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Vegetable coconut curry

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Vegetable curry
Vegetable curry

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/main-dishes-vegetarian-recipes/veggie-coconut-curry/73298

Cleaning out fridge and clearing out the unused vegetables.  This curry is a great way to use up the excess vegetables, that odd bit of pumpkin or sweet potato, the half broccoli or cauliflower.  Kids ate with crackers and mum and dad ate with rice.  And it requires nothing more then some curry powder and coconut milk, not an extensive list of herbs. Love how the TM chops the garlic, onion and ginger and then sauté. I filled the whole Varoma dish and cooked a little longer 20 mins. Thickened slightly with some cornflour at end but doesn’t really need to be thickened at all.

Pizza pops with rosemary and garlic

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Pizza pops with rosemary and garlic
Pizza pops with rosemary and garlic

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/breads-rolls-recipes/pizza-pops/139424

Made these pizza pops again to freeze for school lunches.  This time flavoured the pizza dough with rosemary and garlic. Just throw a handful of fresh rosemary and two garlic cloves into the TM bowl before following the guided pizza dough recipe.  Chop rosemary and garlic at speed 7 until finely chopped. Then follow the guided recipe for pizza dough  from there, no need to set aside the rosemary and garlic.

Steamed Carrot and Zucchini tagliatelle

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Carrot and corgette tagliatelle
Steamed carrot and zucchini tagliatelle

While the potatoes were roasting in the oven, we  popped the varoma back on to steam the vegetable tagliatelle. Another simple guided recipe, only takes 8 minutes to cook. Yippee! The only tricky part is peeling the vegetables into strips, our mandolin is not quite thin enough so peeler seems to be the best option. To  my girls, leave an inch at the end for holding, and peel away from hands and downwards. The rabbit can have the ends for dinner. And saves peeling fingers. Served with chicken and roast potatoes tonight. Simple food.

The Crispiest Roast Potatoes by Chelsea Winter

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imagehttp://chelseawinter.co.nz/crispy-roast-potatoes/

They’re crispy and the best roast potatoes we’ve ever made, adapted this Chelsea Winters recipe (link above)  “perfect crispy roast potatoes” for the thermomix from her wonderful blog. This is the third batch made because they were demolished and one kilo of potatoes just isn’t enough for afternoon tea and dinner, left skins on for better nutrition and to save  time.

Using the method from Katherine Clay on the recipe community to first steam the potatoes in Varoma for 20 minutes, speed 2 with 500g water in bowl. Left thermomix steaming and went to drop kids off to activities and came back and they were done. Just love this about the thermomix, the set and walk away factor is so convenient. Once parboiled/steamed leave to drain off moisture from potatoes before adding oils, as per Chelsea’s recipe. Shake dish with lid on to rough up the potatoes.  Generous sprinkle of salt, then fan bake on a high shelf in oven  220C for 25 minutes. The kids kept looking for all the burnt crunchy bits. Yummy!

Finger buns/ Sweet buns

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Finger buns
Finger buns/sweet buns

https://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-sweet-recipes/sweet-bun-dough-thermomumma/x741ie2j-2d4f5-254760-cfcd2-p7734kaj

Just made these finger buns today, O….mi…gosh, another recipe from the expert bread maker ThermomummaLailahRose who has published her recipes on her blog thermomumma.com.   She posted the jumbo white bread( we used for burger buns) , jumbo wholemeal bread, jumbo fruit loaf (used for fruit bun/loaf )  and this absolutely amazing sweet bun dough which can be used for finger buns or scrolls. Awwww I’m giving them away before we eat the lot. They’re as good as the Bakers Delight buns if not better and freshly homemade. And maybe better than our favourite scrolls using Annabel Langbein’s sticky bun recipe.  Bread heavan here today! Baked for 10-15 mins at 190C, ( NB trial and error , fan forced too hot for our oven for these buns and buns were too brown and less fluffy  )  then iced with her icing recipe on the link above. Oooooooh they’re so  good, like eating fluffy pink clouds!!! Going to do cost comparison and post tonight because can’t resist checking out the numbers. Notes for next time: could glaze before baking rather than ice to reduce sugar content and at second prove check at 45 mins, at just over hour looked like they might overprove some were starting to fall.

( if using fanbake , check buns at 8-10mins )

Marinated Beetroot Salad – Quirky cooking

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Marinated Beetroot salad
Marinated Beetroot salad

http://www.quirkycooking.com.au/2014/12/marinated-beetroot-spinach-salad/

Love Beetroot salad and the guided recipe for beetroot salad is one of our most frequently used recipes. More often than not there will always be some raw beetroot salad in the fridge to snack on so when I spotted the recipe for marinated beetroot salad  on Quirky cooking’s blog, had to try it. It’s lovely. The beetroot has been marinating in the fridge overnight and is still crunchy and refreshing. The marinade is used as a dressing so dinner is just an assembly job. And there’s  plenty leftover for another salad another day. Notes: halve beetroot before julienne into slices.

Pizza Pops

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Pizza pops
Pizza pops

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/breads-rolls-recipes/pizza-pops/139424

Recipe from road to loving my Thermomix’s blog. Great recipe, neat new way to use the pizza dough recipe from Basic cookbook. Filled with bacon cheese and herbs. Next time try to fill a bit more , maybe 2 teaspoons of mixture and use more spinach. The kids will love this as an alternative lunchbox item. Figured out it’s better to make double the pizza dough and refrigerate half for use another day. Can be made into bread rolls, grissini sticks, or even more pizza for snacks and lunchboxes.

Inside a pizza pop
Inside a pizza pop

Vietnamese Chicken Salad

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Vietnamese Chicken Salad

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/main-dishes-meat-recipes/vietnamese-chicken-noodle-salad/215670

This recipe for Vietnamese chicken salad from the recipe community is absolutely divine! The fresh lime, teamed with  the crunch of the nuts, the cooling mint and cucumber against the  salty spicy chilli sauce. Love love love this recipe. Again another great use of  shredded chicken. Loaded up the Varoma dish and tray with 1 kg of chicken breast to be used for sandwiches/ lunches during the week. And miss 14 and miss 8 gave it a big thumbs up. Ticks all boxes and can be made ahead.