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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Halex on August 07, 2011, 12:39:57 am
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Please does anyone have a good easy tasty veggie soup that i can whip up with no effort that will make e feel better.
Thnks
Hally
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I always do this (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1435.0) lighter chicken soup when me or DD is not well Hally - quick and easy and if you don't like using packet chicken noodle soup mix you can just use some chicken stock powder and some broken up egg noodles in it's place.
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Thanks jd, dh and i are gong to do this together :)
I dont have the strength to do it all myself, so under strict supervision dh will make this. We have most of the ingredients, dont hsve the soup mix but have veg stock in fridge and risoni pasta.
Hally :)
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veg stock will do, or chicken stock paste if you have made it Hally. Get well soon :-*
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Hally, maybe this carrot soup will help you feeling better:
Creamy Carrot soup (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=6788.msg90194#msg90194)
Take care :)
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Thanks faffa, only have veg stock in fridge atm
I must say i always thought chiili, garlic ,ginger would stave off colds.
Thursday night we had all the indian food which was pcked with the above and then had it friday, but didnt seem to help. I think once its in your system you cant get rid of it, but hopefully hels with a speedy recovery.
Hally
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Thanks Carine, will make this too, soup for the next few days.
Hally
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Lots of tea with a good chunk of ginger, honey and a drop of lemon too!
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My DH recently made us traditional chicken soup when the boys and I were all sick and struggling to get better. He simmered chicken wings, necks, onions and carrots in a big pot on the stovetop (removing the scum when it boiled initially) and added herbs in the last 30 minutes. He strained it after 10 hours and made it into a simple soup. It was far better than anything we could have bought from the chemist and wasn't difficult to throw in the pot. Chicken stock or broth really is the best medicine - sadly not made in the thermie though as the bones need to simmer all day to release their goodness.
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Hi chelsea,
I used to always make my soup like this, but now i have the tm i dont, i must admit you cant beat the taste of bones cooked all day. I think this is a bit too hard for dh, but next week when i am better i m going to make some and freeze it, so its ready to go if anyone is sick acgain this winter.
Thanks to tm i have meals in the freezer for dh and ds.
So glad i have my ipad with me in bed.
Hally
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yes chicken soup is always good, and this one (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=6904.0;topicseen) has just been posted and looks nice and easy. Looks to be easily digestible and would have lots of goodness.
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I'd make some chicken stock by using veg stock concentrate and putting some chicken pieces in the basket.
Once you've got hot chicken stock and the pieces are cooked remove the basket, add a can of creamed corn, a blob of cream and the meat from the chicken pieces. Heat to 100c on speed 4 for 3 minutes. Add an egg and mix 10 sec speed 2.
Serve
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Hallyt, hope you get better soon. Plenty of fluids is the trick.
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Gosh i typed a message and its gone !*!* i am nit that sick i am not delirious
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Try again
Have jd's soup on the go. Found 1/2 litre of home made chicken stock in freezer, so this with1/2 litre of water and 2tbs veggie past, hopefully will do the trick.
Dh is feeling lethargic, thats how i was thursday, hoe he doesnt get it. He has just fallen asleep as i am typing.
Last time i thought i had a cold, the 3 of us were in phuket, i was sick, the dh, then ds, it turned out we all had SWINE flu, not much fun on holiday and not much fun at all..
Hope to be lots better tomorrow, mind very able, body NOT.
Thanks everyone, you are a great bunch of people
Hally
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Hope you're feeling better soon Hally, I'm sure the soup will do the trick!
I've just spend the last couple of days in bed with the flu, so I know how you feel.
My partner made me JD's chicken & veggie soup and that really made me feel heaps better. We have made that soup before and my partner knows how to use Thermie, so he was able to make it without any assistance or worry from me :)
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Get better soon Hally :)
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Hope you feel better soon Hally :)
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I hope you get better soon Hally. :-*
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:( Get well soon Hally
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Hope you feel better soon Hally.
