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Peri Peri Chicken

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Is your family like mine…obsessed with Nandos Peri Peri Chicken? It’s my husband and kids first choice of meal when we go out for lunches or dinners. “Let’s go to Nandos, I hear them all scream”. I don’t know why chicken and chips (fries) is such a delight but I’ve been forced to find this fakeaway recipe out of necessity.

Not only does this Nando’s copycat taste pretty awesome and pass the Stopa taste bud test, it’s way cheaper than going out.  And I’ll let you into a little secret…it’s actually really easy to make! Just throw together some simple spices, smother them over the chicken, marinade and then pop the chicken in the oven to do its stuff. The key here is to plan ahead, make the marinade the day before and let in infused overnight and all day before you cook it. I have tried this recipe and done it straight from Thermomix to oven, but it just doesn’t taste as good if you do it the day before. The wait is worth it. I also prefer to BBQ it than bake in the oven, which is perfect for the summertime.

Serve with chips or French fries and sweetcorn and you’ll be having this fakeaway all the time.

Credit: Thank goodness for Nicole and Skinnymixers who have developed this Peri Peri Chicken recipe. Re-blogging for ease.

Mini Apple Loaf Cakes

Leave a Comment / Baking (Sweet), Dessert, Snacks

These apple mini loaf cakes truly are a heavenly combination of cake and fruit, lightly spiced with vanilla and cinnamon. I made them recently for my mother-in-law’s birthday (you can’t have a celebration without a cake, right?) Mama isn’t keen on standard cakes or cheesecakes, so I thought something slightly different would do the trick. These certainly were a huge hit.

These apple mini loaves are great for gift giving and make a wonderful bread to serve at breakfast and to pack for lunch. It’s so simple to make individual portions and decorate them beautifully. I don’t know why I don’t this more often.

peel garlic

Peel garlic

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Never have smelly hands or need to buy minced garlic again. With Thermomix, here’s a perfect way to peel garlic without any of the hassle factor.

I encounter a lot of domestic cooks and commercial chefs that don’t know how to peel garlic and end up doing it the long, hard way. Other chefs use packaged peeled garlic. Personally, I prefer to buy my garlic fresh at the farmers market and peel them myself.

Every since owning a Thermomix, its the easiest thing to do. I usually buy a kilo or two and do it at one time and then freeze them in batches; fresh whole garlic and also minced which is perfect when I want to add garlic to Asian foods.

Sugar & spice scrub

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This sugar and spice scrub is Christmas in a jar or at least that’s how my kids describe it. Another sugar scrub twist with the sugar and spices so you smell like Christmas morning. Use as is for a body scrub or add more coconut oil and it can also be used as a massage oil. I tend to use this in the shower and then dab dry. You don’t want to be washing the oil off.

Now, I appreciate it’s May when I’m posting this recipe. My excuse is that this one one of the most best recipes in my former website and I’m slowing re-blogging them. But why do I feel this is important to be published now and not in December in time for the festive season? Well, the reason is that sugar scrubs are so good for the skin, anytime of the year.

Natural sugar is full of glycolic acid which has skin regenerating properties, it helps reduce fine lines and wrinkly, hydrate the skin and protects from toxins. When the sugar is mixed with a type of oil, it worked as both an exfoliate to remove the dead skin cells and a moisturiser. Sugar scrubs are great for dry skin but especially good for eczema. When you use a sugar scrub for your eczema, it will help to facilitate the removal of dead skin cells to prevent your skin from flaking or cracking. Most average soaps and exfoliants claim to do the same thing, but in reality they have a lot of harsh chemicals that strip the skin of its natural oils. Using a sugar scrub will leave your skin soft and smooth while still retaining its natural moisture. A sugar scrub works best for dry types of eczema. If you have flaky, crusty eczema on your hands, feet, or scalp, that needs to be exfoliated gently, then a sugar scrub would work for you! A sugar scrub also works for removing blackheads, whiteheads, acne, and scars.

So with all these health benefits, a sugar scrub should be welcome anytime of the year.

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.

