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Thermomix Christmas food

Panettone

2 Comments / Baking (Sweet), Eggs

Another Christmas recipe. Christmas is a time when my Thermomix goes into overdrive. There’s so much cooking, baking, and eating during the holidays, having a Thermomix which saves time is a real-time saver in my household. It’s one of the reasons I have 2 Thermomixes not just one, but that’s another story.

This fruited bread is an Italian Christmas specialty. Making it yourself is very easy with your Thermomix and will cost you a fraction of the price of a bought panettone, and it will taste fresh and delicious. Lovely as a gift. Leftovers make a wonderful bread and butter pudding. 

Thermomix Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake

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I often get asked for the most common cake I bake in my Thermomix and hands down, its the Carrot Cake recipe. I try and justify that baking with carrots ticks off one of our 5-a-day, but I think I’m only secretly kidding myself. The reason I think a Thermomix version has to be included in any Thermomix blog is because of how easy it is to make.

I do a lot of charity work in my borough of Tower Hamlets and a few summers ago, we did some cooking classes for local children in the area. The workshops were over 6 weeks where we made easy snacks that children could make showing them how home cooked food had more nutritional value than fast food, sugar-loaded snacks. One week, we made carrot cake the traditional way – weighing, measuring, peeling, grating, mixing, more weighing, more mixing…it went on and on. My team and I were dumbfounded by the how long this recipe took making it by hand. My team are so used to Thermomix method  that we had simply forgotten how time consuming anything else is. For those who want the easy, quick way without compromising taste, here it is.

Thermomix Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Cake

5 Comments / Baking (Sweet), Dessert, Eggs, Snacks

It’s Saturday night and my darling daughter has been unwell for a few days. She hasn’t eaten much and has requested cake. She’s gone to bed early. As a mother, I’m concerned and thought I’d surprise her in the morning with cake. Eggs, flour and sugar…at least she’ll eat something right?

Luckily, my Thermie to the rescue and so easy to make cupcakes without any thinking. Thanks to my lovely friend and former Thermomix Advisor, Kerry New, for the converted cake recipe from WI Australia. It’s so easy to convert your favourites into a Thermomix way and this one is my all time favourite. The plain vanilla version is gorgeous, but add a couple of teaspoons of coffee liqueur, its a coffee cake; the rind of a lemon or orange, it becomes an lemon or orange cake.

Edit: Yasmin is now 9 years old and the cake is still her favourite. Used for every birthday cake in the past 10 years. This cake is a real winner with all kids.

Thermomix Bubble Mix

Best Bubble Mix

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Readers can clearly see that I have children under 10. Yes, I do many adult, chef-y recipes in my Thermomix but as other parent, I cook to the feed the household. Cook is a very lose term in the Stopa household because I also ‘cook’ non-food items in my Thermomix and this bubble recipe is one of those times. I found this recipe on the Passion for Juice blog and am really grateful. It’s provided hours of fun for the family. This bubble mixture keeps for weeks.

 

Disclaimer – Thermomix® is a cooking appliance intended to be only used for food preparation.

However, the recipes here are using food ingredients – sugar, spices, coconut oil, food colouring etc. which I do cook with so I am happy to make ‘beauty’ products using my Thermomix. I also have multiple TM bowls, so I can safely use separate bowls for making these without any cross contamination. If in any doubt, don’t make them.

Thermomix Gluhwein

Glühwein

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OK, so I’ve just come back from Cologne’s Christmas Markets and one thing I have highly enjoyed is the glühwein (mulled wine).  No better way to relax than by snuggling up near an open fire, book in one hand and a glass of warm, spicy, citrus infused Glühwein in the other.

Here’s my converted recipe for Thermomix Glühwein.

Green soup

Pea Veloute

1 Comment / Gluten Free, Soups, Vegan & Vegetarian

I was at the Good Food Show, Summer in the City this weekend gone and one of the show recipes we make is this Pea Veloute. It’s a delicious creamy soup is rich and wonderfully flavourful and the blending in the Thermomix is outstanding. The colour is amazingly fresh and vibrant. That’s why we do it at shows – it’s show-stopping. 