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Hope you are feeling like your cheery self really quickly Hally (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sick010.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)
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Katiej, hope your better now too. Its great that your DH can use the thermie. Mine certainly needs lessons.
Thank you everyone for your lovely messages, feeling much better today, still have a runny itchy nose but more energy i will be taking it very easy today. Drop ds at school and then stay home, mmmmm maybe do some cooking.
It must have been the soup and the hot lemon drink that helped me.
Thanks everone :)
Hally
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Hally, check out the app ever note it's free and looks like a great way to save recipes in files.
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Bedlam not sure if i have that, googled best app and it came up with an award page of apps but not thecapp aver note. How do i find it
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Thanks
Hally
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Good to see you up again Hally. Probably a mixture of the soup, the drink, rest and tender loving care from your boys. :-*
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Just nice to feel like cooking again, rather than trying to make soup when nit feeling good.
Happy Hally again ;D
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Bedlam not sure if i have that, googled best app and it came up with an award page of apps but not thecapp aver note. How do i find it
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Thanks
Hally
Hally
If you go into the app store on the top right hand side is a area to search. Have a look there. It is one word evernote and it's free! You can tag into different categories and sync with other devices, looks great.
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Thanks bedlam, its downloading now
Hally :)
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Hally I use evernote too its fantastic and you can sync on your pc, ipad and iphone so no matter where you are you have all your recipes and you can sort them into whatever categories you want...was meaganjane if i remember correctly who put me onto it ages ago...love it and you can also put whatever into it..ive put photos and typed info at a shop..even once put in some reference on a special type of ladder in a shop that DH was looking for at work...organisable electronic notepad really..shopping lists etc etc Just be careful in the beginning (their will be warnings) to not go over a certain limit of storage size per month...its huge but I actually reached it the first month lol...havent since though..there is a free and a payable version...the free version is more than enough :)
oh and hope your feeling better :)
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Thanks frozzie, i down loaded the free app. Wednesdsy ds at tennis for 1 hour so while watching will figure it out.
Sounds to good to be true.
I must admit i love my ipad nearly as much as my tm, they work very well together.
Yes feeling heaps better now thanks
Hally
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Perhaps we should have this soup recipe at the ready for when we feel a cold coming on and then freeze portions.
This family favourite soup is amazing in its restorative powers. As well as boosting the immune system it warms and nourishes anyone who is feeling under the weather due to the beginning symptoms of a cold or the flu. it helps to restore health quickly and have often seen it help to heal people, sometimes in as little as 2 or 3 hours after eating a good portion! Garlic, onions, chilli, ginger and good homemade chicken stock all have well known immune supporting abilities. Makes 1.5 litres. Written by Janie of UK Thermomix.com
Name of Recipe: Bug Beater Soup
Copied from UKThermomix.com list of recipes
Number of People: 5/6
Ingredients:
3 to 4 cloves garlic, peeled
2 onions, peeled and quartered
2 to 4 cm ginger root, sliced into 2 mm “coins” along the lines on the skin
½ fresh or dried chilli
30 g chicken fat (from the top of your homemade stock) or olive oil
350 g your favourite vegetable/s for a soup – see suggestions below
60 g red lentils, ground or whole
up to 1 litre good homemade chicken stock – made in TM (or water if you are a vegetarian)
1 heaped tsp TM stock paste or ¾ tsp salt
freshly ground pepper
Preparation:
1. Chop garlic, onions, ginger and chilli with the chicken fat or olive oil 5 seconds/Speed 7.
2. Sauté 5 minutes/100°C/Speed 1.
3. Add vegetables cut into 2 to 3 cm lumps and lentils. Chop at Speed 4½ for a few seconds (you’ll hear when it’s done). Scrape down the sides of the TM bowl with the TM spatula.
