Arwen’s Thermo Pics 30 Day Challenge

Many years ago I gave my new customers the Thermomix 30 Day Challenge. Because it is my 10 year Thermoversary I wanted to revamp the challenge to bring it up to date to the new model TM6 & to give back to my awesome Thermomix customers as I share my favourite recipes & Thermomix tips & tricks. You can start the challenge at anytime. I will be starting on the 1st of November with facebook live videos everyday too.

DO YOU ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE? To try 1 new thing a day with the Thermomix, if you miss a day you can make it up on a different day & you can swap the days around if you need to as well. Over the 30 days we want to use all the parts of the Thermomix and as many functions as we can. These recipes are just suggestions so please adapt to suit your own eating style. I will also be introducing you to my favourite Thermoxers along the way too!!

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Day 1: Vegetable Stock Paste

DAY 1: MONDAY Have you got some vegetable stock paste in the fridge? If not make some today or try a new stock you haven’t made before a chicken, mushroom or beef.

Today is the perfect day to practice your menu planning using cookidoo – including using the shopping list feature. (Please contact me if you need help with this. I do provided training at all my deliveries & cooking experiences too)

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Sophia’s Kitchen recipe for Hainanese Chicken Rice

DAY 2: TUESDAY Have you tried steaming a whole chicken? You can simply place 1 litre of boiling water into the TM bowl & place the chicken into the varoma with any of your favourite flavours in & around the chicken. There are many great recipes for Hainanese Chicken Rice including the recipes by Jo Whitton in your Life Changing Food Cookbook. (This cookbook is also available as an App & it has a few of my food photos!!) Dani Valent has a wonderful video on steaming chicken & making a chicken stock with the bones which is something I do quite regularly. (I also add water to the bowl after making the dog food & whizz it up to clean the bowl to make a puppuccino for my dog Jet.)

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DAY 3: WEDNESDAY Use any leftover steamed chicken breasts to make shredded chicken on reverse speed 4 for 2 secs. Use in salads sandwiches/wraps or soups.  If you are vegetarian you might like to make the pulled jackfruit recipe. Use the chicken stock to make a soup or try Arwen’s Flu Fighter Chicken Soup.

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Kel’s Gluten Free Wraps

Day 4: THURSDAY Charlie’s wrap recipe or try Kel’s gluten free wrap recipe.

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Thermie Green Curry

Day 5: FRIDAY FAKEAWAY Thermie Green Chicken Curry or Thermie Green Vegetable Curry or find a Thai curry style recipe on cookidoo.

Day 6: SATURDAY Weekend breakfast workshop: Try my favourite steamed omelette recipe or use the egg boiler mode for boiled eggs just the way you like them. Maybe you want to try the poached eggs with the blade cover recipe. And how about some hollandaise sauce to go with that?

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Tandoori Curry Paste

Day 7: SUNDAY Tandoori Curry Paste – This is how I change the recipe: I like to heat up the whole spices in the Thermomix for 3 mins Varoma speed 1. Allow the spices to cool then mill the spices on speed 10 for 1 min. Set aside. Place the garlic & ginger into the TM bowl & chop for 5 secs speed 7. Scrape down the sides of the bowl add 50g of the oil & cook for 5 mins Varoma temperature speed 1. Allow to cool before adding all the remaining ingredients including the milled spices & whizz it all up for 30 secs speed 10 scrape down the sides of the bowl & repeat if needed. Store in 100g portions in the fridge for 1 month or in the freezer for longer.

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Thermie Green Quiche

Day 8: MEATLESS MONDAY Thermie Green Quiche

Day 9: TUESDAY Cheats Easy Chicken Curry (You can also use other vegetables instead of the chicken if you prefer)

Day 10: WEDNESDAY Coconut Rice

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Cauliflower “Rice”

Day 11: THURSDAY Roasted Cauliflower “Rice”

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Creamy Potato Salad

Day 12: FRIDAY Creamy Potato Salad

Day 13: SATURDAY Bread workshop: Choose a bread or roll recipe from cookidoo or gluten free bread. My favourites are brioche, focaccia, tangzong bread Dani Valent’s Best Ever Bread Buns. Sophia’s Kitchen has amazing bread recipes too, the Artisan bread recipes is very popular.

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Chilli Mussels

Day 14: SUNDAY Chilli Mussels or Tomato Soup

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Beetroot Risotto

Day 15: MONDAY Beetroot risotto

Day 16: TUESDAY Fresh Pasta

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Bechamel Sauce

Day 17: WEDNESDAY Bechamel

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Lentil Bolognese

Day 18: THURSDAY Bolognese or Lentil Bolognese

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Thermie Green Dip

Day 19: FRIDAY Choose a dip like my favourite Thermie green dip & find a recipe on cookidoo for homemade crackers or lavosh

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Charlie’s Apricot Chutney

Day 20: SATURDAY Choose a jam, chutney, sauce or relish. I love Charlie’s Apricot Chutney – I add some fresh red chillies to the recipe.

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Pork Rillettes

Day 21: SUNDAY Pork Rillettes or Charlie Carrington’s chicken liver pate’ recipe or try a Mushroom Pate recipe from cookidoo

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Homemade Butter

Day 22: MONDAY Homemade Butter

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Homemade Yoghurt

Day 23: TUESDAY Homemade yoghurt or vegan fruity dream

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Beef Stir-Fry

Day 24: WEDNESDAY Dani Valent’s Beef Stir-Fry recipe

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Rhubarb Clafoutis

Day 25: THURSDAY Rhubarb clafoutis

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Moscow Mule recipe by Nico Moretti

Day 26: FRIDAY choose a cocktail/mocktail recipe from cookidoo.

