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~ Eloise Emmett ~ Leave a comment

I always cook from raw, real, fresh ingredients I am passionate about shopping locally, supporting the local farmers, growing my own veggies and knowing exactly what I am feeding my family but I have found since owing my thermomix that I am back to basics that step further, making my own butter, fruit juices, porridge from rolled oats (sad but true I used the quick oats sachets rather than using rolled oats and then washing up the pot!!) because its so quick and simple.
I understand I am saving heaps of money by using my thermomix to its full potential but wonder about the fortune that people who buy packaged supermarket food could save if they invested in a thermomix.
Last night for example, while cooking roast pork, I made a batch of 30 second whole orange cake into 20 cupcakes to freeze to go in the kids lunches (I  love that recipe  so simple & delicious, find it on the thermomix recipe community) a batch of 12 muslie bars ( I cut them into 16, my kids are young, love that about cooking for yourself can control waste and portion size!), butter, a white bread loaf, a butter milk loaf and a linseed whole meal loaf.
My (rough- by major supermarket -online prices) calculations worked out tonight that I would have saved $26.50 by making these few items last night rather than buying them from the supermarket and it only took well under a hour while I was cooking anyway: 2 minutes to prep and  cup cake the orange cakes, 4 minute each loaf (plus rising time) 10 minutes butter (2 batches plus to wash) 5 minutes muslie bar, all prepped up and baked while the roast pork was cooking.
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Thermomix is offering interest free finance for the first year until January 6th, so $39 per week to own your own thermomix in a year! how much could you save??

garlic and rosemary pizza bread, cream of cauliflower soup, meatballs and handmade fettuccini and banana Muffins

~ Eloise Emmett ~ 2 Comments

Here are the recipes form the first mini chefs from Friday the 2/8/2013.

Menu
cream of cauliflower soup
garlic and rosemary pizza bread
meatballs with handmade fettuccini
banana muffins

Mini chefs at Eaglehawk neck Hall recipes from Friday

Garlic and rosemary pizza bread

(I have used the Recipe from the thermomix everyday cookbook so I can practice)
500 grams flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon yeast
300 ml water
2 cloves garlic
2 sprigs rosemary

Mix flour, salt, yeast and water in a bowl and knead well until it forms a smooth ball, 10 -15 minutes. Leave to rise. Then flatten into thin rounds and sprinkle with olive oil, sea salt and crushed garlic and rosemary. Bake in a 200 C oven for about 15 minutes.

TM directions
crush garlic and rosemary in the TM
blend on speed 7 for 7 seconds. Knead for 2 minutes. Cover in a warm spot and rise. Flatten and drizzle with oil sprinkle with garlic, rosemary and sea salt. Bake in a 200 C oven for about 15 minutes

Cauliflower soup
1 cauliflower
1 brown onion
2 cloves garlic
500 ml stock
100 ml cream
2 tablespoons tarragon
salt and pepper

Stove top directions

Peel and dice garlic and onion and fry in the oil, add cauliflower and stock and bring to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes, add tarragon and cream and puree. Season with salt and pepper and serve

TM directions
peel garlic and onion put in mixing bowl and blend on speed 7 for 3 seconds.  Cook on 100 for 2 minutes. Add cauliflower stock and tarragon cook at 100 C for 15 minutes speed one reverse. Add cream and puree on speed 10 40 seconds season with salt and pepper and serve.

soup

Meat balls and fettuccini

steph pasta Thanks for the photo Joanne Curran

Fettuccini
2 cups flour
3 eggs

1 tablespoon oil

Meatballs
500 grams mince
1 egg
½ onion
2 cloves garlic
3 slices bread
salt and pepper
teaspoon basil
teaspoon oregano
teaspoon ground fennel

Tomato sauce
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon basil
1 tablespoon oregano
400 grams crushed tomatoes

To make the tomato sauce, dice onion and crush garlic and sauté for I minute and herbs and tomato and simmer for 20 minutes.

TM: put peeled onion and garlic in the mixing bowl and blend 4 seconds on speed 7. Add oil sauté reverse speed 1, 100 C 2 minutes, add herbs and tomato and cook 100 C reverse, speed 1, and 15 minutes.

To make the pasta mix eggs and flour together well. Or in TM blend speed 7 for 30 seconds.

Roll through the pasta maker to number 6 and cut into fettuccini. Just prior to serving cook in boiling water for 2 minutes.

To make the meatballs, in the TM or blender blend the bread until fine crumbs. Finely chop onion and crush garlic and mix all ingredients together well. Roll in to balls about 3 cm in diameter. Heat the oil in a heavy based pan and cook the meatballs in the oil over a low heat with a lid on, about 15 minutes or until cooked add sauce and serve topped with parmesan or cheddar cheese.

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Banana Muffins

1 ½ cups self-raising flour
1/3 cup rolled oats
3 eggs
¾ cup brown sugar
¾ cup yogurt
1 tablespoon oil
2 mashed bananas

Mix all ingredients together well and put into muffin cases filling 2/3 bake for about 15 minutes at180 C.