I made these delicious double choc chip biscuits from the Thermobliss blog, which is easily my favourite place to go for recipes and inspiration. And OMG these cookies were amazing! Probably the yummiest choc chip cookies I’ve ever had, and I have had a lot of cookies! I can’t make them again for a long time though, because they absolutely destroyed my wedding diet (eating four in one sitting is not ideal for the waistline!) but they will for sure be a go-to recipe in the future!
K and I made this Cheesy Cob Loaf Dip to take to my nephews birthday party last weekend (again from the Thermobliss blog!) and it was SO good. But once again, not exactly diet food. Oh well, you only live once! And it was absolutely worth every calorie...!
We made lots of dinners in the Thermie this week as well. I made this Mac & Cheese with hidden vegies but I found it a bit bland and flavourless to be honest. I was really looking forward to it because I am a Mac & Cheese lover but this just didn’t do it for me. K and I made the Quiche Lorraine from The Basic Cookbook...and it was the best quiche I’ve ever had! So fresh and tasty. And it was my first attempt at making and blind baking pastry, so I was pretty impressed with how simple it was using the Thermie.
I also made a cottage pie, using the shepherds pie recipe from The Basic Cookbook but replacing lamb mince with beef (I just can’t bring myself to eat lamb...they are too cute and innocent!). I made Curried Sausages for K as it’s one of his favourites...I struggled a little bit with this recipe! There were a lot of things going on, steaming the sausages, boiling the rice while making the sauce, and I added steamed carrots and broccoli as well which was just an extra component for me to deal with. But it was so yum!!! I’ve never had curried sausages before but this will be a regular for us now. The first night we ate it with the boiled rice but I found the sauce was quite runny and the rice didn’t soak it up (I used a combination of brown rice and quinoa which could explain it). So the second night when we had the leftovers I whipped up some mashed potato (definitely my favourite thing to make in the Thermie!) and it was so much better. The potato soaked up all the sauce and it was just delicious! The curry discoloured all the plastic parts (lid, spatula, etc) but I just put them outside in the sun the next day and voila...all fixed!
Tonight (being Saturday) K and I just had a quiet night at home so I made the Pizza Margherita from The Basic Cookbook. It was my first time making pizza dough...and it was so easy! It took about three minutes to make the dough in Uma Thermie, which I then set aside for an hour to prove. Then I rolled it out and shaped it onto a baking tray with my hands (because I wanted it to be rectangular like it is in the Cookbook). I added some tomato paste (which isn’t in the recipe), fresh tomato slices, fresh basil and mozzarella cheese. Sprinkled some salt over the top, a quick drizzle of olive oil and into the oven for 20 minutes...! So easy, and it was really yum!
Disclaimer: I made two of these pizzas but the second one was on the top shelf of the oven and burnt to a crisp...! But the surviving pizza was more than enough for both of us and was cooked to perfection!
Having a Thermomix has given me so much more confidence in the kitchen. I am cooking things I never would have tried to cook in the past because I was scared off by the thought of making dough or pastry etc...but this amazing appliance takes most of the work out of it. And best of all I know exactly what is in everything. I have purchased ingredients from the supermarket that I didn’t even know existed!
