Welcome to The Kitchen Playground. Cooking can bring great joy and great despair. I hope that the recipes you find here, many of which are very quick to make with the weeknight in mind, help you to experience more joy than despair. Many recipes have instructions for the Thermomix 31 as well as traditional instructions. The emphasis is on real, fresh food that combines flavour, texture and scent to delight the senses.
I vaguely remember doing something similar to this last summer and really enjoying it. So I recreated as best I could remember. It’s a lovely summer meal served with a salad and leftovers are perfect for lunch boxes. Tuna & Cream Cheese Rolls. 485g tin tuna in springwater 250g block cream cheese 1/2 red onion, […]
I was running a bit late tonight so had a quick peek in the fridge to see what I could whip up in a hurry. I found a bit of leftover cured salmon, a couple of mushrooms and a dash of cream on it’s last legs. Brilliant. Not much quicker and easier than pasta. Creamy […]
I did this with filo pastry simply because I had some that needed using up. Of course you could use shortcrust but I actually preferred the lightness of filo in the warmer weather. I served it with mash and salad. Like most thermomix meals it’s super quick and easy to prepare. Thermomix Steak and Kidney […]
I read somewhere that the perfect meat to fat ratio for sausages is 70:30. I thought I’d try and skimp slightly on that with these because of the oiliness of the pesto (and the rogue 2kg I need to lose before the Bread Winner’s Christmas Party on the 13th). Not a good idea. The flavour […]
This is a slight variation on the Florentine recipe in World Breads. As usual, it’s a thermomix adaptation. It made lovely rustic, cheesy batons that will be a lovely lunch tomorrow. Parmesan, Spelt and Wheat Bread 250g wheat grain 250g spelt grain 100g grana padano 7g dried yeast 1 teaspoon salt 1 large egg 3 […]
A divine big steak of yellow fin tuna caught my roving eye at the market this morning. Fresh in off the boat too. I had dreams of it being good enough to make a carpaccio. I brought it home and froze it for half an hour so as to slice it more easily, sliced off […]
This is a Charmaine Solomon recipe, I’ve just adjusted it for use in the Thermomix. Much easier to make this way. In the pre-Thermomix days, the kneading stage used to drive me to distraction. Cheese Koftas in Creamy Sauce 2 litres full cream milk 60 ml lemon juice 3 tablespoons coriander, finely chopped 2 tablespoons […]
As usual, we’re out of bread. I rather fancy something pita like for lunches tomorrow so I thought I would see what I could devise in the thermomix. Thermomix Oat & Spelt Pita Bread 4 1/2 cups freshly ground spelt flour (wheat would work but would probably need a fraction more water) 2 cups oats […]
OK, maybe not the exact, precise, traditional beurre blanc but it’s the way I threw it together and served it over lovely firm white fish fillets with a green salad. Lovely hot night dinner. Thermomix Beurre Blanc Style Sauce Over Fish 4 firm white fish fillets. 40g butter 2 cloves garlic 2 shallots 1/3 cup […]
Here is my first attempt at curing salmon. I only used a small piece in case things went pear shaped. Vanilla vodka and orange cured salmon 330g piece of salmon 50g Murray River salt crystals 50g rapadura 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed orange juice 2 tablespoons Vodka, infused with a vanilla bean (mine has had the […]