Macaroni Cheese with Pumpkin:
At least 6 maybe 8:
Ingredients:
125g parmesan
125g cheddar
600g jap or Queensland blue pumpkin
2 stalks rosemary leaves
sea salt
1/8 verjuice or white wine
1 litre milk
1 bay leaf
80g unsalted butter
80g plain flour
1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
200g macaroni
75g goat's fetta

Preparation:
Peel and deseed pumpkin, cut into 2cm pieces, put on baking sheet,sprinkle with chopped rosemary and some EVOO and roast about 20- 25 minutes at 200⁰.Sprinkle the verjuice over and return to the oven for 5 minutes.
Grate parmesan and cheddar in TMX and set aside.(in separate bowls)
Heat milk in  , with bay leaf until it reaches 100⁰. Use   and reverse.
Set aside for leaf to flavour the milk and then remove leaf.
Melt butter in bowl 100⁰ for about 2 minutes at speed 1.
Add flour and mix at 100⁰ for about 2-3 minutes. Use speed 1.
While on speed 2 add warm milk through the MC hole. Cook at 100⁰ for about 7 minutes on speed 3.
Add nutmeg and parmesan to white sauce and stir until cheese is melted through. Remove and cover with glad wrap to stop a skin forming.
Cook macaroni according to the EDC.
When cooked add the macaroni to the cheese sauce and pumpkin. Stir through gently. Stir through the crumbled fetta. Put into a large casserole dish, sprinkle the cheddar over and bake at 180/200 for 10-20 minutes.

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Tips/Hints:
This recipe is from Maggie Beer but I have tweaked and Thermomixed it. The instructions are from memory so you may need to alter them. It freezes well.

members' comments

O2K - Made this tonight with a combination of pumpkin, sweet potato, carrot and broccoli.  I roasted the orange ones and quickly steamed the broccoli before adding it to the mix.  Delicious, and DS1 ate the lot - yay!  Also plenty of leftovers for DH for lunch tomorrow.  Thanks for posting the conversion.

JD - We had this for a light lunch Cookie and it was really nice.  I started off by cooking the total amount of pumpkin before I saw how many the dish served so then adjusted everything else down to 1/2 quantities.  I did put all the pumpkin in though. No complaints from DH about another vegetarian meal.

Snoozie - Absolutely beautiful. Very rich. Have plenty left to freeze.

KerrynN - We made this again the other night and to my surprise it seems to pass muster as a replacement for "Cheesy Pasta from the Box" - even with the pumpkin in it!

Like you Judy I am not overly fond of green capsicums. I prefer red or the best are yellow.

Me too and I would have even picked it up!
How come it's available on dealsdirect and not at TMX HO?

Thanks Meagan. Have done. Will get DD to enter too when she gets home from Melbourne.

I haven't forgotten. When I got home from Jo's TMX 'do' I was so disappointed when my 'mob' informed me that they didn't like the macaroni cheese. They said it was too sweet, which must have been the jap pumpkin. I've frozen the left overs for ME.

It's there now CP63-main meals.

There is quite a large article in todays West Australian or Weekend West whatever it is now called on the Thermomix and how Grace brought it out here. There's a photo of Grace and the TMX too.

We need superthermomix man who can whizz all over Australia and fix our machines at the drop of a hat.

Judy, how annoying for you. I can imagine that you were looking forward to the rice pudding too.
As for seniors moments, I feel better reading that others do silly things like I do.