4. Add stock or water up to the 1.5 litre mark on the inside of the TM bowl. Add stock paste if using. Cook 15 minutes/100°C/Speed 2.
5. Add salt if you didn’t use stock paste. Add several grinds of pepper. Blend 1 minute/Speed 10. Check seasoning by tasting again and adjust if necessary, then enjoy a big bowl full!
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Tips/Hints:
This family favourite soup is amazing in its restorative powers. As well as boosting the immune system it warms and nourishes anyone who is feeling under the weather due to the beginning symptoms of a cold or the flu. I invented it to restore health quickly and have often seen it help to heal people, sometimes in as little as 2 or 3 hours after eating a good portion! Garlic, onions, chilli, ginger and good homemade chicken stock all have well known immune supporting abilities. Makes 1.5 litres
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Frozzie, do you use it to store recipes? I want some way of sorting my stored recipes and thought it looked good.
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Hi Bedlam, I use evernote to store all my recipes as I have long given up on printing them out because:
a) Trying to do my bit for the environment
b) I still cant find the recipe I'm looking for when I want it, even though I had them sorted in folders.
I have found evernote very easy to use and tag all my recipes (e.g. Main Meals, Dessert, Quick, etc) so it's easy to find them again. I also add a checkbox beside the name of the recipe and tick it if I have made the recipe and then use a scoring system as well. You can also add hyperlinks so I add these in each recipe so that I can link back to original posts if I want to read the comments.
Each week when I do my menu planning I add the "This Week" tag so I can quickly find the recipe when needed. When I have cooked it I then remove that tag. There is also a very easy search facility that you can use to find your recipes.
I have evernote downloaded on my phone so I can check my recipes at any time (e.g. if I am at the shops).
Hope this has helped.
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Get well quickly Hally.
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DD excellent recipe, thank you, will make it next time one of us sick. I have 1 litre of stock in freezer for emergency.
Thanks Hally
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Thanks twitterpated,
Sounds exactly what I was looking for. I have just been using notes but hard to file that way.
Do you have the free one? I have copied about 300 recipes into notes,when i plan a menu I sort through that.easier than going through all the forum. Is that too big for the free version do you think?
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sorry bedlam...shopping trip with the kids and just got back..arrgghhh bring back school lol!
yes i use evernote to store all of my recipes and actually anything online...as i look every day in new recipes i just copy and paste them as i see them..usually a couple a day but at first i did copy quite a lot..stayed up rather late...I currently have 1400 notes mostly recipes lol...from forum and other blogs in both french and english also other recipes sites with recipes that interest me and i have put to convert..all in seperate labels..sorry i have the french version so mine is all in french but its the french word for label in english ...i imagine its the same...I have put thermomix and non thermomix labels then under thermomix for example all the different catergories and sub categories..exactly like you would if you were organising them ion a printed file..sometimes i copy them in two labels so they are easier to find under a specific label....its not as beautifully layed out as some software but the advantage with this one is its exactly like an electronic notebook and you can write all sorts of things in it...what i love is if i have forgotten to add something to the shopping list for a certain recipe i just look it up on my iphone at the supermarket and voila...i know exactly what i need..if im with friends or at a shop and see something same thing i can note it down electronically and then search online later if i want to...possibilites are endless really...and its very easy to use!!
Its better to sort htem under labels as they are much easier to find than in one big group...hope it helps...if you have any questions just ask .. :)
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Thanks Frozzie, it looks wonderful, I just got a bit worried when I saw there was a limit. If you have 1400 notes sound like it will be fine for me. Can you only access it online, that was the other concern.
Have the kids just started hols, DH and I are coming to Paris after a couple of weeks in the UK, in a month. ( we are going to a car show in England so I have booked us a market tour and cooking class in Paris- only fair I thought!)
Good luck with keeping them entertained.
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Ok girls, help needed
I have tranferred 6 recipes, i have out them into sections ie soup, pasta etc. How do i create a new page in each section. I did 2 soups and they come up as different sections.
