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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Festive Seasons => Topic started by: hopefulcook on December 17, 2012, 05:26:23 pm
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Just wondering about traditional Christmas lunch menu plans - what are you doing in your Thermomix?
I always make the white sauce and custard for pudding, but that's it. Thinking this year I should try gravy? Maybe steaming veggies and I need a nice simple breakfast / brunch pastry too.
Any tips?
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We actually have a cold meal so I really can't offer advice. Sorry. I'm sure the gravy would be lovely and the custard as you said.
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I love the gravy in edc makes a lot, which I freeze in portion sizes.
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Just wondering about traditional Christmas lunch menu plans - what are you doing in your Thermomix?
I always make the white sauce and custard for pudding, but that's it. Thinking this year I should try gravy? Maybe steaming veggies and I need a nice simple breakfast / brunch pastry too.
Any tips?
Hoping hopefulcook, that you have downloaded my Christmix ebook?? Lots of menu ideas in there.
http://tenina.com/ebook-merry-christmix-recipes/ (http://tenina.com/ebook-merry-christmix-recipes/)
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MM's Christmas Menu
Xmas Eve: Spare ribs in a honey BBQ sauce. Served with a Potato Gratin and Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage
Xmas Day Breakfast: Brioche and freshly squeezed orange juice
Xmas Day Snack whilst opening pressies: Smoked Ham (Parma) and home made bread
Xmas Lunch: Roast turkey with stuffing, Roast Spuds, Parsnips, Peas and Carrots. Xmas Pudding. Minced Pies, Port and Stilton
Xmas dinner. Going to mother-in-laws to eat lots of nice things. She has a Thermomix, so I guess it'll be spinning away
Thermomix will be used a lot and I cannot wait. Start my 2 week holiday tomorrow!!!
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MM which bread recipe do you use?
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(http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/christmas/merry-xmas-smiley-emoticon.gif) (http://www.sherv.net/merry.xmas-emoticon-1568.html).......enjoy your well earned break MM
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Sounds wonderful MM.
Hope you enjoy your holidays
Marie
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It will just be the 2 of us for lunch so I'll do a rolled turkey roast & root vegies in the weber & steamed vegies in the thermomix. Won't bother with dessert apart from ice-cream.
MM what a day of feasting! Enjoy your break :-*
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I hope everyone has a wonderful happy Xmas, I'm going to my DD taking the leg of ham, she is having 25 , everyone is bringing something so hopefully not to stressfull for her.
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MM, your menu sounds delicious :D
I think we have sorted ours out now...
Table Snacks: Homemade chocolates, nuts, homemade crackers, cheese.
Lunch: Cold roast turkey, roast pork, prawns, garden salad, potato salad, pasta salad (?).
Dessert: Fruit salad, lemon syrup cake, Christmas pudding, brandy custard, homemade icecream.
I think that should be enough food! ;)
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Uni,
I use a my mum's recipe for my bread machine: Flour (white and wholemeal), sugar, powdered milk, sesame seeds, olive oil, salt, yeast and sunflower seeds. Delcicious.
As for the Brioche, I am going to be lazy and buy already made mix!!!
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sounds very nice MM is the recipe only suitable for a bread maker
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Everyone's menus sound amazing!
We are having lunch at our place with our immediate family:
Starters - cold seafood, spare ribs (my brother doesnt like seafood :-)))
Main - festive spicy pork belly, beetroot salad with honeyed pecans & raspberries (both from Merry Christmix), ham and another salad and baby potatoes
Dessert - raspberry, lime & white chocolate mini tarts (Merry Christmix again!) and a fruit platter
Will also bring out some nice cheeses and crackers at some stage. My husbands parents plus his brother have decided they are sleeping at our place Christmas night so might save that for the evening to serve with cold ham.
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You've put Merry Christmix to good use Kath - will watch out for your reviews later ;)
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I have been very organised and sorted my things out as what to do each day. I have made Christmas pudding cake pops, 2 types of fudge, fruit mince ( the pies are being done today) some small Christmas cakes for friends. Sunday I will take all the meat out of the freezer, cook potatoes, boil eggs, make jellies and custards. Monday I plan to whip out early and get market fresh fruit, I will then cook the turkey breast ( as Jamie's Turkey Wellington) , the pork roast. Make the salads and desserts.
I'll also do a dip or two. On Christmas morning all I have to do isa get DH to carve the meat. Do a couple of dressings and hey presto, all done except the washing up.
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Cookie!!! Please come and live with me!!!!!! (Just how organised can you get!! I'm green with envy!!!)
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No GF she has to come and live with me first I need lots of organising ;D
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All sounds very nice - thanks MM for the input as well as everyone else. Tomorrow morning I will write it all out and make a (smaller) plan for the next few days like Cookie. Will keep you posted.
Please keep ideas flowing....
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I am always making lists. I think it comes from being a chalkie as you had to be organises or your days were horrid.
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Christmas Eve: don't know yet - will have to be something easy, - then preparing the breakfast
Christmas Breakfast: blueberry and yoghurt muffins (already cooked and in the freezer), monkey bread and fresh fruit platter
Christmas Lunch: at my SIL place, it's a traditional cooked lunch and I am taking Tenina's olive oil lemon tart (SIL does trifle and MIL does Christmas Pudding), malt slice (to make today) and cookies and cream fudge. DH also gets a big ham each year as a gift from a client so We are taking that.
Christmas dinner: toasted ham and cheese sandwiches (using up some of that leftover ham!)
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Just wondering about traditional Christmas lunch menu plans - what are you doing in your Thermomix?
I always make the white sauce and custard for pudding, but that's it. Thinking this year I should try gravy? Maybe steaming veggies and I need a nice simple breakfast / brunch pastry too.
Any tips?
Hopeful check out quirky cookings blog for xmas breakfast ideas.. She has been posting alot of things for preparing the night before so just bake morning of..
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Happy holidays mm.. Enjoy the festive break
We are still working out our menu..
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Brunch pastry is my favorite. I often use it in breakfast. Really it will be a good breakfast.