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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Recipe Book Recipe Reviews => Topic started by: maddy on February 11, 2012, 10:17:53 am
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This pie is lovely and refreshig, not overly sweet, but enjoyable after a spicy or heavy meal.
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/nachothecat/16f14011.jpg)
I loved the simplicity of the pie base, and had a great nutty taste.
There is a lot of filling, and I managed to make 2 pies from the filling, using a standard sized pie plate.
I would suggest you use a high sided dish, or a spring form pan.
Would make again.
5/5 from me :)
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Yum, that looks really nice Maddy. It is one of the recipes I have earmarked to try and your photo has just bumped it up the list.
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The lighting wasn't too great, so will try and take a clearer shot tomorrow with some natural light.
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Maddy it looks delish. As do all of your photos.
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Yes it does look good. I asked on another thread what it tasted like, so no need to answer now that I've seen this. :D
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I candied some limes this morning to pop on top......UGH!.......limes went in chook scraps :P
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It looks just like the book pic Maddy…yum, love that crust!
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Where can I get the recipe from ??
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Where can I get the recipe from ??
For Foods Sake can be purchased at http://tenina.com/store (http://tenina.com/store)
The recipe is one of the desserts in the book.
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Maddy thanks for the tip abut the filling. I bought double the walker bscuits & made 2 pies.. In the fridge hoping they will set. I could not get my low fat cream to form soft peaks ??? I remeber I had problems with the cream before.
Any tips anyone?
The mixture asted devine.
H :)
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I didn't know you could beat low fat cream Hally. ???
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You obviously cant but I keep trying :o ??? >:(
Hope it sets OK
H :)
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Low fat not so great for whipping sorry, maybe dissolve and add some more gelatin.
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Both pies in the fridge, see how they go. They have firmed up a bit, so goping they will be OK
H :)
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Set fine, absouletly delish. :D ;D
H :)
OK, have to admit my near miss medical emergency. ???
Had pie on bench, cut into pie, had to be strong as firm. Cut a slice, put knife under at the side of dish, oh well pie flipped, knife flipped & my life flipped. Knife hit chest, pie hit floor, I screamed, DH asleep on couch, ds rushed over, ds sent alarm off to to dh. Dh sad he woud deal with it all, dh sat on chaise longe with plate of pie ??? ??? Wheres mine I i said, dh said, sawpiece mssing, thought youate that :-)) :o ???
?i said did you see piece on floor, oh yes thought that was another piece ???
H :)
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Oh Hally, my heart just stopped reading that. I hope you are OK.
You deserve a nice soothing cup of tea and some homemade pie....
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Yes still here, not going to kark it cooking, too much fun cooking :)
H ;)
DH just said, well maybe you shoud tell veryone when
I came home to what loked like a murder scene.
Mmmm well was on a high dose of wharfrin, had some chorizio sausage, needed to take skin off, wasnt looking, sliced finger instead of skin. Mmm ddnt hurt intally, but OMG the blood, it wud not stop. I went from kitchen to lounge to bathroom to bedroom, colecting more & more towes, blood every where, CSI come on down ;D, phoned Dr told to get stitches, but managed to stop bleeding, about 5ft f towels on fingers, arrm etc. DH & ds came home, ds freaked said did someone shoot you mummy, dh said, what hapeed? I sad jst blood blood blood. All OK but finger still not normal.
Oh the joys of cooking, they shoukd have body part awards ;D
H :)
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Life is never dull in your house Hally, glad to hear you weren't stabbed. Glad to hear the pie turned out well too.
Hey, you look after yourself, I can't come over and stay with you if you're not there - the boys wouldn't look after me like you would ;)
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Never ever dull here, dh just sighs.
Its OK jd ds will look after you well, he s full of fun & excitemnt.
Never the same day here :)
H :)
But if you want a peaceful visit dh can provide that :)
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I made this pie when we had friends over for dinner and it was real hit! Mind you, I have loved every recipe from this AMAZING cookbook! I used plain yoghurt, some sugar and vanilla bean paste as all the commercial vanilla yoghurts had too many thickeners/artificial sweeteners for my liking. Because my 5 yo son is GF I used 2 packets of Macadamia shortbread for the base - saved me some time (available at Woolies in the gf section). His comment "I love the 'ground' mum" cracked me up as he won't eat the bickies normally. ;D
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Made another this morning.
A colleague at dh's put a request in for this as she loved it so much. She gives me limes & chillis from her garden. So I made it as a thank you.
