the week.  The meals I have in the freezer are -

Chicken cacciatore casserole - will serve with some frozen rice
Beef enchiladas/salad
Pork ragu/pasta
Meat lovers pizza
Thai Pork, veal and corn cakes - ready to cook in the oven with some oven fries/salad
Cottage pie base/need to do the mashed potato

Thank goodness I concentrated on the meat and not the ready cooked meals.

They warn you about that and suggest you don't leave it alone whilst kneading bread grandma.  Now you can see why   I have had my DH sit and watch mine if I want to duck off for a couple of minutes.

Hi Carolyn, hope you are keeping well.  Have a look here and click on recipes for goat meat.

www.cootamundrakid.com.au

Exactly CP63, this is the most important lesson to learn.  Read the recipe carefully

They are trying to keep you all fit and healthy Thermomixer.

Name of Recipe:Chicken Cacciatore Casserole
Number of People:4 serves
Ingredients:
600g chicken thighs, (weight after skinning and defatting) Cut into 3cm pieces
1 medium onion, quartered
1 clove garlic
60 mls white wine
400g can crushed tomatoes
250g potato, peeled and diced 2cm
120g carrot - 1/2 cm slices
150g mushrooms, thinly sliced
50g red lentils
100g reduced fat natural yoghurt
1 dessertspoon cornflour
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
S & P to taste

Preparation:
Place the chicken pieces into the varoma bowl & set aside.
Place onion and garlic into TM bowl and chop 3-4 seconds on speed 5.
Add 10g oil and saute 4 minutes 100^o on Reverse, speed 1.
Add wine and cook for 1 minute, MC off, on 100^o Reverse, speed 2.
Add tomatoes, potato, carrot, mushrooms and lentils.  Place varoma dish & lid on top.
Cook 30-35 minutes on Varoma temperature, Reverse, soft speed.
Add chicken pieces to the TM bowl and cook 5 minutes 100^o on Reverse, soft speed.
Season to taste with S & P.
Combine yoghurt, cornflour and parsley.  
Add to bowl and combine for 1 minute on Reverse, 90^o speed 1.

Serve with rice or mashed potato and green vegies.

Tips/Hints:

You could use chicken breasts but they are not as moist as thighs.  This recipe is suitable to freeze and comes from the Victorian Govt Go for your Life site.

members' comments

CP - Would include in this recipe to chop parsley 5 - 10 seconds on Speed 7 and set aside in initial stage prior to chopping onion and garlic (lazy me). A very nutritious and easily prepared family meal. Delicious. Added to my file and will make again definitely. Thank you JD, love your recipes.

cathy79 - Made this with a few "family preference" changes.  I left out the lentils and the carrot and added a large teaspoon of vegie stock instead of s & p to taste. Was very nice and made heaps.  The chicken was nice and moist and plenty of flavour.  Next time I think I'll leave out the potato (potato and rice or potato a bit much) and will try adding zucchini and capsicum halfway through cooking the chicken. Thanks JD - great family recipe and a different type of cooking for me, so opens up lots of casserole conversion ideas.

cookie - I made this and we all enjoyed it. Lovely for the cooler weather.

Pumpkin Pie - I made this but couldn't work out why I needed to serve it with potato or rice, as there was potato already in it, so just cooked up some brussels sprout to serve with it. At the end of cooking realised that the potato and lentils disintegrated.  It was really tasty and DH gave it the tick of approval, so next time will add either the rice or potato to serve it.

Pineapple freezes particularly well and doesn't lose it's colour either.  Love pineapple sorbet and will have to do my next fluff with it too.