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Chit Chat / Re: Warning; coarse language
« on: February 15, 2015, 12:17:03 am »
I thought this was really funny. I particularly liked the bits where one of the cooks was crying into the onions and also where the non tmx cook was slaving for hours stirring the risotto on the stove, while the tmx cook just had a good time doing other things.


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Desserts / Dairy and egg free icecream - yonanas recipe book
« on: June 08, 2014, 01:12:19 am »
I have just come across the yonanas machine. I looked at in Good guys and the machine itself looked a bit flimsy, but there was a separate recipe book for $9.95 that came with it so I bought it with the thermomix in mind - thinking it would do a better job than the yonanas machine. I am going to work my way through it.

Here's the recipes page on the yonanas website http://yonanas.com.au/recipes/

The first recipe below was okay - nothing outstanding, certainly not on a par with my plain bananas, pecan nuts and honey icecream. I think I will need to experiment a bit with fruit out of the freezer times

Recipe number 1 Greek Sunrise

Ingredients
2 bananas chopped into 2 cm rounds and frozen for at least 12 hours
1 cup frozen apple pieces (not too large)
1/4 tsp of cinnamon
15 g honey.

Directions
Put all ingredients into tmx and process for about 20 seconds on speed 9. Scrape down sides as necessary.


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Special Diets / Re: Vanilla cupcakes, chocolate icing (GF, cane sugar free)
« on: September 18, 2012, 01:57:09 pm »
I'm glad you like the icing Kerryn. I love it myself - as somebody who can't have cane sugar - it is a great chocolate fix! My friends love it too.

Brenda, coconut flour is defatted dessicated coconut - pretty tricky to make yourself. I buy it from health food shops - although it is not always easy to find. You don't need very much as it gobbles up liquid. It makes fantastic cupcakes :-)

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Special Diets / Vanilla cupcakes, chocolate icing (GF, cane sugar free)
« on: September 17, 2012, 10:22:13 pm »
This is one of my favourite recipes. I make this all the time put the cupcakes in the freezer and take them out for a pre breakfast snack with a cup of fennel, liqorice and peppermint tea

From Elana's pantry and cupcake book. I have modified some of the ingredients, measurements, added weights and the chocolate icing recipe is my own.
http://www.elanaspantry.com/vanilla-cupcakes-with-chocolate-frosting/

Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Icing

Cupcakes
    ½ cup (50g) coconut flour, sifted
    1/4 teaspoon murray river gourmet salt
    1/2 teaspoon baking soda
    6 eggs
    ½ cup (100g) ricebran oil
    ½ cup (170g) honey
    1 tsp vanilla extract

Icing
    60 g butter (in small squares)
    20g cacao powder (I use Ecuadorian)
    90g honey
   1/8 tsp murray river gourmet salt (I only need this if I am not using the amazing Ecuadorian cacao)

Make Icing first
Put all ingredients into tmx bowl. Set temperature to 80 deg and mix on speed 1 for 3 mins or until all melted and blended. Pour into another bowl and put in fridge.

Cupcakes
   1.  In a medium bowl, combine coconut flour, salt and baking soda
   2.  In the thermomix, blend together eggs, ricebran oil, honey and vanilla
   3.  Add dry ingredients and blend in tmx until smooth for about 10-15 seconds
   4.  Pour batter into muffin/cupcake tin lined with cupcake papers
   5.  Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes
   6.  Cool completely
   7.  Top with chocolate icing. You may need to microwave this slightly so it spreads easily after being in the fridge.
   8.  Eat cupcakes immediately or store in the freezer and reheat in microwave for 20 seconds.

Makes 12 cupcakes

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Special Diets / choc coconut fudge (DF, GF, cane sugar free)
« on: December 28, 2011, 04:53:39 am »
Here are my original sources for the recipe http://www.superkitchenmachine.com/2011/11949/make-coconut-butter-thermomi.html
and http://deliciouslyorganic.net/coconut-almond-fudge-recipe-paleo/

Chocolate coconut fudge

Ingredients

400g shredded coconut
30g cacao powder
200g honey/maple syrup / agave syrup
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tsp salt

Instructions

1. Prepare 9 inch square baking tin by lining with baking paper.

2. Place coconut in tmx bowl and process at speed 8 for 2 minutes until it has turned into a thick liquid. Scrape down the sides a couple of times as you process.

3. Add other ingredients and process for 30 seconds at speed 8

4. Spatula thick mixture into tin and flatten with back of a spoon. Cut into squares with a small pizza cutter.

5. Put into fridge to chill for a couple of hours until firm. Recut the squares.

This is surprisingly delicious. If anybody has any tweaks they would like to add please pass them on! Don't overprocess otherwise the coconut oil starts to separate out which is what it did to me! I used honey.


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Special Diets / Re: protein smoothie recipe request
« on: December 18, 2011, 11:29:58 pm »
Thank you so much Squirrel! I'm so grateful!

That is exactly what I was looking for. One has to be really creative when one is on such a restricted diet.  :)
This will be my breakfast tomorrow after I have purchased the ingredients I don't have already!

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Special Diets / Re: protein smoothie recipe request
« on: December 18, 2011, 01:20:29 am »
Thanks, I have been hunting around for a while and was hoping that somebody might know a recipe ready to hand!

