Frozen Yoghurt Dessert

Found a recipe on thermomixrecipes.com and thought i'd post it - I made a few changes.....

500g Natural TM Yoghurt (or store bought)

400g cream

150g sugar

300g Stewed Fruit of choice (I used leftover Nectarines)

Place sugar in bowl - Speed 10 for 20 seconds

Add remaining ingredients - Mix on Speed 5 for 40 seconds

Place in Freezer overnight

Take out and let defrost slightly (half an hour) cut into chunks and place back in bowl - do half first - Speed 5 - 20 seconds then add remaining chunks and mix again on Speed 8 for 1 minute with add of spatula 

MY KIDS LOVED IT!  I've got stacks left and will freeze for future use.  My mind is ticking now how it might go in a little tub for school recess - wonder how long it'd stay frozen for???  

Reduce sugar if you want it healthier, i'll do that next time and see the results....also you could reduce cream and add more yoghurt.  Definitely one you can fiddle with and it wouldn't make a huge difference to outcome!   

Menu Plan WC 16th January 2012

Menu Plan WC 16th January 2012

So I thought a better way for me to do my menu plan is to list out last weeks - I'm not doing too great at being organised over the holidays and I usually do a big shop get random stuff and decide on the night what we'll eat.....so this is what we all ate last week.....

Monday Night - Rachel my 9 year old cooked a meal for the first time solo - she did great, she didn't like rolling them so i helped with that....all the family loved them (actually except Hannah, who's turned very fussy of late) we all gave great praise and she was chuffed she cooked tea for everyone.  I'm going to try and make it a weeky event for Rachel. 


Herbal Chicken Horsdoeuvre
Served with Creamy Cheese potatoes and peas and corn


Tuesday Night - Tonight I left dinner till way too late, but I still wanted to cook something, so we had a later dinner - holidays and all - doesn't really matter - usually I'm a 'dinner by 6pm' person....got some meat out of the freeze, quickly defrosted it and whipped up a not so family favourite (well so i thought) 


Beef Stroganoff
Served with Pasta and Carrots and Brocolli


They all ate it up so quickly, Andy (3) even had seconds - lesson learnt, it's important to try things several times with kids, eventually they get used to it and you may just be surprised to learn it's suddenly a family favourite not the other way around. 



Wednesday Night - Good old favourite in our house and you'll see this pop up on most of my menu plans - definitely one that you can get started late and still have dinner served by 6pm.....this is the one that saves us a bunch of money - except i wish cheese wasn't so expensive.....


Pizza - EDC Cookbook for Pizza Base recipe - so easy!  I get 3 bases out of one batch of dough
Topped with (in this order) tomato paste, cheese, ham, pineapple, more cheese



Thursday Night - Had a very busy day this day - don't think i got home from being out at 9am - till 4.30 - picked friends up from the airport, made a TMX delivery (with 4 kids in tow) lunch at the park and then to my favourite store with a friend (still with 4 kids in tow) Gagani's Bros - shopped lots and stocked up my pantry with lots of goodness!   So after such a busy day I spoilt my kids with a meal my hubby and I used to eat often pre-kids - thought i'd introduce them to it......they loved it....


Nacho's topped with Bolognaise Sauce, sour cream and sweet chili sauce
I poured Corn chips into a deep dish, covered with a bit of grated cheese and baked in oven for 10 mins (until cheese melted) then topped with the Bolognaise sauce, few dollops of sour cream and sweet chili if desired.



Friday Night - Relaxing day today - enjoyed just hanging at home - Dinner tonight was left up to hubby (not that he knew it) he took the kids out for tea - I was heading out the door at 5pm -had a huge demo planned for the evening - something a bit different than the norm.  Showed the Thermomix to a group of ladies (from a church) 21 in total, had 2 thermomixes going and gave them a treat of a 6 course meal - they loved it and I loved the opportunity to do such a huge demonstration of the Thermomix, it all went well and the food tasted great - except i put way too much mint in one of the sorbets - lol..


Out with Dad for Dinner 



Saturday Night - I had made 4 risotto's that week (2 at deliveries and 2 at demo's) so I was craving risotto myself after making it often but not actually eating it - so Risotto was on the menu for our family - Did a basic flavour - but still yummy.....important ingredient is of course the TM vege stock


Chicken Risotto



Sunday Night - Left overs for all - Snatch and grab on Sundays in our house quite often - Kids had weetbix for desert - classic, they love it!  


During the week I also made  


Banana Bread 
Milo Biscuits
Gluten Free Spice Bread
Basic Bread Rolls
Spreadable Butter
Vegetable Stock Concentrate
Dips galore
And probably more that got eaten just as quickly as it got made


As i look back now on what we ate, we didn't really eat that healthy - lots of homemade but not overall healthy - I'll try and be more thoughtful of the meals.....hard though with kids at young ages - I do know i spent about $80 at the markets on fruit and veg and all of that is gone now so at least I know we got a lot of fresh fruit and veg in our diets, My trolley was so heavy - without fail no matter how much i buy we seem to eat it all - I keep buying more - seems the more i buy the more we eat.   We'll see what this week holds :-)  Happy Cooking. 

Risotto - Chicken, Sundried tomato, baby spinach

Chicken Risotto

Ingredients

• 100g parmesan cheese
• 1/2 onion
• 2 cloves of Garlic
• 100g semi-sundried tomato
• 30g oil
• 1 chicken breasts
• 320g Arborio rice
• 100g white wine
• 1000g water
• 2 Tbspn TM vegetable stock
• Handful of baby spinach

Method

Place spinach in the ThermoServer and set aside

Grate parmesan 10 sec speed 9, set aside in a small bowl

Place onion and garlic, chop 5 sec speed 7

Add oil and cook 3 min 100C speed 1

Add semi-dried tomato, set lid to closed position, Speed 7 for 5 seconds.

Add wine, rice. Cook 2 min 100C, reverse, speed 1

Add water and stock concentrate. Cook 16 min, 100C, reverse speed 1

Add chicken when there is 10 minutes to go on timer.

Pour risotto on top of baby spinach in ThermoServer, add some grated parmesan cheese, stir and leave to stand for few minutes.

(Recipe taken and altered slightly from EDC)