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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: judydawn on August 11, 2014, 01:19:59 am
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We have decided to move onto our next challenge but if there are still untried forum recipes you would like to try, please do so and add them to the previous challenge thread (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=15463.0). Some wonderful recipes were bumped and we really appreciate the input from all those who participated.
The new challenge is for comfort food. This means something different to everyone, it could be savoury or dessert. Preferably recipes from the forum but recipes from other sources are welcomed (please provide a photo and a link back to the recipe) or perhaps you may even like to convert a new recipe.
On your marks, get set, GO!
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Thanks Judy. It will be fun to see what everyone thinks of as Comfort Food.
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Thanks Judy :-*
Comfort food for me is a dessert with custard :D :D
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I have the recipe ready; rescued the chocolate from DH and the cream is sitting in the fridge. Will try tomorrow to put a photo on here with the recipe. You ladies are so good coming up with these new ideas and I do sooo love comfort food.
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"rescued the chocolate from DH and the cream is sitting in the fridge."
LOL :D :D :D You made me laugh Troupie ;)
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So glad to make you happy. I have really enjoyed the challenge so far and it got me looking at more recipes rather than sticking with the ones I always make.
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Nice to feel your excitement troupie. Poor DH, almost got to have some chocolate before you 'rescued' it :D :D
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Just made Chookie's Hazelnut Ice-cream with frangelico liqueur could only wait 1hr in freezer ... Yum & so nice on a sore throat. Link & photo tomorrow ;)
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Just made my comfort food; Chocolate Scones. I am now going to read up on posting the photo before I post the recipe.
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Comfort food to me is anything containing my favourite vegies etc. I have converted and posted the recipe for Chicken, Spinach & Cauliflower Cheese (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=15664.0) as it fits the bill perfectly for me.
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Comfort food for me is possibly a lot of the food I grew up with. Like CC that includes desserts with custard. I also think of soups, casseroles and warm things as Comfort food.
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I think, like most people, comfort food to me is the food I grew up with ... porridge and scotch broth are the stand outs here ... according to mum, they cure all illnesses! However, that isn't stimulating this challenge so I will have to try to come up with something TMX related. Winter is definitely the time to be thinking of comfort food so I am sure there are heaps of possibilities out there.
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Love this Challenge. Isn't all food comfort food? Just joking ;D
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Isn't all food comfort food? Just joking ;D
I think you are right, Chookie!!
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Love this Challenge. Isn't all food comfort food? Just joking ;D
It is to me.
Last night we made my DH's very favourite dessert. Rice Pudding. This is his favourite recipe and it is from My Way of Cooking. It is on page 218. It can be served with fruit or a coulis. He prefers it plain.
The only change I make is to cook it using speed 2 for the 30 minutes, not speed 1.
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At the moment we are a sick house hold so comfort food today was soup - Quirky Jo's Chicken & Brown Rice (http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/08/13/evuzy7yr.jpg)
Rice pudding looks great the only time I've made it do rice needed to be cooked more.
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Our cake/biscuit barrel was empty so I asked DH what comfort food he would like to put in it. His reply was, "the little cakes your Mum used to make, without all the icing and stuff". So here they are. I used this recipe from the forum http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4486.0 and then simply added in a handful of sultanas, mixed :-: for about 10-15 seconds. The recipe Mum used was similar to this.
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Comfort food to me is a nice casserole or stew filled with lots of chunky pieces of meat and veg. :)
We are having one tonight but it is all slowcooker so not much good for this challenge.
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Tonight we had INAID's creamy garlic prawn penne, made by DH.
Creamy pasta is great comfort food. http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=14141.0
Delicious! He added baby spinach to the Thermoserver, like I did last time. Oh and chilli of course!
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Oh I can add to this - tomorrow - when I have more time to write the recipe.
I'll be back ;D
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Lol Nikkit. Waiting in anticipation.
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I'm the same as Astarra. Tonight we had beef and barley soup that I'd cooked in my pressure cooker which is comfort food, but doesn't fit this challenge, although I did chop the veggies in thermie. I served it with Irish brown breadhttp://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=15509.15#top (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=15509.15#top) which was still warm from the oven.
Dessert was weetbix slice with peppermint icing.http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2061.0 (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2061.0)
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Wow ES. Love the look of the slice.
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My comfort food would be things like:
Savoury
Shepherds pie, stew and mashed potato, both with veg, good soup and fresh bread, roast chicken with all the trimmings especially bread sauce. If in a hurry or on a budget, then beans on buttered toast, baked potato with butter and fillings.