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Special Diets / Re: protein smoothie recipe request
« on: December 18, 2011, 01:15:02 am »
Just did a bit of internet research and found that the terms first and second class proteins are now out of date. Complete protein seems to be more current - but some sources say that this is out of date too! In any case what I am referring to are food combinations or foods that provide all the essential proteins.

Here is the wikipedia explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein

Although I am not a vegetarian this list of what to combine in order to get complete protein in the diet is useful http://www.sheknows.com/food-and-recipes/articles/802982/get-your-protein-with-meatless-combinations

Quinoa looks very good on this front. I might try and track down a recipe for quinoa milk and maybe I could modify Cyndi O'Meara's protein shake. I am not keen on the raw eggs in it tho'.

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Special Diets / Re: protein smoothie recipe request
« on: December 18, 2011, 12:00:44 am »
I was just about to edit my original post. It has to be soy free as well. - so many exclusions!  :)

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Special Diets / protein smoothie recipe request
« on: December 17, 2011, 11:49:23 pm »
I am looking for a recipe for a breakfast protein smoothie that meets the following requirements  :)

1. gluten and grain free (although quinoa would be ok)
2. dairy free
3. first class protein
4. protein powder free
5. cane sugar free
6. soy free

If you could help I would be eternally grateful!! (Yes, I know not a great deal is left - but at least it doesn't need to be nut or honey or fruit free!)

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Chit Chat / Re: Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD)
« on: January 07, 2011, 02:05:26 am »
Jo, the chocolate brownies recipe that I posted on the special diets forum is one from a scd book. But I have used cacao in it instead of lemon juice. To make it really strict you could omit the cocoa powder and use 1 tsp of lemon juice. The recipe just uses baking soda as well.

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4654.0

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Chit Chat / Re: Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD)
« on: January 07, 2011, 12:51:42 am »
Hi Jo, the honey does produce a particular flavour and result - but I am getting used to it and continue to experiment! Unfortunately nothing beats sugar and wheat in baking.  :(

I have to admit I am not very strict on the baking powder front but the recipes in the scd books just seem to use straight bicarb soda and it seems to work fine. See for example some of the recipes here http://www.scdiet.org/2recipes/cooki01.html

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Chit Chat / Re: Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD)
« on: January 07, 2011, 12:21:51 am »
Thank you for all these great posts. Sorry for my delayed reply - my email notifications wasn't working!

One good thing about the diet is that there are some really good cookbooks (eg Sandra Ramacher's Healing Foods) - this makes it a lot easier to comply! I couldn't handle cutting out sugars entirely (my energy starts to dip too much) - so having honey and fruit in the scd suits me really well - and I'm not allergic to them. Dairy at least in limited amounts seems to be fine for me as well. But there is no question the scd diet (with a few minor modifications) seems to work better for me than anything else.

The one thing that I haven't been able to do is make the yoghurt. I find this a totally daunting prospect. SCD yoghurt needs to be fermented for 24 hours and I don't think any of the commercial ones are fermented this long. Fermenting it for 24 hours apparently gets rid of the lactose but keeps all the good cultures in there which assist with gut healing. Any hints (or links to other discussions) on how I could do this kind of yoghurt would be greatly appreciated!

Jo thank you very much for the tip about how much honey to substitute for the rapadura in your recipes. I love your recipes but have often wondered how much honey to substitute for the rapadura and of course I can't use spelt. I made your hazelnut brownies using honey for a party and everybody absolutely loved them. I don't really like stevia or agave syrup, but xylitol is not too bad for some applications on occasion. Honey is the best for me however.

It is indeed a challenging diet. The worst is trying to be able to find something when I eat out - not always possible. I am suffering today from some food I ate yesterday. I would absolutely not be able to do this diet without the thermomix. It would simply be too time consuming and difficult. The thermomix is an absolute lifesaver!

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Special Diets / Almond and coconut cake - grain and sugar free
« on: December 17, 2010, 08:33:05 am »
I am on a really strict diet at present and was feeling miserable so googled almond and xylitol - which I can have and found a really delicious recipe which I have modified in a number of ways and converted for the tmx. This is helping to make the diet more bearable!

110g coconut oil
100g xylitol
140g almonds
2 tbsp dessicated coconut (I used American 15mls)
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
2 eggs
2 tbsp (US) milk

Grease 4.5" by 8.5" loaf pan and line with baking paper and preheat oven to 350F/180C

1. Process Almonds 8 seconds speed 7. Set aside.
2. Mix almonds with dessicated coconut, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl.
3. Cream coconut oil with xylitol 10 secs speed 3
4. Add one egg at a time - speed 3 -4 until fully blended
5. Add milk and a bit more mixing.
6. Add dry ingredients and mix at speed 4-5 for 20 secs (?) until thick
7. Spoon into prepared loaf pan
8. Bake for 30 minutes

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Chit Chat / Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD)
« on: December 12, 2010, 11:06:40 pm »
Is anybody else on the forum trying the Specific Carbohydrate Diet?  If so I would love to link up! I'm not hugely strict about it - eg I will eat rice and potatos and organic cocoa powder - but stick to pretty much the rest of it.

See here for info if you are curious http://altmedicine.about.com/od/popularhealthdiets/a/specific_carb.htm

Clare

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