testing testing!
just added this blog to flickr so i can blog direct from the phot!
yesterday we went out to the heritage park at forde, one of the new suburbs in gungahlin. we bought some noodles from wok it up - one of our favourite take away places, and had them for lunch (and for dinner again tonight).
today i hosted a bookclub lunch and an undercover wear party. i had a lot of cooking to do!
i made
* pumpkin and sweet potato soup
* foccacia with the fennel, mustard and onion topping from this recipe
* carol's chocolate fudge cake (which only lasted minutes after i cut it - all the kids and grown ups loved it! it was very simple in the TMX too, though i wasn't paying enough attention to write a conversion)
* and this banana loaf
honestly, i cannot rave enough about how much easier the tmx makes my life at times like this!
Showing posts with label foccacia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foccacia. Show all posts
23.4.08
Garlic Foccacia for morning tea...
thursdays are morning tea days at work. everyone is in one of 4 teams and each team provides MT once every 4 weeks. i usually try to provide something homemade as not many do and it's always nice to have homemade! i was tossing up this time between the prune cake or foccacia but it felt a bit cheap to just do foccacia but i had nothing to go with it. then i remembered that because most people in my team last time forgot, i had bought their shares but only one remembered to pay me! i think it cost me about $20-25 for my share of MT last month!!!! so i decided that foccacia was all good :D
as i was chopping garlic for dinner i did a garlic foccacia. this one didn't rise as much as the weekend's, but i'm not sure if it's because it wasn't as warm, or if it's because of something else. i just cut it to take the pic (and fit it in the container) and it seems ok inside, not tough or anything. on the weekend i cooked it at about 170'c (probably 180/190 really) and it seemed to cook better, whereas the recipe says to cook at 220'c.
anyway, i didn't really need to blog this but i took photos so might as well share lol
PS this was another thermomix recipe so making it took ummm 3 minutes i think, 1.5 hrs rise time and 20 minutes cookign time.
19.4.08
Afternoon Tea at my house...
this afternoon i hosted an undercover wear party. one of my guests admitted to having stalked this blog and keeping an eye out to make sure that i hadn't eaten all the passionfruit slice i'd made so she could have some LOL *waving hello to L*
so, it was a yummy afternoon tea!
the passionfruit slice was good, though i made it with orange juice not lemon so it was different - didn't have the same tartness. i juiced 2 large oranges instead of 2 small lemons so i thought it might not set but my stupid oven timer has stopped working so i cooked it a little longer than i was supposed to anyway and it was fine :)
i also made the carrot cake which went down well, though when the party had finished i discovered miss emelia had been helping myself to the cream cheese on the half of the cake that was left lol
and just so it wasn't all sweet and rich i also served some homemade foccacia with the turkish dips leftover from last night.
i admit that i was actually going to serve the leftover turkish bread and have the foccacia with the pumpkin soup i made for lunch - but after i put it in the oven to rise for 15 mins i discovered unlike the bread recipe i use this one had to rise for 1 1/2 hours!!!! so we ate the turkish bread at lunchtime LOL i'm glad though - the foccacia (the thermomix recipe) was DIVINE! YUM! took about 4 minutes to make, and was cooked 2 hours later and better than any foccacia i've had since i lived in italy!
tip for me to remember though - to flour the mat before leaving it to rise - it stuck to the mat terribly.
g's turn to cook tonight, he's going to make the pasta recipe in the thermomix (i don't really feel like eating but the kids had their afternoon tea a good hour or so before me lol)
as for the pumpkin soup, i always feel recipes are kind of superfluous, it's so hard to stuff up pumpkin soup ;p
but todays was more of that huge ironbark pumpkin (it is sooooo damn hard to cut, omg), onion, garlic and ginger, and the aldi curry mix (i LOVE their blend, it is so good and totally different to the keens etc), chicken stock powder, 1 potato, 1 large carrot, and water to nearly cover. cook til soft, blend and then add a can of evaporated skim milk and mix well. serve!
so, it was a yummy afternoon tea!
the passionfruit slice was good, though i made it with orange juice not lemon so it was different - didn't have the same tartness. i juiced 2 large oranges instead of 2 small lemons so i thought it might not set but my stupid oven timer has stopped working so i cooked it a little longer than i was supposed to anyway and it was fine :)
i also made the carrot cake which went down well, though when the party had finished i discovered miss emelia had been helping myself to the cream cheese on the half of the cake that was left lol
and just so it wasn't all sweet and rich i also served some homemade foccacia with the turkish dips leftover from last night.
i admit that i was actually going to serve the leftover turkish bread and have the foccacia with the pumpkin soup i made for lunch - but after i put it in the oven to rise for 15 mins i discovered unlike the bread recipe i use this one had to rise for 1 1/2 hours!!!! so we ate the turkish bread at lunchtime LOL i'm glad though - the foccacia (the thermomix recipe) was DIVINE! YUM! took about 4 minutes to make, and was cooked 2 hours later and better than any foccacia i've had since i lived in italy!
tip for me to remember though - to flour the mat before leaving it to rise - it stuck to the mat terribly.
g's turn to cook tonight, he's going to make the pasta recipe in the thermomix (i don't really feel like eating but the kids had their afternoon tea a good hour or so before me lol)
as for the pumpkin soup, i always feel recipes are kind of superfluous, it's so hard to stuff up pumpkin soup ;p
but todays was more of that huge ironbark pumpkin (it is sooooo damn hard to cut, omg), onion, garlic and ginger, and the aldi curry mix (i LOVE their blend, it is so good and totally different to the keens etc), chicken stock powder, 1 potato, 1 large carrot, and water to nearly cover. cook til soft, blend and then add a can of evaporated skim milk and mix well. serve!
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