Yum this one is great - made this tonight for dinner with baked potates, put some beetroot, grated cheese and sour cream on top - even my fussy eater managed to polish his off!  Thank you!   

Menu Planning is great!  I started menu planning again when I got my TM.  I am doing a Summer, Autumn, Winter & Spring menu over 4 weeks - we don't eat anything the same in the 4 weeks.  My most unwelcome job of the week was sitting down on Friday night working out what we were going to eat for the next week so I did the menu over 4 weeks and then I did up shopping lists for each week!  I then just have to mark off what we have and then buy what we don't have.  I sit down at my computer on Thursday night and do my fruit & veg order with First Froots and it gets delivered to my door on Friday afternoon straight from the markets and then I do my grocery order with Coles Online and then that gets delivered to my door.  I save myself about an hour at the shops - there is no stress as I don't have to be at the shops with the kids! and I save money too by not going to the shops and buying things I don't need!  I just have to go and get bread and milk basically!  I love it!   

Hi everyone - I take my TM caravanning - it is a must pack item! - but make sure you have the TM bag so that the scales don't get wrecked!  I like doing he one pot dishes so you don't have to buy heaps of stuff and usually put the vegie concentrate in the caravan fridge before we leave so I know I have that and don't have to buy cubes!

I kept my slow cooker and my Sunbeam mix master!

This one is delicious with or without the walnuts....

Something to do with the bananas lurking at the bottom of the fruit bowl
125g soft butter
220g caster sugar
2 medium eggs
225g SR flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 ripe bananas, chopped
90g walnuts, chopped, optional

Preheat oven to 180^oC

Chop walnuts 5 seconds speed 5, set aside (you don't have to have walnuts if you don't want them)

Cream butter & sugar for 20 seconds on speed 5

Add eggs and mix for 5 seconds on speed 5, scrape down sides and mix for further 5 seconds on speed 5

Add SR flour, vanilla, bananas, walnuts and mix for 20 seconds on speed 5

Scrape down sides and then mix for a further 10 seconds on speed 5

Put into a greased/lined square cake tin - about 20cm and bake for 20-25 minutes.

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING (YUM!)

250g philly cream cheese
100g caster sugar
2 tbsp lemon juice

Put all ingredients in bowl and mix for 20 seconds on speed 5, then lather onto cake!

This one is delicious with or without the walnuts....

Name of Recipe:  Spaghetti & Mince Meat Casserole
Number of People:  4-5
Ingredients:
250g spaghetti (or penne pasta)
500g minced steak
30g butter
1 clove garlic
1 onion
410g tomato puree
salt & pepper
oregano/mixed herbs
1/2 cup grated parmesan

1 quantity white sauce (as per EDC)

Preparation:
Cook the spaghetti/pasta as per EDC and place in a deep lasagne dish

Chop onion and garlic 8 seconds speed 7
Add 30g butter and saute 100^o for 2 minutes on speed 1
Add mince and cook at Varoma Temp 10 minutes   +  
Add tomato puree, salt, pepper and herbs and cook on Varoma Temp 15 minutes   +   (leave MC inclined to prevent spitting)

Once cooked put the meat mixture over the pasta and stir through in the lasagne dish

Make up white sauce (as per EDC) - needs to be of a thick consistency

Pour white sauce over top of the meat and pasta

Sprinkle with cheese

Bake uncovered in oven at 180^o for 30 minutes

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Tips/Hints:

Good one of freezing!

This is my first post - hope you enjoy!  

members' comments

Caroline J - I had to tweak this quite a bit because I didn't want to go to the shops in the rain. I used a pasta sauce instead of the tomatoes, added 2 roasted red capsicums as I needed to use them up, added 2 carrots to the onion and garlic to increase the vegie count, added frozen peas and corn to the meat sauce before cooking.  It really is a fantastic recipe that you can tweak and change easily. Anyway, the verdict- it's delicious!!  I had to use two baking dishes for this, so have frozen one as suggested. 5/5

Both of my sons love this recipe - even my fussy one!   Have made it about 4 times now and they ask for it every week!  Normally on a Wednesday after footy training!   I agree that there is a lot of extra sauce - I may also try using extra meat and maybe also adding some veg - however the fussy one might not eat it then? 

Made this tonight for dinner.  I put 700g meat, double mushrooms, handful or so of broccoli, and a small red capsicum...  I cooked it for an extra 10 minutes.  It was delicious over a bed of mashed potato - and a glass of red!!!!