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Thermomix Vanilla Chia Puddings

by Arwen | Aug 3, 2017 | Arwen's Thermomix Recipes, Food Styling, Photography, Thermomix, Thermomix Recipes | 0 comments

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Vanilla Chia Puddings

Author: Arwen Genge

Recipe type: Breakfast or Snack

Cook time: 6 mins

Total time: 6 mins

Serves: 6 serves

A filling & delicious, dairy free & sugar free breakfast or snack.

Ingredients

150g of chosen nuts (my favourite are macadamia or cashews) almonds are popular too.
1 vanilla bean (or 2 - 4 tsp of homemade vanilla bean paste)
1000g filtered water
good pinch of salt
2 Tbs coconut oil
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp freshly grated nutmeg (optional)
50g cacao nibs (optional)
100g chia seeds
Fresh berries to serve

Instructions

Soak nuts over night or for 6 hours, in filtered water drain & rinse the nuts.
Place the nuts & vanilla bean into the TM bowl & chop for 30 secs on speed 10 (if you want a chocolate version you have the option to add your cacao nibs now too)
Add the filtered water, coconut oil, salt, cinnamon & nutmeg, blitz for 1 - 1.30 on speed 9 (turning the dial up slowly from speed 1 - 9)
Add the chia seeds & mix for 5 mins, 37 degrees, reverse, speed 3.5.
The mixture will still be quite liquid, transfer into serving containers & place into the fridge to set for approx 1.5 - 2 hrs.
To serve, sprinkle over fresh berries.

Notes

You might like to mix the cacao nibs in at the end instead to add a nice texture to the puddings.
You might like to add a few dates, if you prefer a sweeter pudding.

So many variations to try with your own favourite flavours

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

by Arwen | Mar 28, 2016 | Arwen's Thermomix Recipes, Dinner, Foodie Adventures, Photography, Thermomix, Thermomix Recipes | 2 comments

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.

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!

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

Author: Eloise Emmett & Arwen Genge

Recipe type: Breakfast or Brunch

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 20 mins

Total time: 25 mins

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

Place the peeled garlic clove, dill, eggs and cream to the bowl and a pinch of salt and pepper blend speed 8/10 sec.
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.
fill the bowl with 500g water then put the varoma in place and steam for 20 mins varoma temp speed 2.
Serve with smoked salmon or grilled salmon rashers fresh dill & capers (optional)

Prep Prop Style Shoot Weekend – The Sequel

by Arwen | Mar 12, 2016 | Dinner, Food Styling, Foodie Adventures, Photography, Thermomix, Thermomix Recipes | 0 comments

I had only been looking forward to this weekend for about 5 months (because it was rescheduled from Nov15) After my busy week at Thermofest I was quite exhausted but still excited to be heading with my camera & iPhone to a fun weekend food styling, with self taught expert stylist & photographer JJ from 84th & 3rd, while eating Ellie‘s delicious food. I stopped at Salamanca Market on the way down to Highcroft to collect a couple of bunches of Lisa Kingston Flowers gorgeous arrangements (My wonderful friend Ulla from Dragonfly Farm grows the proteas for her) Also collected some cucumbers for our special smoothie & a stopped at one of my favourite places Bangor Wine & Oyster Shed for a bottle of their amazing sparkling wine, some fresh oysters & shucking knife – I also grabbed a sneaky coffee 🙂

I arrived at the new location it had ended up being a 1 hour drive from Hobart, from the outside I wondered if I had made a mistake & gone to the wrong address? I later found out was a rustic CWA hall with amazing old tables & retro chairs gorgeous natural light flooding in through the windows, in other words a dream come true. There were 7 of us on the first including Ellie & JJ. Oh and did I mention Ellie brought her Thermomix too!!

So there was a big table set up with lots of props & cloths. A little taste of Ellie’s collection & JJ had brought a few things too. So our first mission; can you make canned soup look good? Answer YES!! We had pumpkin soup, tomato soup & cream of asparagus soup. And Ellie had some fresh baguettes she had made (dough made in the Thermomix of course). We had been all given some Olsson’s Salt in our goodie bags too, so great practice for product placement 😉

I was instantly drawn to the tomato soup & this is what happened!!

This is one of my favourite shots!!

Now it’s time for LUNCH!! (no we didn’t eat the soup!!) When I say time for lunch it means that after about 1/2 of taking lots of pics on our cameras & phones from every angle & every dish we can eat!! Ellie made my favourite octopus salad YUM!!

Octopus Salad

Vegan Tomato Tart

After lunch we moved onto balls – yes round things that are so popular in so many different flavours but it is hard to make them look good or is it?

We have had this honeycomb for a while so decided to get a last few shots before we ate it 🙂

Now we haven’t eaten for at least an hour or so lets set up for dinner outside with fairy lights – this was a dream of Elli’s for the last workshop in August 15 but alas the weather stopped us, but not today it was just perfect! We brought the table & chairs outside & set the table. Then got ready for the fresh oysters, Ellie shucked then quickly in front of us & cracked opened the sparkling wine from Bangor Oyster Shed.

What an absolutely awesome feast we had potato & hot smoked salmon salad, fennel & pepper berry beef with goats cheese, roast beetroot and hazelnut salad and a marinated shark on an Asian style salad. Check out Ellie’s blog for her photos & recipes!

Day 2: Breakfast & then picnic lunch in a pear orchard, how dreamy!!

I made JJ’s smoothie recipe in the Thermomix – yes I carried the Thermomix on my lap on the way in the car too!! JJ will post her recipe soon for me to share but you get a hint when you look in the bowl!!