What to cook for family dinner (they've never seen tmx before)

[baf65]

Eggs in Mustard Sauce

a similar recipe to the chicken one but using eggs, not sure Im thta keen on all those eggs but the sauce is nice!!

400g water
1 bay leaf
1tsp stock concentrate
8 eggs (whole in shell)
400g leek
800g pototoes

Sauce
200g leftover cooking liquid
200g cream
15g wholegrain mustard
15g dijon mustard
30g flour
30g butter
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp pepper


Put water, bayleaf and stock in TM bowl
Wash eggs and place into varoma
cut leeks into strips and place on top varoma tray
cut potatoes into cubes and place in TM basket

Assemble and the cook 25mins Varoma speed 1
Put leeks and potatoes into Thermoserver
Cool eggs under running water
Reserve 200g of the cooking liquid

Add rest of sauce ingredients to the cooking liquid , cook 4mins/90c/speed 3

Serve


Recipe from Lis Higgins

[Thermomixer]

Thanks baf65 - have put the chicken recipe in mains (with a little help from brazen) and Eggs in Vegetarian - ta.

[trudy o]

Had the chicken last night for dinner and used the changed mentioned.  It was beautiful.  will definately cook that again thanks
about to look up the apple crumble now thank you

[bron]

Trudy, will post the San Francisco for you!

[Thermomixer]

Cocktails are Daiquiri, Banana Daquiri, Piņa Colada, Margarita,Tequila sunrise, Gimlet, Gin Fizz, Pisco sour, Mojito, Caipirinha, Manhattan, Cosmopolitan, San Francisco (non-alcoholic) Let me know if you would like a recipe and I can post it for you!

If you get a minute not consuming eye-candy, could we get some of these in the Drinks section - Tequila sunrise, Gimlet,  Pisco sour, Mojito, Caipirinha in particular.  Love Mojitos in summer and never heard of a Pisco sour.  Pleeeease 

You could also knock up some dips for a starter. Take a pate with you, oh I love showing off! My DD said to me today...Mum, why don't you just open a restaurant? Always soooo much food in my house! We are 5, but all their friends end up here too! 

Dips are one of those things that really are quick and impressive - especially if you have all the ingreds ready for 2 or 3 like hoummus and a cashew/rocket/parmesan type dip. 

The idea of a soup while the dips are being consumed, then risotto is easy and most people have visions of standing adding little bits of stock and stirring for a long time.

Hard cooking for 8 adults in one TMX, but risotto or similar is easy. 

Sorbets really are dead easy and impressive - bit of fruit and ice cubes.  Two minutes later - voila!

Good luck.

[Thermomixer]

Have you seen the Instant banana and strawberry ice cream posted HERE - sure it would be a winner and simple !!!!!

[judydawn]

Still had some of that cheese sauce leftover from last week so decided to do the above dish again with a slight variation with the chicken.  Used the same chicken cuts (4 thin pieces) salted, topped them with some leftover capsicum & sundried tomato dip (pge 54 everyday cookbook), covered them with some thinly sliced pieces of a tasty, low-fat cheese and added them 12 minutes before the end of the cooking time of the vegies.  Yummo.  Which then made me think of being able to do a low fat version of chicken parmigana this way too in future.

[I Love Bimby!]

If you're into seafood and would like to do a risotto I recall JB talking about doing the risotto bit on the top while you steam the seafood bit in the varoma.  Maybe do the risotto but cook it for 15 minutes and pop it into your Thermoserver (if you go one as a host gift with your TMX purchase??) Then you can steam the seafood component while the Risotto continues to 'cook' in the Thermoserver. When everything is ready then you could combine in a large serving dish.

Hope that makes sense. I don't eat seafood so can't give you much more advice than that - but it would help the risotto go a lot further.

[trudy o]

I just got back from family visit (stayed a few days) and the thermomix certainly got a workout.
the dinner was a great success thanks for all the advise.  I ended up doing a couple of dips - garlic and herb, sundried tomato one(all from the everyday cookbook) to start with.  I prepared a lasange earlier in the day to pop in the oven.  I also did steamed meatballs with a tomato sauce (will post recipe later), and the garlic rice from here.  I also did a loaf of bread and for desert the sticky date pudding with sauce fromthe everyday cookbook too.  everything turned out beautifully and everyone loved it.
thanks again for all your help. 

[judydawn]

Well done trudy o, so glad everything turned out successfully for you.  How many of your rellies are now going to buy their own TMX

[trudy o]

they all want one lol

[brazen20au]

well done!

[Thermomixer]

they all want one lol

You should ask for commission. 

[brazen20au]

sign up as a demonstrator!

[cookie1]

Well done. It sounds lovely. Congratulations on carrying out such a big task.