Fundraiser for August :)

The cause is a really good one.

I'm baking up a storm for Australian Red Cross, a cause that is close to my heart and I would welcome any contribution, great or small, that you could make!

Please visit my Fundraising Page: http://bigcakebake.gofundraise.com.au/page/nekoTMbakeoff

All donations to this site are electronically wired to Australian Red Cross and an automatic receipt is emailed to you immediately.

Help me bake the world a better place by making a donation - every little bit helps to reach my modest target of $200.

My promise to sponsors: Donations above $50, will receive a cake order or cupcake order at a date of your choice! Contact me to arrange!

Thank you for your support!

Quick winter salads

Fast & easy side dish to off set any meat or just a healthy vegetarian main meal!

Ingredients
2 beetroot
1/2 a medium Spanish red onion
100 g walnuts halved
200 g baby spinach or mixed leaf salad
100 g Danish feta
Salt/pepper to taste

Method
1. Peel & quarter the beetroot
2. Place beetroot & onion in TM bowl. Speed 5, 3-4 seconds.
3. Add walnuts, whole block feta and chop at Speed 3, 2 seconds.
4. Place salad green in bowl / plate.
5. Scoop out salad & apportion onto plate for presentation. Serve with toasted Turkish bread for a main meal lunch :)


Sprinkle salt & pepper if you'd like. I found the fresh sweet taste of the beetroot, the salt in feta & the bite of the Spanish red onion was enough.

Short Post: hiatus of 5 days while on holiday

Well 5 days have passed, I haven't cleaned up the previous recipe posts yet.

But here's some food for thought or rather a brain-freeze! I love strawberries but they're no longer in season, at about $8-10 a punnet for fresh ones... it's hard to come by to make my favourite sorbet. Here's a recipe that uses frozen for a strawberry ice-cream. I'll shortly put up a Cherry Ripe Ice-cream recipe kindly provided by a fellow Thermomix consultant (I'll have to check who she got it from but it's delicious!).

Yes I know it's winter in little old Perth, but after a trip to Melbourne I know there's a difference. I literally feel like it's soooo warm here. And the gelato I had in Melbourne ('W'inter) were delicious. And I know in the warmth of your own home, a healthy icecream really is an ideal snack to go with your favourite movie!

Healthier Choc Chip Cookies

Well, this is a spelt and whole meal flour with brazil nut & peanut butter & dark chocolate chip cookie recipe variation ;) turns out its even more delicious on the 2nd day!

Porridge or risotto

Mom always figured out a way to make me eat what I didn't like the most: celery!

This is a mince & celeriac porridge/risotto, which tastes a lot like her pressure cooker rice porridge version, using arborio rice instead!

Easy Asian meal for four in <1 hr

A combination of dishes in the TM will provide you with a delicious meal for 4 in under 1 hour. Here are some of the images from my Asian food demonstration.

Recipes include: 

• Tofu with Minced Pork
• Kecap Manis Pork Belly
• Miso & Tofu Soup
• Steamed Kailan
• Black Sesame Paste/Soup



Staples

Everyone has staples they must keep in the house, below a few of my favourites:

• the TM Five Seed Bread (2 loafs each batch).
• TM Vegetable paste (funny how each batch churns out a different amount and somewhat different colour). This current batch is saltier, but more zucchini-ish than celeriac flavoured.
• TM Mayonnaise, I think I've over using Bran Seed Oil - it is so tasteless. So healthy but so tasteless!!!