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Cakes / Re: Whole Orange Cake
« on: June 22, 2011, 07:51:47 am »
Sounds amazing. I would really like to know if it would work with gluten free flour, anyone tried it???

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Help. I think the bread from the gf cookbook tastes pretty good and is not difficult to make. I slice it and freeze it and it keeps together nicely but it does seem to fall apart as a sandwich which can't eat without a knife and fork. Before I experiment (often costly and with bad results) is it the eggs or the lack of gluten that make it fall apart?  I read somewhere where you can add physillium husks to help 'glue it together", anyone tried this. I sometimes think that maybe the eggs make it more cake like - is this true?

Any comments would be welcome

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Recipe Requests / Re: Yogurt... still confused!
« on: April 21, 2011, 05:03:44 am »

I have just read the posts on this

Making yoghurt should not be complicated.  I make it all the time using the EDC recipe heating it for only 20 mins, cooling until it feels warm to my little finger (clean!!!) - about 90 mins if you take it off the TM and leave it on the bench, add the yoghurt - I started with Jalna low-fat but am now just recycling my own yoghurt. I then mix for 10 secs at speed 4, then 37 degrees speed 1 for 10 mins. It then goes in the container of an Easi-Yo ($20 at K-Mart - I'm going to buy a second one so I can make a double lot).

The Easi-Yo instructions tell you to use boiling water  to keep the yogurt warm but their powdered product is made using cold milk. As 'our' yoghurt comes out warm from the TM you can end up overheating your precious bacteria  by using boiling water which will give you runny yogurt. If you just use water hot enough to put your finger in but too hot to leave it there it is perfect.

I leave the Easi-Yo on the bench for at least 12 hours  ( a couple more won't hurt) before putting the yoghurt  in the fridge. I have an empty Jalna container which also fits perfectly into the Easi-Yo insulated container which I currently alternate  with their big red lidded tall one. Currently I'm using the $2 light milk. My yoghurt is amazing, probably the best I've ever eaten. I've made yoghurt off and on for years using most methods you've ever heard off and this is the simplest and best ever.

I had a couple of runny numbers when I first got  my TM and worked out that the two things that made yoghurt runny were water too hot in the Easi-yo and too short a time I.E less than 12 hours on bench before refrigerating.

My phliosophy is that I spent all this money on this wonderful appliance in order to make my life easier and not more complicated and to date it has never let me down except for trying to brown onions. After owning Harriet for 8 months we are still an item and very much in love, well at least I am.





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Recipe Book Recipe Reviews / Re: Portuguese Cookbook Index
« on: March 17, 2011, 11:30:57 am »
Where can I buy the Portuguese cookbook, looked at the index and it sounds good.

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Bread / Re: Isi´s easy Portuguese Rolls
« on: January 22, 2011, 08:48:32 pm »
Found isi's recipe before going to bed last night. Have ten for lunch today dh was going to buy bread on his way home but not any more. Isi I lived in Portugal for eleven years and love the bread - beats the French I think. So this will be my first try to make some popsecos!  I'm gluten intolerant but rebel now and again - tho do make gf bread in tm and it is amazing. I go to Petersham to eat pasteIs da nata and just pretend they are gf. I've got some bakers flour so will make your bread now, and pretend that it is gf too, I find now that the odd breakout is ok. I've got my tm butter made already. I've been a breadmaker for ever so am excited. 

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Cakes / Re: Zebra Cake
« on: September 24, 2010, 02:00:52 pm »
Wow don't you just like making things that leave people flabbergasted? Isi if you are Portuguese, have you made the Pasteis de Nata (recipe found in this forum), if so tell me re the pastry. I thought the Portuguese rolled it, sliced it then pressed it into the tin to get the true result - the recipe says just cut it but hat doesn't seem right. Also is it necessary to use just egg yolks or can you cheat with whole eggs? I am not Portuguese but I lived there for 11 years, speak the language, mais o menos and love the food.

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Recipe Book Recipe Reviews / Re: Potato Gnocchi -EDC
« on: September 24, 2010, 05:29:46 am »
After previously making mashed potatoes in the tm and having a scrubathon afterwards to clean the gorgeous Harriet, last night I cooked the potatoes in the basket in my pressure cooker for 7 mins - they come out very dry, perfect for mashing (yes, I love Harriet but she is not always the answer to everything) and THEN I heated milk and butter in the tm bowl, added the potatoes and a few seconds later - perfection. I think I will try Gnocchi using the same principle but without any heat in the TM of course. I am gf and haven't had gnocchi since I joined the gf mob so the ricotta and potato flour sounds great.

