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Introduce Yourself / Re: One more Aussie
« on: November 11, 2009, 01:57:24 pm »
Thanks everyone.

Yes I do tend to buy myself some pretty good Xmas/birthday pressies.  Well they are the only ones I get and YES I am worth it.

Can't wait to get stuck into the huge list of Vege recipes. But sadly no time for the next couple of days.  Going to a haloumi/mozzarella making workshop in Melbourne. Hmn love my food.   :D

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello from Ballarat
« on: November 11, 2009, 01:53:44 pm »
There is a consultant (Jude) in Horsham who's daughter lives in Hamilton.  She managed to combine a few things down this way when mine was ready for delivery.

Do you have a consultant in Ballarat?  I can pass on Jude's details if you need.

I really need some spare time to play with my TMX but I'm just so busy.

So far I have made:
the standard (almost) mushroom risotto - was great but makes a lot so I was eating leftovers for a while.
Quinoa - which wasn't a disaster but did pose some problems - I have a thread about it in technical questions.
Green smoothies - I can't believe how easy it is to make these as I was using a clapped out old blender before.

And now I've found this forum I have a huge list of recipes from the Vegetarian thread to try next week when I have some time at home.

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Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide / Re: Cooking quinoa
« on: November 11, 2009, 09:30:21 am »
Quote from: Tebasile on November 10, 2009, 06:28:05 pm
I cook  100g quinoa ( washed and drained in a fine-mesh strainer)  with 300g water for 14-15min / 100*C/ speed 1 in the TM-Bowl.



Thankyou guru Tabasile.  It always pays to employ the KISS principle.!!!   I half wondered about doing it this way but being a newbie, doubted myself and followed the book.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello from Ballarat
« on: November 11, 2009, 09:25:11 am »
Hello Susan

I'm over in Hamilton.  I took delivery of my TMX last week so I'm still very much a newbie.

Heather

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Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide / Re: Cooking quinoa
« on: November 10, 2009, 03:20:58 pm »
Ha ha. Shows you how much I know  :-)) I've never made a steamed pudding  :o

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Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide / Re: Cooking quinoa
« on: November 10, 2009, 06:35:25 am »
Quote from: quirkycooking on November 10, 2009, 05:28:44 am
I was also wondering if it would work to line the Varoma with wet baking paper and put the quinoa on that?  Maybe...
Yes it probably would work like that too.  I'm looking for convenience and sustainability when I'm suggesting using a nut milk bag.  I could put the quinoa in, rinse in the bag, flatten the bag on the varoma tray then just invert the bag at the end of cooking time.  Rinse and dry bag ready for next use. 

Just a thought.  Needs testing.  There aren't  any  health issues with steaming a muslin nut milk bag are there?

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Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide / Re: Cooking quinoa
« on: November 10, 2009, 03:40:53 am »
Thanks for the feedback.  :)

I just did an experiment and found that unsoaked quinoa of any colour will fall through the slots on both the basket and the top varoma tray.  Red quinoa is a smaller grain than white - black is even smaller again.  Red also doesn't need soaking as the red and black quinoa don't have the saponin coating.

I am a time poor cook (shift worker and unorganised!) so don't always have the option of soaking my quinoa - that's one of the many reasons why I eat the red one - has much more flavour too.

Basmati rice is fine in the basket.

Thanks for the idea about steaming the quinoa in the varoma.  I think I'll try that next but put it inside a nut milk bag so I don't lose any.

And Yes Please quirkycooking to the Mexican quinoa recipe.  :) :) :)

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Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide / Cooking quinoa
« on: November 09, 2009, 04:06:05 pm »
Hi
I'm wheat free so eat a lot of quinoa.

Went to cook some red quinoa in the basket of the thermomix and found that a lot falls through the slots. Also a lot gets stuck in the slots.  Seems very wasteful.

Any suggestions?  I thought maybe putting the quinoa inside a nut milk bag.  I'm wondering if I will have the same problem with basmati rice too as that is quite narrow as well.

Thanks

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Introduce Yourself / One more Aussie
« on: November 09, 2009, 03:47:03 pm »
Hi

I just bought myself a Thermomix for my Xmas pressie.  Saw a demo about 12 months ago and thought nice if I had some spare cash.  Well time came for a new blender and the one I wanted was expensive so the Thermo won out.

Haven't had enough time to play with it yet but do have some specific questions which I will post in the appropriate places.

I'm a wheat free vegetarian half way to raw and need scaled down recipes for one.

Tried the risotto recipe and will be eating it for a week now  :o

Looking forward to lots of discoveries here.

Cheers
Heather


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