Made the full amount of base & 1/2 the lime mixture. Also had 55g of lime juice instead of 45g, tastes WOW, now wishing I had made one for us, but not in our budget this week.
H :)
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Hally I missed reading about the 'murder scene'. I do hope everything has healed up beautifully by now and that the scar isn't toooooooooooooo big. :-*
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So can someone explain to me where I went wrong here:
I made this today, without the base, as I just wanted to put the mousse into little cups for a high tea party I am having on Friday.
All was going well, the mixture tastes great, however the gelatine that I poured boiling water over at the beginning, as per the instructions, was all solid by the time I went to put it in the mixture. So I put it in anyway, hoping it would dissolve into the mixture, but it didn't. So even after all the mixing, the mousse has little clumps of solid gelatine all the way through it and I guess is not going to set properly. As nice as it still tastes, a lumpy liquid mousse is not ideal to serve to guests!
Did I leave the gelatine in the boiling water too long?
Should I have just mixed the gelatine up with boiling water at the end and added to the mixture immediately?
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Hi there,
I am imagining that at some point you were distracted and this took longer than it should have, between putting gelatine in to hot water and the blending of it through the mixture. As it only does take a little while to soften, you could just do it before you are ready to add it and blend it for the 20 secs…but make sure it has dissolved in the water. The other thing is perhaps you did not use enough water?? (Not sure, but just a suggestion.) It should not be a paste, but more like a thick liquid…does that make sense?? Hope so….good luck and let us know how the little ones turn out…sounds so cute!
:D
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Thanks Tenina. Yes I thought it must have been too long, since someone arrived at the house to fix the door and then I had to juice the limes, etc...! I used 50grams of water as it says in the recipe.
So I am off to the shops now to buy some more ingredients. This time I will dissolve it just before I add it to the mix, to make sure it isn't a solid lump.
Hmm, what am I going to do with all that lumpy mousse. Wonder if the kids will eat it!?
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Oh dear,
Why don't you try turboing it to break up as many lumps as possible and then turn it into icrecream or a frozen dessert?
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Can you perhaps push it through a sieve to make sure you get rid of the lumps pf?
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Can you perhaps push it through a sieve to make sure you get rid of the lumps pf?
This will work… oops :O
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Thanks guys. That is what I did end up doing, after telling a friend about the disaster, before I had seen these replies.
I sieved out the lumps (they were not all all able to be blitzed, as I had tried many times!!) and then added a bit more gelatine back into the mixture for it to set. Everyone loved the end result!
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Glad you had success in the end pf.
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I have made this recipe twice now. The first time I made it I also had gelatin lumps in it but it still set. I made this again last week and with the advice on this forum did the gelatin right at the last minute before adding it in. I was in a hurry and running late to get to our friends for dinner. I had it all made in 1/2 an hour. I did the base and popped in the freezer trying to cool. Unfortunately it wasn't cool enough for me to put the mousse on so I put the mousse in the thermoserver and took the base separately. When we arrived at our friends house I put it together and put it in the fridge. IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. My friends had just purchased a thermomix and were excited to try this recipe themselves. Thanks Tenina for a great recipe 5/5.
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Thanks for the hints.
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Good thinking MrsKK! Thanks for the review and tips! Exciting for your friends to see something so special from the TMX - have they joined the forum yet? :D
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Wow, your story had me worried for a sec Mrs KK, I would never have thought to do all that. I make it well in advance or not at all, as it really does take so long to set…
Glad there was a happy ending!
:D
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want to make this for today, dont have butter shortbread only shredded wheatmeal biscuits, don't have macadamias but DO have hazlenuts, walnuts, pecans, cashews or almonds.. Dilemma, do I go to the shops again or do I make do????
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I would just make do. The lime will taste fine with the shredded wheat biscuits, and just choose whichever of the nuts you like the most.
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Turned out OK with the biscuits I had and I used a combination of nuts. I also put raspberries on top and drizzeld with berry coulis, not sure if I would make this one again, I might try the lime cheesecake next !
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I made this today to take out for dinner tomorrow night. It looks exactly as the picture and tastes lovely. As Maddy said in the first post it isn't heavy and not too sweet.
I made a large pie to take out and a mini one to leave home for DD.
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Made this for NYE party. Quantity enough for 25cm pie plate. Very light and refreshing (feels "healthy in spite of all the cream!)
Loved crust. Will try this crust with Strawberry Meringue Cake, which I loved the filling for but found my crust set hard as a rock!