Where have all the men gone?

[judydawn]

Hi Frans, nothing wrong with your communication skills - I am able to read you loud and clear.  You mentioned Filipino recipes in an earlier posting - have you got anything quick and easy you would like to share with us?

[achookwoman]

Hi Frans,  we have similar tastes.  I have had my TMX for 2 years , about 300 cooking books, 2 kenwoods, 2 slow cookers, 2 BBQ , but not as smart as yours.  No pressure cookers.  Please drop in again.

[Cuilidh]

Good to hear that Ed and Lee are still with us when they get the time - thanks for following up with them, Judy.  Hope we will hear from them again one day.

[judydawn]

I've also emailed Ted and Tarasis (Rob) to see how they both are so will report back if I hear from either of them.

[frans]

Hi Judy, thank you for your kind words. Here is a Filipino recipe that I have made a few times now and really enjoy .This is there national dish
sort of. there are many different recipes on the net. You can add whatever you prefere. there are also pork recipes or a combination of both chicken and pork. the base is soy and vinegar.
CHICKEN ADOBO:
one chicken cut up into serving pieces or chicken pieces
1/2 cup soy
3/4 cup white vinegar
Garlick as much as you would like,suggestion is one or two heads
bay leaves
peppercorns up to you.
salt to taste, careful here because of the soy.
procedure:
1/ place chicken,soy,vinegar,garlick,bay leaves and peppercorns in the pot and bring to the boil.
reduce the heat and simmer 30 min. you may want to add some water.
remove the chicken and slowly fry in a separate pot IE frying pan.
let the sauce in the pot boil until reduced by half. give and take.
return the chicken to the sauce ad season according to you liking. and serve. I like it with potatoes ,you may prefere rice and veggies.
you may be able to adapt to the thermomix I have not done it yet. Frans

[judydawn]

Thanks frans - we actually have Chicken Adobo here on the forum and I have done it a couple of times, delicious.

[Bedlam]

I too have been wondering how Lee and Ed were going.  You always have your finger on the pulse JD.

[Delightful Den]

Hi my name is Frans and i do read this forum everyday. According to the statistics of this forum since i became a member i have notched up 7 days and 8 hours and 19 minutes.  I have a tm 31 for 2 years now I also have as many of you members a kenwood mixer 2 pressure cookers 4 slow cookers different sizes ,300 cook books. I also have the most beautiful bbq called the KOMODO KAMADO a tiled cooker weighing about 300 kilos it is a macnificent bbq a bit like the thermomix of the bbq's. I do not contribute much because i find it difficult to communicate in this format. frans

Us blokes need to stick together Frans. I love the sound of the BBQ it sounds like my kind of appliance.  I used to have a wood fired pizza oven before I shifted house and would like to build another one. I spent time in the Philippines about 30 years ago. Never had chicken Adobo that I can remember, I will have to give it a try.  I do rememeber having a really delicious noodle dish in the PI but can't remember the name of it.

[goldfish]

DD . . don't look now . . . but you've probably got more friends on here than you can shake a stick at!!!!!

Love your posts!!  . . and good luck at the retreat!!  You're a brave man!!!

[obbie]

Guys, please come out from lurking, we know you are out there. we do miss the males input here.

So many guys are great at cooking too.

[Amy :-)]

So many guys are great at cooking too.

Heston

[tarasis]

Hi guys I'm around of sorts.

As I mentioned to Judy in another thread my beginning of year got screwed around majorly. Basically I spent the week post Christmas in hospital (boxing day till New Year's Eve) for reasons they couldn't quite determine but I was in a lot of pain. The outcome was they felt my spleen was too big and should come out.

So early January I'm getting various vaccinations done as a pre-prep and then I got I'll again. I was incredibly tired, finding it slow to walk and stuff, so off to the Doctor who checked my blood and spleen and felt that it needed to come out now. It was good timing as my wife's parents had just arrived for a two week trip, so they got the kids and I was taken into hospital. There they did a CT scan (I think) and discovered that as well as they spleen I had pneumonia. This meant that they couldn't take the spleen out till the pneumonia had been dealt with first. Cue basically 3 more weeks in hospital. First two dealing with pneumonia and then Op and recovery time. (Spleen was 20cm and weight 680kg). Once home I wasn't supposed to do much of anything for 6 weeks, so I wasn't even really cooking during that time.

So that gets me to Mid March, life is returning to normal though it still hurts a bit where the scar was (16 lovely staples) when I did start cooking again it was mostly staples and for whatever reason fell away from here. Then I got involved in writing a book (and now debating leaving it as struggling time wise), July I made a bunch of things in the Thermomix (notably for my wife's birthday where I cooked for her and 7 of her friends various Thermomix curry dishes and lemon sorbet and fizzy lemonade), August we were on holiday in Northern Ireland and then we got to September.

Amusingly I came back to the forum looking for a byriani recipe and found a post from me from last year

I'm not using the Thermomix anywhere near as much as last year but I expect it will increase again (heck I've got more tikka paste to make),

I am daily making soda farls (250g flour, 1tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt, 230g buttermilk, gently stirred together to form dough, then cooked on a low heat in a heavy frying pan / flat griddle (floured) for 10 minutes each side) which is a Northern Irish bread for me and the kids to eat, been forever since I used the TMX for bread or rolls..

Sorry I disappeared, and its kinda odd that many of the men vanished. Maybe we men are just bad at sticking too things

[judydawn]

Thanks for sharing your reason for your absence Rob, glad you are back and obviously in good health once again. 

[fundj&e]

so glad you are better now rob. welcome back 

[Cornish Cream]

Good to see you back Rob.You certainly have had an eventful year