Sweet
Hot puddings such as - Rice pudding, sponge and custard, crumble and custard, Trudy's peaches and custard dessert. Chookies lemon Belgium teacake.
Fresh made cakes and scones for tea time..
Lots of calories equal comfort food, ;D
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Although I am happy with my recipe for Naan, there is a different one in the Melbourne Age. I will try it for this Challenge as this with a nice curry will be comfort food on this cold Winter day.
Report later
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I'm back... ;D
Slow roast pork, roasted veges and gravy. I did this the other day and attempted the "slow roast" bit, but I was outside, the power went out and 2 hours later when I realised, the slow roast had to be sped up a bit to get roasted! :(
Anyway I am going to have another go at this.
1 piece of meat of choice to be roasted. (I like pork)
2 cans coke
a couple of chillis or to taste
2 teaspoons liquid smoke
Put meat in roasting dish with a lid, pour in coke, liquid smoke and chillis and slow roast on 150 for at least 6 hours. Turn meat over every hour or so. It should end up all browned and falling off the bone. Thicken the juices left in the bottom of the pan for gravy (sweet and spicy and smokey).
You can "pull" it apart with fork and put it in wraps/tortillas with sour cream, salsa, guacamole etc or seve with roasted veges and gravy.
Aaaannnnd I just realised this is not a thermy recipe...make the gravy in the thermy! :)
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That sounds very interesting Nikkit, it really was going to be a very slow cook roast with no power there for a while :D Did the gravy taste anything like coke?
DJ - everything listed in your type of comfort food is right up my alley.
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DJ you are right. High calories=comfort food.
Nikkit that sounds so easy. I will attempt to leave out the power outage. ;)
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I agree comfort foods tend to be high calorie. Made creamed rice from the recipe forum which was rather nice. Have bookmarked INAID's creamy garlic prawns for the weekend. DH can't eat prawns, but I have some nice salmon to use instead. I think the addition of cream seems to help make foods into comfort foods for us.
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Autumn Traybake.I think it needs a little more work :-\ But will post it if anyone is interested.
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Autumn already CC - it's only mid August....
I know, I know the weather has changed.. Seemed early this year.
Looks good and yummy!
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Of course post the recipe Denise. It looks light and fluffy.
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CC, looks good to me. The local cafe charges $4 for a slice not as nice as yours.
I made a sauce that I thought might make a ' comfort ' dish. It was awful. Most uncomfortable!
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That's not good Chookie.
I decided that a lovely comfort food would be steamed puddings and custard. I used this recipe http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1243.0
And added some sultanas and :-: for about 10 seconds.
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Tonight we had chicken snittys with mushroom sauce made in thermie
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Never heard them called that before Sue :D
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Neither had I Judy :D :D
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That sounds very interesting Nikkit, it really was going to be a very slow cook roast with no power there for a while :D Did the gravy taste anything like coke?
No It didn't taste like coke Judy, was sweet, but the chilli and the smokey flavours worked good together. The original recipe said 3 cans and about a cup of brown sugar :o I figured we could cut that back A LOT!
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Making pea and ham soup, in slow cooker although will give the veggies 2 seconds chop in TMX. Should go well with the Soda Bread.
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Comfort food for me is savoury, like hearty soups, creamy pasta dishes, cheesy pizza.
Tonight is Chicken and Brown Rice Soup (just made, added a tin of creamed corn), Pink Alfredo Tortellini, and cheesy garlic pizza (dough is resting in 2nd bowl).
Hope that meats the challenge guidelines.
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Great cooking Arcadia 8) It all sounds delicious and very comforting ;D
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Great food arcadia, you'll be eating well tonight.
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Great comfort cooking girls.
Love your tray bake cake CC.
My comfort food last night was tray baked penne with meatballs.
Tonight Jamie Oliver's hearty spiced beef stew and vanilla icecream with tenina's salted caramel sauce. The photo was taken before I drowned it in more caramel sauce 😁 Yes I agree too... comfort food = naughty food.
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Yummmm Kimmy!
I think porridge is comfort food, so I made Tenina's Quinoa and Brown Rice Porridge from 'What's for Breakfast'. I was hoping to do a conversion and post as my contribution to this challenge, but found this recipe and it really is a winner. I gave my review in its own thread.
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As expected, lots of different contributions which constitute comfort food - great pictures girls.
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Great cooking and photos girls 8)
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It sure is another fun challenge.
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What is more comforting than seedy bread www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=5564.0;topicseen (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=5564.0;topicseen). (We ate it with chicken soup)
Or chocolate chip biscuits http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=11612.0 (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=11612.0)
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Very comforting indeed ES.