Help please
Hally
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hally
you just click on new note which you may have already done then you click on that note in the list and right click and go to add to label (shoudl be the word in english) and select from the list where you want to put it ie soups etc and if its not in the list you click on add new label and type it in the box, make sure it has an x or whatever next to it in the list once added and click ok...hope that helps!
Bedlam the limit is a max per month and it refreshes every month so your only limited to how many you can add each month not the total...and no you can access it just on your pc but it wont syncronise if your not online...but you can access it just like any other application without being online
the school holidays started beginning of july and end beginning of september ...yay for all stay at home mums arrgghhh lol...august is the worst for holiday makers as thats when most people are on holidays but not to worry most of the french go south so paris etc is usually fairly quiet compared to normal but downside patisseries and shops in general etc close up shop for the month of august but for food stuffs there still has to be one open in each quartier normally but its usually not as convenient...lucky for you that you are coming to paris when all kiddies will be safe back at school lol...ooo the market tour will be fun...i love going to the markets wherever we are travelling too...you always find great local produce and items... and what cooking class are you gong to bedlam...do tell ;D oh and enjoy your trip!!
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Frozzie,
I am not sure really, it's a small class. We go around the market and then back to a locals home with the purchases. Hope it is going to be good, it appealed for 3 reasons, the market tour and hands on with not many people. We then eat the products we have made. So perhaps expensive but a meal out!
Thanks for the info on evernote, I was transferring from my notes early this morn and my notes locked up. I haven't been courageous enough to go back and have another look. Scared I have lost all my wonderful saved recipes :-\
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Sounds good and local is usually good...would be interested to know too if its someone 'foreign' or french doing the class...just depends on who is dong the teaching I guess...will love to hear about it once you have done it to let me know if its good or not and then the info..always handy to have it for other visitors etc
im sure your recipes are fine...evernote is centrally backed up so as long as you dont forget your login and password you should be fine :)
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Frozzie, thank you, now have recipes in categories, not sure if i have done it right, but it works for me atm. I couldnt find the add to label that you were talking about. Its going to take a long time to add all my recipes, but its fantastic.
Hally :)
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Hally when you first add the recipe it has no label ie soups etc and is just a note. If you right click on the file name in the list format right at the bottom of that drop box is add to label then it opens up the list of labels you have created and at the bottom of that box is add a new label if the recipe or note you have doesnt 'fit' into one of the existing categories/labels.
Hope thats clearer ;D
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Ok, totally confused... But it diesnt take much these days.
I click on new note, new note apears, it has a top the cross 3 icons, video, photo album and camera, to the left is
Title,
Notebook,
Tags
That is all i have, is that what yours looks like
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I just copy and past recipe,then hit tag- add description ie main,then it title - recipe name,then hit save. Done.
I really like it,you can then go into just one category. Also can tag something twice like main/ vegetarian.
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will depend on what layout you have set it as...mine has the list of notes above or on the top part of the screen and if i click on a note then i see it on the bottom part of the screen...kind of like some email software like outlook etc and on the left side of the screen is all the labels
try bedlams way ok so just saw its tag not label so you should have add to tag in the drop box when you right click on a note name in the list????? it is quite easy and yes you can add one recipe/note to several tags... just play around with it and you will figure it out or go to help and search and maybe it will explain it better for you :)
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Thanks frozzie & Bedlam, finally got something that looks good
:) now to add more and more and more
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:) :) :) :) :)
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Yes, I am pleased. Thanks for your help Frozzie. Taking ages to copy over but I think worth it.
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no problem...yes it does take ages at first but now i just add them as i see them or cook something then i copy it over that way also i have a digital copy of the recipe ...helps too when i need to translate a recipe i just bring it up translate and then recopy it in a new note... another one of my girlfriends recently bought a thermomix so i send her recipes i like as i convert or translate them :)