In bed with heavy cold, easy soup please

[Halex]

Thanks frozzie, i down loaded  the free app. Wednesdsy ds at tennis for 1 hour so while watching will figure it out.

Sounds to good to be true.

I must admit i love my ipad nearly as much as my tm, they work very well together.

Yes feeling heaps better now thanks
Hally

[Decadent Dot]

Perhaps we should have this soup recipe at the ready for when we feel a cold coming on and then freeze portions.

 This family favourite soup is amazing in its restorative powers. As well as boosting the immune system it warms and nourishes anyone who is feeling under the weather due to the beginning symptoms of a cold or the flu.  it helps to restore  health quickly and have often seen it help to heal people, sometimes in as little as 2 or 3 hours after eating a good portion! Garlic, onions, chilli, ginger and good homemade chicken stock all have well known immune supporting abilities. Makes 1.5 litres. Written by Janie of UK Thermomix.com


Name of Recipe: Bug Beater Soup
Copied from   UKThermomix.com list of recipes
Number of People: 5/6
Ingredients:
3 to 4 cloves garlic, peeled
2 onions, peeled and quartered
2 to 4 cm ginger root, sliced into 2 mm “coins” along the lines on the skin
½ fresh or dried chilli
30 g chicken fat (from the top of your homemade stock) or olive oil
350 g your favourite vegetable/s for a soup – see suggestions below
60 g red lentils, ground or whole
up to 1 litre good homemade chicken stock – made in TM (or water if you are a vegetarian)
1 heaped tsp TM stock paste or ¾ tsp salt
freshly ground pepper

Preparation:
1. Chop garlic, onions, ginger and chilli with the chicken fat or olive oil 5 seconds/Speed 7.
2. Sauté 5 minutes/100°C/Speed 1.
3. Add vegetables cut into 2 to 3 cm lumps and lentils. Chop at Speed 4½ for a few seconds (you’ll hear when it’s done). Scrape down the sides of the TM bowl with the TM spatula.
4. Add stock or water up to the 1.5 litre mark on the inside of the TM bowl. Add stock paste if using. Cook 15 minutes/100°C/Speed 2.
5. Add salt if you didn’t use stock paste. Add several grinds of pepper. Blend 1 minute/Speed 10. Check seasoning by tasting again and adjust if necessary, then enjoy a big bowl full!

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This family favourite soup is amazing in its restorative powers. As well as boosting the immune system it warms and nourishes anyone who is feeling under the weather due to the beginning symptoms of a cold or the flu. I invented it to restore health quickly and have often seen it help to heal people, sometimes in as little as 2 or 3 hours after eating a good portion! Garlic, onions, chilli, ginger and good homemade chicken stock all have well known immune supporting abilities. Makes 1.5 litres

[Bedlam]

Frozzie, do you use it to store recipes? I want some way of sorting my stored recipes and thought it looked good.

[Twitterpated]

Hi Bedlam, I use evernote to store all my recipes as I have long given up on printing them out because:
a) Trying to do my bit for the environment
b) I still cant find the recipe I'm looking for when I want it, even though I had them sorted in folders.

I have found evernote very easy to use and tag all my recipes (e.g. Main Meals, Dessert, Quick, etc) so it's easy to find them again. I also add a checkbox beside the name of the recipe and tick it if I have made the recipe and then use a scoring system as well. You can also add hyperlinks so I add these in each recipe so that I can link back to original posts if I want to read the comments.
Each week when I do my menu planning I add the "This Week" tag so I can quickly find the recipe when needed. When I have cooked it I then remove that tag. There is also a very easy search facility that you can use to find your recipes.
I have evernote downloaded on my phone so I can check my recipes at any time (e.g. if I am at the shops).
Hope this has helped.

[trudy]

Get well quickly Hally.

[Halex]

DD excellent recipe, thank you, will make it next time one of us sick. I have 1 litre of stock in freezer for emergency.

Thanks Hally

[Bedlam]

Thanks twitterpated,
Sounds exactly what I was looking for. I have just been using notes but hard to file that way.
Do you have the free one? I have copied about 300 recipes into notes,when i plan a menu I sort through that.easier than going through all the forum. Is that too big for the free version do you think?