Pasta and pikelets was our comfort food today.(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/08/18/puneqa9y.jpg)(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/08/18/eba7eta4.jpg)
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Such an interesting challenge. Great cooking, girls.
Had fish curry tonight. Definitely comfort food. It has all the aroma of Nasi Kandar from back home. Yum....but cooked on stovetop 😄
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Comfort is how well I feel eating healthy TM food, how much my TM enables me to live an independent life as a disabled stroke survivor, how much more time to do other things and how much longer I might live to enjoy my TM food. I don't eat exotic but I get lots of help with the forum.
Steven
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Steven, we are all with you there. We can make such healthy food with the TMX, and with so little effort.
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Hello Steven, gosh you've been a member for many years and it's nice that you've joined us with your first comment. I do hope life is treating you well, obviously your Thermomix and the recipes on our forum are making things a lot easier for you. We wish you well.
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Hello Steven. How lovely to hear from you. The thermomix is indeed a great little machine.
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I would class milo as a comfort food- well a comfort drink at least, as I don't encourage my kids to eat it with a spoon straight out of the tin as much as they would love me to let them......
I was looking for a version without a long list of additives, but my kids aren't so keen on the version made with nuts and seeds, and nuts can be a problem when other kids with allergies are over for a play. I came across this recipe http://alexxstuart.com/i-cant-believe-its-not-milo (http://alexxstuart.com/i-cant-believe-its-not-milo) on the web and gave it a go. Well, I made a few substitutions, but used the method from Alexx Stuart's blog. It's basically a toffee made from rice malt syrup that is ground up with cacao powder. I've never used rice malt syrup before, but luckily I just happened to buy some this week. I didn't have any cacao powder so I used 4 or 5 teaspoons of cocoa and a teaspoon of Haighs drinking chocolate, and I didn't have any vanilla powder, so I added a teaspoon of vanilla paste with the butter and rice malt syrup. I wouldn't say that this tastes just like milo as it has a real caramel flavour, but it is delicious all the same and both kids have given me the thumbs up.
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That's all we can ask Sue, the kids know a good thing when they taste it and can be our hardest critics ;)
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Welcome Steven. :)
Looks very good ES 8)
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Welcome Steven; you will find lots of healthy comfort foods on this site. The milo recipe sounds good so might try it for the GK on the next school hols.
My comfort food for this week was a Balsamic and Tomato Beef Stew. The recipe was from the Thermomix site. I added some extra veges and it had a lovely rich sauce. I would link if I knew how. I will definitely make this again. I am not sure but when I make something like this with Balsamic it is always nice and comfortingly tender.
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Ooh, I didn't know Haigh's had a drinking chocolate.
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I am loving these challenges and since today was such a horrid day in Sydney I thought I'd add our comfort food for today, as requested by the boys (nearly 17 and 21 ;D). It's our version of a sausage casserole with rice and loads of veg. I have been cooking this for them since they were little and they still ask for it. Not tmx and not posted, but I will post if anyone is interested.
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Yes please.
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Yes please.
Ditto :-*
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Warming Ginger Crunch (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=15693.msg367527#new);D
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That looks lovely CC. I love anything with ginger
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Thanks Sue :)
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Kimmyh your pikelets look great; nice and thick. Sausage casserole recipe, yes please. I sometimes make a sausage casserole but there is no recipe and it is just what I have in the fridge; would be good to have a proper recipe.
My comfort food yesterday was Chookies banana self saucing pudding. On the spur of the moment I needed something yummy to have after our pumpkin soup for dinner and there it was, quick and easy to make and I served it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream; what can I say but Yum Yum.
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I made Dijinni 's sausage casserole tonight, I'm not a sausage fan but it was really nice, thanks.
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Sausage casserole recipe, yes please. I sometimes make a sausage casserole but there is no recipe and it is just what I have in the fridge; would be good to have a proper recipe.
Posted in the non tmx recipe section troupie.
I made Dijinni 's sausage casserole tonight, I'm not a sausage fan but it was really nice, thanks.
I am not a big fan of sausages either AB but I will eat this casserole. Glad you liked it.
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This is my comfort food challenge . http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1550.30
Oh yum.not for me though but a gift.
Gert
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The recipient will be very happy with it Gert :)
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It scores a yum from me too.
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Looks delicious Gert; lucky friends.
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That looks yummy :P
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Looks wonderful Gert, lucky friend
CC, love things with ginger too ;D
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Gorgeous cake, Gert 😋😋
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Superb cake Gert 8)
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Yum Gert.
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This challenge is now finished - thanks to all those who participated. A new challenge (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=15718.0) has been posted.