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Chit Chat / Re: I've done it or my DH has
« on: September 16, 2010, 12:09:41 pm »
Well I've had another go at the GF porridge. I'm getting more comfortable with the Harriet each day. I noticed that ordinary porridge  is cooked at 90 but the GF is 100 which makes it behave like mud pools in a geyser. SO  I had a shot using only 90 and its was great, I just love all the goody goodness that go into it. Now all you good people out there HELP please. We had some friends round last night and my husband said that I would cook them dinner using the tmx. I have this great casserole recipe for chicken from the wonderful Delicious Mag (in the oven) and there are four large onions sliced and browned for 20 mins in a frypan. I thought Harriet would do a splendid job. Well, and I mean well, - the onions after 20 mins were pale green and STEWED, not the lovely caramel look I was after. Question, should I stick to the frypan and the never ending stirring or is there a trick with browning onions that I am not privy to. The meal was still good, but I knew that I had used stewed onions!! I did make a great risotto and at the end of the meal whizzed up frozen low fat vanilla yoghurt frozen cubes with frozen blueberries and OMG we were all gobsmacked it was so delish. All this was for four of us playing a friendly game of bridge, and our friends said we didn't have to feed them so much. My comment was that I had to try these things with other people as I can't justify doing it for just us two, - we'd turn into elephants.

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Main Dishes / Re: Moussaka
« on: September 06, 2010, 10:31:20 am »
Made the moussaka tonight, a great success. I used one and half quantities of the white sauce and cooked it as per gf recipe using cornflour for the sauce. While I was cooking the meat and veg I heated the milk up in a pot (oh yes there ARE other ways to heat things up) with half an onion, cloves, cinnamon and a bay leaf, turned it off, then after everything was ready to go strained it into the TMX, made the sauce with the superbly flavoured milk, very nice tooooooo. I loved the way the steamed potato slice stayed nicely intact so were easy to spread over the meat and aubergine.

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Chit Chat / Re: I've done it or my DH has
« on: September 05, 2010, 11:23:36 am »
Think I'll stick to the pot with gf porridge,  - its much finer than oats. DH cooked beef stroganoff last night, and he doesn't do anything but boiled eggs, it was excellent. I made apple polenta cake, nice but not a cake its a pudding so didn't take it to GD party, made the carrot and almond cake from GF cookbook, - very easy and everyone loved it, might cook it for 10 mins more - I think I took it out of the dinner too early. Made juice this morning from beetroot, carrot, celery, apple and ginger this morning, -very nice indeed. Was just about to dump the residue into worm farm offerings but tasted it and think I might boil it add it to left over pasta sauce and mashed potato , add some spinach leaves and see if it makes a half decent soup - I am the soup magician, even make it with left over salad!!!!!!  I'm a war baby and tho that is a long time ago my frugal upbringing sticks.

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Recipe Book Recipe Reviews / Re: Sticky date pudding and caramel sauce
« on: September 04, 2010, 01:55:47 pm »
If you cooked them in muffin trays, could you freeze them?????

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News about Thermomix / Re: List of Demonstrators
« on: September 02, 2010, 03:21:36 pm »
Any one know of a good demonstrator in Auckland NZ.

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Chit Chat / Re: I've done it or my DH has
« on: September 02, 2010, 09:32:43 am »
Had a home demo - for some mad friends and DD who is planning to buy one, now have a thermosaver too. I'm finding a few hiccups with the cookbook - think cooking pasta sauce at Varoma temp. is too hot, - any comments, sauce is delish but had to be watered down and the whole thing steamed up new kitchen something awful!!

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Recipe Book Recipe Reviews / Re: Red Onion Relish
« on: August 31, 2010, 02:44:05 pm »
I made the relish today, it tasted good but had enormous bits in it, even though I only used 120 of red wine as DH was out and was nervous about opening a bottle of good stuff to top it off. It doesn't taste so good anymore 'cos I thought i'd chop it up a bit and now have onion relish baby food!!! I'm a novice, Harriet (my TMX) and I celebrate our one week relationship tomorrow so I think I badly underestimate her extreme power. I did sample some on top of cheese on a cracker and it wasn't that bad. I'm sure DH will enjoy it, he eats everything I make with dare I say it extreme relish, ha ha. Does anyone have any suggestions on making this relish better?

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Chit Chat / Re: I've done it or my DH has
« on: August 30, 2010, 02:39:51 pm »
Thanks to you all for your warm and encouraging responses. Unfortunately rye and oats are not gf, though I do seem ok with spelt.  Last night made the steamed Asian fish with rice and veges from the book, must admit I was sceptical about it, thinking maybe I could do better - sorry Harriet you win, it was fabulous and without any fat. Have just made yoghurt, bought the Easi Yo container just to keep it warm, but used a set yoghurt as the starter. Wednesday night we are hosting a demo, mostly people my husband has enthused with, he exaggerates a lot but don't think they'll be disappointed except I think he's invited them to a dinner party, don't know how everyone will react to our lovely consultants small disposable containers. It could be a true test of friendship! I'm planning to make the apple polenta cake from the gf book to take to grand daughter's bday, has anyone made it?

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