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« on: July 28, 2012, 02:00:29 pm »
When I was just looking at your photo, I thought perhaps it was brewed tea you had used and not LEAVES! I didn't think of that while making the recipe, as I couldn't see the sense in then adding a liter of water to the already brewed tea. Not that the recipe actually said "tea leaves", but foolishly that is what I assumed.
Fortunately we had ginger and lemongrass lemonade and lots of other goodies at the high tea to enjoy, but we all had a good laugh about this disaster. Even after showing others the recipe, no one said I think it means brewed tea. We all thought it meant tea leaves
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« on: July 28, 2012, 01:50:07 pm »
Where do I get the Malaysian cookbook from???
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« on: July 28, 2012, 01:41:58 pm »
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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« on: July 28, 2012, 01:40:11 pm »
Thanks Judy. I posted on her facebook page asking her for a reply, so hopefully she sees that.
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« on: July 28, 2012, 01:09:48 pm »
Okay someone please explain where I went horribly wrong with this recipe? I had a high tea party the other day and attempted to make this, thinking it was yum and easy, but not so. As per the recipe here: http://www.alycealexandracookbooks.com/Free%20Recipes/Turkish%20Apple%20Tea.pdfIt says 200grams of earl grey tea. Now 200grams of tea is sooo much tea. I only had a 100gram bag, but even that was too much. Is it suppose to be 20grams? There was sooo much tea in the thermomix bowl that it was a horrible mess. And you could only put a drop into the coffee cup and then had to fill it up with hot water to totally dilute it. Even then it wasn't very nice. When it say "200grams" of tea, does it not mean tea leaves?
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« on: July 24, 2012, 08:03:15 am »
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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« on: July 24, 2012, 06:49:02 am »
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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« on: July 23, 2012, 07:25:20 am »
I tried this for the first time last night, after seeing it demoed at the TMX biggest morning tea in Perth. It is such a nice tasting recipe. And now the stock is in the fridge for next time. I used a 1.22kg chicken which worked fine, but I think next time, I will purposely look for a shorted fatter one, to make sure there are some left overs!
I didn't have any dark soy sauce (not sure what it was) so I used half kecap manis and half tamari.
I also have just acquired my second bowl, after Junes promo and it was awesome to use with this recipe. While the chicken was resting in the stock, I could cook rice and vegies in the other tmx bowl.
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« on: July 11, 2012, 02:39:37 pm »
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« on: June 15, 2012, 04:09:54 am »
I make this recipe a lot too as the kids just love making their own tacos/nachos. I follow the recipe but reduce the chilli a bit for the kids and add frozen corn kernels in with the kidney beans at the end too, to give it some more colour!
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« on: June 15, 2012, 04:04:09 am »
Just realised that no one had done a review of this. Since I have it often, here are my thoughts:
The quantity that the recipe makes, does me for 4 breakfasts, so I often just soak half or a quarter of the tapioca with water and coconut milk, when I have left over coconut milk from a recipe.
There is no way it needs 10mins in the thermie, after soaking all night. I usually cook mine for 4-5 mins max and add a bit more water as it is cooking, so it isn't totally gluggy.
I also don't do as many steps as in the recipe. Too much faffing around. I usually just make a quick batch of CADA (coconut, almonds, dates and apple). Throw all 4 ingredients in and turbo until all chopped up. Then remove the CADA and without washing the bowl, add the tapioca, butterfly, a little more water and cook at 90degrees for 4-5mins on speed 1.
When done, just put cooked tapioca in a bowl and put CADA on top with whatever extras you like (yoghurt, honey, agave etc).
I buy my tapioca really cheap from the Chinese/Oriental supermarkets. Look for the preservative free one.
If you need to reheat leftovers the next day in the microwave, just a little more water or almond milk or something to loosen it up a bit, as it goes really thick in the fridge.
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« on: June 12, 2012, 01:43:28 pm »
Ha ha, no, I don't have any hazelnuts... wonder if it would work with almonds!
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« on: June 11, 2012, 07:47:23 am »
Just thought I would check back in and see if the recipe has surfaced yet... no... There were about 30 odd consultants at the biggest morning tea, so hopefully one of them will know which recipe it was! My consultant wan't there, but I will ask her anyway if she can track it down. Hopefully someone in the mean time will produce it! It definitely had nuts in it, but no chocolate. It was a light little ball with a nut inside it. On the day someone said it was Luigi's 40 second biscuits. Perhaps it was, rolled into a ball instead of a flat biscuit, but with a nut in the middle of it. Thermomix Australia although said it was a nut cluster, just to confuse us all! I'll keep hunting.
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« on: June 07, 2012, 07:11:04 am »
Would love the recipe Faffa if you can find it!
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