Magic Meals

Bolognese Sauce

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!!

  1. Of course you can serve your bolognese sauce with pasta or vegetable noodles!!
Vegetarian Lentil Bolognese Sauce

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.

Shepherds Pie

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.

Pastitsio

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.

Lasagna
Lasagna

Thermomix 28 Day Meal Plan 2020

YAY!! Thermomix Australia have revamped the 28 Day Challenge – there are 2 to choose from the 28-Day Fresh Start Meal Plan and the 28-Day Savings Meal Plan. I have decided to do the Savings Meal Plan with some of the new recipes from the Fresh Start Meal Plan included because I have made most of those recipes last time I did the challenge. I will be doing a live facebook video of each recipe everyday (if i miss a day I will make up for it on a different day – I promise!!) And I will be posting a photo of the finished recipe on my instagram, facebook business page and also in the 28 Day Meal Plan facebook group. So who is up for the challenge? It’s a fun way to try new recipes!! I have had to start the on a Friday instead of a Sunday as I will be away towards the end of the 28 days!! Sign up here for free. The recipes are on cookidoo and you can sign up for a 30 day free trial of cookidoo too.

Day 1: Creamy Mustard Chicken Stew – I used sweet potato instead of the potato & I would definitely make it again it was yummy quick and easy!!
Day 2: Lentil Bolognese – the recipe uses lentils from a tin – I cooked my own before starting the recipe.
Day 3: Chocolate ‘feed a crowd’ Cake
Day 4: (Meatless Monday) Vegetable Curry with Cauliflower Couscous
Day 5: Barley Bacon & Chorizo Soup
Day 6: Pastitsio
Day 7: Pork Meatballs with Couscous
Day 8: Fake Away Friday – Quick Chicken Curry
Day 9: Shakshuka
Day 10: Chicken and Cashew Stir Fry
Day 11: Meatless Monday Smoky Beetroot and Black Bean Sliders with Soused Cucumber – served on Buckwheat and Almond Slider Buns.
Day 12: Beetroot Salad with Raita Dressing
Day 12: Texas-style Lovely Legs
Day 13: Apricot Chicken Risotto
Day 14: Kangaroo Harissa Polpette with Lentils and Kale
Day 15: Fake-away Friday Gozleme
Day 16: Health by Chocolate Torte (Skinnymixers recipe)
Day 17: Gluten Free Flour Mix
Day 18: Smashed Potatoes with Rosemary Salt
Day 19: Corned Beef with Mustard Sauce
Day 20: Chopped Asian Salad
Day 20: Open Fish Burgers
Day 21: Coffee-rubbed Beef with Fennel Salad
Day 22: Nasi Goreng
Day 23: Hash Browns with Chive Cottage Cheese
Day 24; Chicken, Leek and Corn Pie
Day 25: Meatless Monday – Pulled BBQ Jackfruit
Day 26: Chunky Bolognese -Skinnymixers recipe
Day 27: (My last day) Chocolate Cream Pie – I added cherries on top of the chocolate custard!!