 

Hangover cure

Hangover Cure Smoothie

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Stanley George for this Pharmacist-approved hangover cure smoothie.  Too many toasts and cheers may have you cursing, do your body a favour with this morning-after smoothie recipe.
(Re-blogged) Seventeen-year veteran pharmacist and owner of Stanley’s Pharmacy in NYC, Stanley George, is used to tending to the bleary-eyed crowd on Saturday mornings at his Lower East Side pharmacy where he serves up his signature “Drinks + Drugs.” Stanley relies on herbal tonics alongside traditional Western medicine to give clients the best of both worlds. His hangover remedy tea is popularly consumed with a dose of Advil on the side.

 

Blend the ingredients below and slurp away to detoxify, rebuild electrolytes, and restore your body’s normal pH levels (see individual explanations below). This delicious hangover cure was prescribed by Stanley exclusively for SELF and now easily converted to Thermomix by One Girl.

Snail

Play dough

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Did you know you can make play dough in next to no time with everyday ingredients found in your kitchen cupboards. Save money and involve the kids in this brilliant recipe.

This homemade play dough is simple, natural, and perfect for entertaining children. They enjoy helping make it almost as much as they enjoy playing with it! And this recipe delivers soft play dough they can play with for hours.

Ingredients:

  1. 10 g salt
  2. 250 g water
  3. 15g cream of tartar
  4. 250 g plain flour
  5. 15g oil coconut, vegetable etc. are all fine
  6. food colouring

Recipe:

  1. Place the salt into the Thermomix bowl and mix on Speed 10 for 5 seconds.
  2. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
  3. Add the water and cream of tartar and cook for 5 minutes, 60 degrees, Speed 3.
  4. Leave to cool for 5 minutes.
  5. Add the plain flour and the oil and mix together for 50 seconds, Speed 4.
  6. Knead for 1 minute on speed spoon/ interval speed.
  7. Check the texture and if it’s a little sticky, add some more flour and knead for a further 30 seconds.
  8. Separate the playdough into several bowls.
  9. Add 1 tiny drop of food colouring to each bowl and mix together with your hands until the colour is evenly dispersed (wear gloves!).
  10. Wrap the playdough in cling wrap and store it in an airtight container in the fridge.

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

However, the recipes here are things I do with my own Thermomix.  I also have multiple Thermomixes and TM bowls, so I can safely use separate bowls for making these without any cross-contamination. I also clean the bowls thoroughly with soap, then vinegar, and finally run it through the dishwasher to ensure that it is thoroughly clean before making a food recipe in my bowl. If in any doubt, don’t make them.

Smoothie

Simple Matcha Smoothie

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Enjoy this simple matcha smoothie as part of your breakfast routine as a snack to pep you up or as a dessert. It’s exceptionally smooth and nutritious and especially in summer one of my favourite recipes to drink.

One serving of matcha tea is the nutritional equivalent of 10 cups of regularly brewed green tea
When you drink matcha you ingest the entire leaf and receive 100% of the nutrients of the leaf Matcha powdered green tea has 137 times more antioxidants than regularly brewed green tea. One cup of matcha = 10 cups of regularly brewed green tea in terms of nutritional content.

Bring more health and vitality into your day with these unbeatable matcha smoothie recipes. As well as containing high levels of antioxidants and other nutrients, matcha green tea also has a wonderfully earthy, leafy flavour that works fantastically well with sweet drinks and desserts.

 

Okonomiyaki

1 Comment / Eggs, Starters, Vegan & Vegetarian

Enjoy one of the easiest and most delicious delicacies in Japanese cuisine with this Thermomix okonomiyaki savoury pancake recipe. Okonomiyaki literally means ‘grilled as you like it‘, and is made from seasoned flour, cabbage, and various fresh meats and vegetables mixed together and cooked in a frying pan just like a pancake.

Prepare this easy recipe for lunch or dinner, and watch it become a family favourite.

While the first side is cooking, try frying up some yakisoba noodles and flipping the pancake onto these when cooking the other side for Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki.

During the final stage, try breaking an egg on the top of the pancake, then cover with a wok lid to quickly steam-cook. Serve when the yolk is slightly runny.

Recipe for Okonomiyaki sauce: 20 g honey, 30 g Japanese soy sauce, 60 g tomato ketchup, 40 g Worcestershire sauce – mix together and drizzle on top of the pancake.

Kewpie mayonnaise can be substituted for any other mayonnaise too.