What are you been cooking today

[obbie]

I made a cheesecake.

[maddy]

All cooking was done yesterday, but making the sauce for this now.
 http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/23805/cranberry+and+walnut+brie
....on a much smaller scale than recipe of corse....don't think I've ever seen a 3 kg wheel of Brie 

[kyton]

Chocolate cake, banana bread already cooked. Next up is a zucchini slice and possibly pecan maple cinnamon buns.

[droverjess]

I made this for old friends as I learnt yesterday that their Golden wedding was today.



And these for us with leftover mixture.



It was a gingerbread mix similar to this http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/24315/sticky-gingerbread-cake.asp
with 125g dried apricots cooked and puréed and added in before the eggs.

[Amy :-)]

Great baking DJ!

We were given some apples yesterday so I might look for a recipe in my cookbooks to convert
Oh, but I'm cooking hot cross bun pudding... The apples might have to wait

[Amanda]

Moroccan food for lunch today!
Salmon poached in a broth made from honey, coriander, preserved lemon, spring onions and ginger, harcha - a traditional Moroccan bread - & vegetable couscous.
Cheese for dessert - I think there will be enough chocolate about to cater for anyone's need for sweets.   

[Amanda]

All cooking was done yesterday, but making the sauce for this now.
 http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/23805/cranberry+and+walnut+brie
....on a much smaller scale than recipe of corse....don't think I've ever seen a 3 kg wheel of Brie 

I love the look of that sauce - would be lovely just over a plain Brie.  I don't think I could bring myself to combine good cheese like the recipe says - seems wrong somehow.   

[obbie]

Great cake Jess.

[achookwoman]

GC picked the first apples from the trees.  I baked them with dates in the middle and sprinkled with crumble.

[cookie1]

Lovely cake DJ. I am sure your friends loved it.
Chookie the apples sound delicious.

I have made some plum jam/ jelly this morning in other gadget. I am pleased with the taste and have now done the next step in the jelly mixture. Hopefully some mini hot cross buns this afternoon.

[goldfish]

DJ - If someone had baked and decorated that that especially for me on such a special occasion, I'd be over the moon!!  That was so very thoughtful of you!!  I'm sure your friends love you for it!!

Chookie - it's lovely to imagine those children picking the first apples of the season.  On Friday, DD, DS and I went up to the Blue Mountains - Bilpin and Mt Irvine.  We bought three bags of apples at one place - Fuji, Jonathan and I can't remember the name of the third type. - This was through Bilpin . .

At Mt Irvine, we visited the Kookootonga Nut Farm  http://www.kookootonga.com.au/index.cfm  where DS and DD collected around 10 kgs of chestnuts.  We tried for walnuts, too, but there were very few left by the time we decided that walnuts would be good, too  I was really amazed at the large numbers of Chinese and Korean people who were there collecting bags and bags of both nuts! On the way back, though, we came across a stall selling kg bags of walnuts for the same price as at the farm    Thought this would be an excellent opportunity to make your Fig and Walnut Roll   http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=11905.0   Just need to round up the dried figs!

When we got home, DD made the Apple Crumble from My Way of Cooking p. 222 - one of the quickest and most simple desserts to make!  The filling is simply apples, lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon.  The crumble just butter, sugar, flour and salt.  Hot out of the oven and with a dollop of Greek yogurt - just superb on a lovely autumn evening!

The chestnuts we will freeze (didn't know you could do this until I saw this    http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111117070833AAEixs4  )

DD is very keen to try to reproduce a chestnut paste she had in France - (I think from memory she said it had chestnuts, sugar and vanilla - if there was anything else I can't remember atm.)  She told me she has spent the morning boiling and peeling around 600 gm of them - she was not impressed with their reluctance to separate from the peel . .

[jakodai]

Today I have made:
*The KFC Chicken Spice Mix
*Chocolate Cupcakes - non thermomix, although I did melt the chocolate & water together in my thermomix... :-)
*Vegetable stock concentrate
*and I also added the celery seeds to Tenina's chicken stock powder, because it arrived the other day - I bought it online.

I'm also going to make French Onion Soup Mix

[Kimmyh]

Everyone's cooking looks fab.

Made vegetarian sausage rolls, EDC creamy tomato sauce to go over some gnocchi and kafir lime white choc panecotta for tomorrow night.

[cookie1]

I have DJ's Malt Loaf rising at the moment. It smells lovely.

[maddy]

DJ...your such a sweetie    I love anything ginger'esque...will check it out  

I love the look of that sauce - would be lovely just over a plain Brie.  I don't think I could bring myself to combine good cheese like the recipe says - seems wrong somehow.  

Trust me....it's worth doing Amanda....OMG....delish!!

I used a 200g Brie, used dried craisins, and 1/4'd everything else....next time I will increase the port sauce to 1/2, as it was so good  





highly recommend....here's the link if anyone is interested
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/23805/cranberry+and+walnut+brie

I also made tandoori chicken salad



And  carrot cupcakes with cream cheese icing





Chookies Swedish ice cream cheesecake didn't leave the freezer though....stuffed from the cheese I suspect....so will post a pic when it comes to light  

Oh and  Dad came with his olie bollen  (Dutch Doughnuts)....mandatory for occasions  



Forgot to add thermo18's yummy brown rice salad