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Breast Cancer Trials – 3 Course Challenge

by Arwen | Aug 17, 2020 | Foodie Adventures, Photography | 0 comments

This is when my Tassie friends & I visited Paris for the first time and we went to the Palace of Versailles.

Together with my friends we have raised over $1000 for Breast Cancer Research. We thank you for your generous support 💕 I’m sure you will know like I do many families who have lost loved ones and have been through such a tough time due to breast cancer. You can still donate here. I made a pledge to colour my hair pink once we reach the goal of $1000!! Check out my new hair!!

I’m cooking to help find a cure for breast cancer!

This August, I’m taking on the 3 Course Challenge to raise funds for breast cancer trials research. I want to help protect the 1 in 7 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.

I’m ready to cook up the French 3 Course Challenge with Manu!!

By donating to my page, you’ll help fund clinical trials that are finding new ways to treat, prevent and ultimately cure breast cancer.

I’m sure it will be no easy feat but I’ll at least have top chef Manu Feildel to help me! I can’t wait to give it a go, have some fun and cook to help find a cure for breast cancer.

Thanks so much – I’d love for you to support me and make a donation to Breast Cancer Trials – You can still donate here until the 14th September 2020.

We had the most delicious lunch today!!! A French Fundraiser 🇫🇷 3 Course Challenge 💕
I started making Manu’s red wine sauce recipe 2 days before our lunch – first making the beef stock & cooking it for over 4hrs!!
2 litres of French red wine went into it altogether!!
Course 1 – Vichyssoise avec crème fraîche
Course 2 – Coq Au Vin with a twist (served with Sauce Bordelaise – Rich Red-Wine Sauce)
Course 3 – La tarte au chocolat parfaite ( I also made Manu’s shortcrust pastry in the Thermomix too)
My friend Christine also made sourdough baguettes 🥖 and her very special French vanilla slice!!
And I got my homemade truffle butter out of the freezer too!!

My friend Christine made the sourdough baguettes

Course 1: Vichysoisse avec crème fraîche – Potato & Leek Soup with crème fraîche

Course 2: Coq au Vin (with a twist) – Chicken with Red Wine Sauce

Course 3: La tarte au chocolat parfaite – The Perfect Chocolate Tart

Served with homemade vanilla bean ice cream

My Friend Christine also made us her famous French Vanilla Slice!!

Magic Meals

by Arwen | Aug 1, 2020 | Photography, Thermomix, Thermomix Recipes | 0 comments

My sister has a hungry family of 5 and she will often cook up a big batch of bolognese sauce and freeze it off into portions and decide what she will turn it into once she defrosts it – That’s why I am calling this post magic meals. If you prefer to make a vegetarian bolognese sauce with lentils and veggies you can still turn your sauce into any of these 5 magic meals!!

Of course you can serve your bolognese sauce with pasta or vegetable noodles!!

2. Mexican – Try adding some spices & beans to make your bolognese into chilli con carne and serve with rice and or corn chips, cheese & salads for a taco bowl.

Mexican Chilli Con Carne in the making!!

3. Shepherds Pie – Add herbs & frozen peas to the bolognese & top with a veggie mash and cheese and then bake in the oven.

4. Pastitsio – Place cooked macaroni mixed with 2 whisked eggs into the base of a baking dish top with spinach leaves and the bolognese sauce then top with white sauce, bread crumbs and cheese and bake in the oven.

5. Lasagna – Of course you can layer the bolognese sauce with fresh pasta or instant pasta sheets and bechamel sauce and top with cheese and bake till crispy.

Drinking French Cookbook

by Arwen | May 11, 2020 | Food Styling, Foodie Adventures, Photography | 0 comments

The Cook’s Table Cookbook Cooking Challenge March 20

by Arwen | Mar 3, 2020 | Food Styling, Foodie Adventures, Photography | 0 comments

As you know I love a bit of a cookbook challenge and my cousin also has a love of cookbooks like I do. So when I visited her in Melbourne in February, we had fun just flicking through the pages of her cookbook collection and I fell in love with The Cook’s Table by Stephanie Alexander. I already have a few of her cookbooks but I love that this one has 25 fun themed menus and photos for every recipe. And the recipes look great too of course!! So my cousin & I decided to do a Julie & Julia style challenge in March to cook as many recipes as we can in this month. I feel like I’m cheating because I have a Thermomix LOL!! I promptly purchased a copy for my self and put rose petals in vodka to make the Rose Petal Liqueur _ It had to steep for a month. I will be going away towards the end of the month but I will take my cookbook with me!! Feel free to join in our challenge it’s going to be delicious fun!!

Pumpkin Scones from the Afternoon Tea menu

Christine’s Rose Petal Liqueur from the Valentine’s Day menu

Yoghurt Flatbread with Garlic and Herb Butter and Guacamole from the Teenagers Birthday menu

Sticky Pork Ribs with Barbeque Sauce from the Feeding a Crowd menu

Radicchio White Bean Walnut and Pecorino Salad with Torn Croutons from the feeding a crowd menu

Chicken in Saffron Sauce served with Potatoes with Chorizo from the Andalucia menu.

Jam & cream-filled sponge cake with rose-geranium leaves from the Afternoon Tea Chapter

Stress Less Xmas 2018

by Arwen | Dec 18, 2018 | Foodie Adventures, Photography, Thermomix | 0 comments

This year seems to have been my busiest December ever!! It’s still going too, I have customer’s Thermomix to wrap & deliver. I have not even started my own Christmas shopping or food prep – so my very sensible motto this year is KEEP IT SIMPLE & DON”T STRESS!! Ok so I might just make it my mantra?!!! Here is my things I’m excited about at this stage & I will add to the list. After all the most important thing at Christmas is spending time with loved ones, truly enjoying the feasting, fun & the subsequent food coma, don’t you agree??

Whipped cream can bring anything to the next level & it only takes just under 20 secs to whip up in the Thermomix – I like to keep it just cream with nothing else, use a good quality cream – my favourite local cream is Ashgrove & to serve it with home grown raspberries is the ultimate treat anytime of the day!!

60 Second Fruit Cake recipe from the Devil of a Cookbook makes a quick & easy gift for friends or you can make smaller ones too 🙂

Vanilla & Chocolate Star Biscuits – recipe from Donna Hay Christmas magazine. Meet a friend for an Xmas baking session & both cook a few dishes madly for a few hours then divide & share the results YUM!!

Never under estimate the deliciousness of in season fruits – like one of my summer favourites cherries – they also make an awesome gift (these were given to me – well there was the other half that I have already eaten too)

Eggnog recipe from Sophia’s Tis the Season Cookbook has a lot of kick to it, once you have had a drink of this you will definitely be free of stress 🙂

Speculaas

Macaroons

Saffron Shortbread

Layered Dip recipe by Fiona Hoskin

Eloise Emmett 30 Day Challenge

by Arwen | Nov 4, 2018 | Foodie Adventures, Photography, Thermomix | 0 comments

Eloise Emmett 30 Day Challenge – Another delicious challenge – how could I refuse this awesome opportunity!! My good friend Eloise Emmett has put out the challenge for people to see how easy & delicious her recipes are. Anyone who completes the challenge for 30 days will get to attend her workshop in Dec for free!! YAY!! Count me in!! You can cook recipes form any of her 3 award winning cook books – The Real Food for Kids Cookbook, Seafood Everyday cook book or the Tasmanian Pantry Cookbook or any recipes from her website too!! I’m excited to get cooking & eating who wants to join in the fun too? It starts Oct 15th 2018!!!