Thermomix Sweet Beetroot Dip

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So, I’ve started recently to get Riverford Organic vegetable deliveries and whilst I love the element of surprise, I do something have that, ‘Err, what do I do with these?’ feeling that comes about with random veges that I wouldn’t normally pick up from the supermarket myself.

Kale? Turnips? More leeks than I care to imagine? Beetroot?

Well, this week, my challenge was to use raw beetroot and I found the most delightful recipe which I have converted. Whether you roast it whole, blend into a classic soup or drink as juice like the Olympians do – beetroot is low in fat, full of vitamins and minerals and packed with powerful antioxidants – a health-food titan.

This Thermomix Sweet Beetroot dip is a wonderful alternative to hummus and delicious served with vegetables and crackers (kids eating them too) or add to lunch wraps or vegetarian tacos as a healthy relish/sauce.

Highlights of BBC Good Food Show with Thermomix

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As an Advisor, we sometimes get to help Thermomix UK at national events. Luckily in London, there’s quite a few and here are some of my highlights of the Good Food Show at Excel, in June.

Always packed with seasonal produce, ideas for al-fresco dining and hundreds of exciting producers and brands to shop from, get all the summer inspiration you need. Soak up expert masterclasses, live demos from the seasonal stages and much more. There Mary Berry, Tom Kerridge, Michel Roux Jr, Nadiya Hussain and James Martin (a Thermomix fan favorite) as they cooked up summer feasts in The Big Kitchen.

Attending events like this is a great way to practice our ‘elevator pitches’ but also a great opportunity to meet other Advisors from other teams, hang out with head office staff and celebrity chefs and actually treat it like a team bonding exercise. As a self-employed individual, we often work alone so exhibitions like this allow us all to be together and hang. The one thing I truly like about this role is what a great bunch of people we are. There are so many reasons people are drawn to the role – either their love for food or their family circumstances, extra income or a step towards a career if they don’t have one. But the reason, they stay in the business is the people. We are a really great bunch of supportive men and women, who genuinely care about well-being, healthy eating and each other.

Here are some of the highlights over the years:

James Martin cutting the ribbon at Birmingham Good Food Show

Thermomix Ladies welcoming visitors to our stand

Natarsha Lambie giving out some samples

Getting to meet the chefs at the stand. Here’s Cyrus Todiwala who came to tell us how much he loves his Thermomixes!

Quick demo recipes of herb breadcrumbs – bread, parmesan and herbs – it smells delicious

Advisors sneaking in a selfie

Enjoying talking to customers

Watching the chefs in action; Cyrus Todiwala of Cafe Spice Namaste

An official pose – Marivi Perello (Team Leader), Josie Wilkins (West London Branch Manager) and me

Thermomix Advisor fan favourite, James Martin

 

Book Review: British Isle on a Plate (BIOAP)

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British Isles on a Plate (BIOAP) was the first cookbook to be released by the Thermomix UK team, post the Thermomix TM5 launch. Released in September 2015, this cookbook brings the flavours of the British Isles to your plate with ease!

I have to admit that as an Asian, who naturally tends towards Indian, Chinese, and Japanese foods, I wasn’t too impressed by the title. British food is historically bland, right? Wrong. I’m the first to admit this was my thoughts but this whole book has flavoursome and loved recipes that even impress those not to be impressed. Don’t judge a book by it’s cover or it’s title; this is one of my favourite Thermomix books.

Availability: This book was available as a hard copy book, as a Thermomix recipe chip (not discontinued) and it is also available as a book on Cookidoo.

One Girl favourites: Full English breakfast popover, Chicken and leek pie, Leek and Lancashire cheese quiche, Coffee and walnut cake and Scottish tablet.

To see the full contents of the book, click here.

HOST GIFT: Why pay for it, when you can get one for free. I’ll be delighted to gift this to you if you host a demonstration with 3 guests, new to Thermomix and that reside in the United Kingdom. Contact me on Ankita@onegirlandherThermie.co.uk to host a Cooking Experience.