[Frozzie]

sorry bedlam...shopping trip with the kids and just got back..arrgghhh bring back school lol!

yes i use evernote to store all of my recipes and actually anything online...as i look every day in new recipes i just copy and paste them as i see them..usually a couple a day but at first i did copy quite a lot..stayed up rather late...I currently have 1400 notes mostly recipes lol...from forum and other blogs in both french and english also other recipes sites with recipes that interest me and i have put to convert..all in seperate labels..sorry i have the french version so mine is all in french but its the french word for label in english ...i imagine its the same...I have put thermomix and non thermomix labels then under thermomix for example all the different catergories and sub categories..exactly like you would if you were organising them ion a printed file..sometimes i copy them in two labels so they are easier to find under a specific label....its not as beautifully layed out as some software but the advantage with this one is its exactly like an electronic notebook and you can write all sorts of things in it...what i love is if i have forgotten to add something to the shopping list for a certain recipe i just look it up on my iphone at the supermarket and voila...i know exactly what i need..if im with friends or at a shop and see something same thing i can note it down electronically and then search online later if i want to...possibilites are endless really...and its very easy to use!! 

Its better to sort htem under labels as they are much easier to find than in one big group...hope it helps...if you have any questions just ask ..

[Bedlam]

Thanks Frozzie, it looks wonderful, I just got a bit worried when I saw there was a limit. If you have 1400 notes sound like it will be fine for me.  Can you only access it online, that was the other concern.
Have the kids just started hols, DH and I are coming to Paris after a couple of weeks in the UK, in a month. ( we are going to a car show in England so I have booked us a market tour and cooking class in Paris- only fair I thought!)
Good luck with keeping them entertained.

[Halex]

Ok girls, help needed
I have tranferred 6 recipes, i have out them into sections ie soup,  pasta etc. How do i create a new page in each section. I did 2 soups and they come up as different sections.

Help please
Hally

[Frozzie]

hally
you just click on new note which you may have already done then you click on that note in the list and right click and go to add to label (shoudl be the word in english) and select from the list where you want to put it ie soups etc and if its not in the list you click on add new label and type it in the box, make sure it has an x or whatever next to it in the list once added and click ok...hope that helps!

Bedlam the limit is a max per month and it refreshes every month so your only limited to how many you can add each month not the total...and no you can access it just on your pc but it wont syncronise if your not online...but you can access it just like any other application without being online

the school holidays started beginning of july and end beginning of september ...yay for all stay at home mums arrgghhh lol...august is the worst for holiday makers as thats when most people are on holidays but not to worry most of the french go south so paris etc is usually fairly quiet compared to normal but downside patisseries and shops in general etc close up shop for the month of august but for food stuffs there still has to be one open in each quartier normally but its usually not as convenient...lucky for you that you are coming to paris when all kiddies will be safe back at school lol...ooo the market tour will be fun...i love going to the markets wherever we are travelling too...you always find great local produce and items... and what cooking class are you gong to bedlam...do tell  oh and enjoy your trip!!

[Bedlam]

Frozzie,
I am not sure really, it's a small class. We go around the market and then back to a locals home with the purchases. Hope it is going to be good, it appealed for 3 reasons, the market tour and hands on with not many people. We then eat the products we have made. So perhaps expensive but a meal out!
Thanks for the info on evernote, I was transferring from my notes early this morn and my notes locked up. I haven't been courageous enough to go back and have another look. Scared I have lost all my wonderful saved recipes

[Frozzie]

Sounds good and local is usually good...would be interested to know too if its someone 'foreign' or french doing the class...just depends on who is dong the teaching I guess...will love to hear about it once you have done it to let me know if its good or not and then the info..always handy to have it for other visitors etc

im sure your recipes are fine...evernote is centrally backed up so as long as you dont forget your login and password you should be fine 

[Halex]

Frozzie, thank you, now have recipes in categories, not sure if i have done it right, but it works for me atm.  I couldnt find the add to label that you were talking about. Its going to take a long time to add all my recipes, but its fantastic.

Hally

[Frozzie]

Hally when you first add the recipe it has no label ie soups etc and is just a note.  If you right click on the file name in the list format right at the bottom of that drop box is add to label then it opens up the list of labels you have created and at the bottom of that box is add a new label if the recipe or note you have doesnt 'fit' into one of the existing categories/labels.

Hope thats clearer