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Meatballs

Day 27: SATURDAY Slow cooked meatballs with the blade cover.

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Sous Vide Wallaby using the sous vide kangaroo with rosemary recipe on cookidoo.

Day 28: SUNDAY Try something new – Do something that scares you – maybe it’s converting your own recipe to the Thermomix or maybe you would like to try the sous vide mode if you havent tried it yet.

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Kiss Biscuits

Day 29: MONDAY Kiss Biscuits or Soda Water Scones.

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Basque Cheesecake recipe by Dani Valent available on Cookidoo

Day 30: Tuesday – This Basque Cheesecake recipe by Dani Valent is the best way to celebrate becoming a Thermomixing superstar!! Congratulations on completing my 30 Day Thermomixing challenge!! I hope you had delicious fun!! Or try Dani’s Chocolate Volcano recipe on cookidoo from the Entertaining with Dani Valent Cookbook.

7 Days 7 Breads Challenge by the Thermomix Baking Blogger

Challenge accepted – Day 1:  Bloomer Loaf & Rolls, plus we started a sourdough starter 🙂

Day 2: Spelt Loaf

Day 3: Gluten Free Seed Loaf

Day 4: Focaccia

Yum this is the best focaccia I’ve ever made!!

 Day 5: Gluten Free Pumpernickel

 

Day 6: No Knead Loaf

 

Day 7: Sourdough Rye (I ate a lot before I could take the photo :-))

 

We made & fed a sourdough starter all the way through the challenge my starters name is bubbles 🙂

 

Breakfast at Tessellated Pavement – Ellie & Arwen’s Feta Dill Omelette with Smoked Salmon

While driving home from our Food Styling Photography course, we were talking about the sunrise on the Tessellated Pavements & Ellie said it was one of the most iconic & photographed spots in Tassie. I said, why don’t we do a food shoot there?! And we decided to run with it big time. With only a couple of weeks left of sunrise capturing available at the Tessellated Pavements we needed to get cracking! I couldn’t help it, I wanted to change the words to the song “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” to Breakfast at Tessellated. So we had our theme tune sorted now lots of other things to organise.

Our mission: To set up a beautiful delicious breakfast using Tasmanian produce, in time to capture the sunrise reflection on the tessellated pavement – Food photography for “posh ladies” – table for 4.

Food: – (Recipe below) Ellie & I made up a delicious Thermomix steamed fresh dill & feta omelette served with Tasmanian smoked salmon from Tassal Salmon Shop. I made some Ciabatta & homemade butter using Ashgrove cream. We had sparkling wine from Bangor Wine & Oysters. King Island Diary brie cheese wheel. Tasmanian lavender earl grey tea from the art of tea. Apple juice from Lucaston Park Orchards, fresh apples from my friend’s garden & fresh strawberries from my sister’s garden.

Props: I had seen the perfect trestle table that I just had to have but it wouldn’t fit in my small car! I wanted to take my wooden dining chairs too. We had a carafe, my Nana’s tea cups & saucers, napkins, table runner, vase & foliage, glasses & champagne flutes, candles & candelabra.

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Sunday early evening scout out: We realised that it was a fair 5 min walk to the Tessellated Pavement from the carpark & it included stairs. So we needed to take a little as possible to make a maximum of 2 trips each. There was a perfect spot with a log up out of the way & this would make perfect seats for us so no chairs needed. Ellie had some old fence palings & I brought my husband’s workshop wooden horses to act as the legs for our portable table. We styled it up the night before at Ellie’s house (thankfully she leaves only 5 mins drive away).

I set the alarm for 5.30am but woke up at 4, we had packed everything the night before & only had a couple of last min things to prepare before we left. Lucky we remembered the torch!! We had 1 person that did 2 trips & everyone else did 1. We got to work setting up our camera’s Taking photos while setting up the table & styling the food. Our photography teacher from TAFE even showed up!

Sunrise at Tessellated Pavement

Sunrise food table

Sunrise at the Pavement

Sunrise TP

Food Styling at TP

Food table at TP

Food table at TP 2

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Food iphone

Food serving

Well we thought it was well worth the effort, I have learnt a lot, (what to do & what not to do), an amazing few hours enjoying the sunrise & serenity not to mention the awesome company, delicious local food & drinks. How on earth will we be able to top this?!

A little video of part of the morning is here .

See Ellie’s blog post.

See my iPhone pictures on Facebook here

Oh I guess you want the recipe for the omelette?

Ellie & Arwen’s Feta Dill Omelette with Smoked Salmon (or Salmon Rashers)

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Ellie & Arwen's Dill Feta Omelette with Smoked Salmon
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Recipe type: Breakfast or Brunch
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Serves: Serves 4 - 6
 
Delicious eaten hot or cold
Ingredients
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 tablespoon fresh dill
  • 8 eggs
  • 100 grams cream
  • 100 grams Fetta
  • salt and pepper
  • 200 grams salmon or cooked salmon rashers to serve
  • Extra fresh dill to serve
  • 1 tbs of Salted capers (optional)
Instructions
  1. Place the peeled garlic clove, dill, eggs and cream to the bowl and a pinch of salt and pepper blend speed 8/10 sec.
  2. Spread a sheet of baking paper on the top tray of the varoma, pour the mix onto the baking paper and sprinkle feta on top.
  3. fill the bowl with 500g water then put the varoma in place and steam for 20 mins varoma temp speed 2.
  4. Serve with smoked salmon or grilled salmon rashers fresh dill & capers (optional)