Thursday, 24 October 2013

Meet Thelma, my maid of all work

Today I brought home a new addition to my kitchen. A thermomix that I have been coveting for over a year now. I have been trying to talk myself out of investing in one. I failed. I am glad. Thelma is awesome.
So today I got it home and unpacked by 4pm.
I made a smoothie with a frozen banana and about a cup of frozen raspberries and a cup of soy milk, it was so thick I had to eat it with a spoon. Yum.
For dinner I made a soup with cauliflower, carrot, onion, and some blue brie that was mouldering in the fridge. Very yum.

Cauliflower and Blue Cheese Soup
1 onion cut in quarters
1 carrot cut in 1 inch chunks
20g butter
half a small cauliflower (about 300g)
500g water
1tbs Vegie stock concentrate
about 60 to 90 g blue brie (or whatever cheese you have)

Add carrot and onion to bowl, speed 7 for 3 seconds.
Scrape sides then add butter, cook 3 minutes at Varooma temp speed 1.
Add cauliflower, chop speed 7 for 15 seconds.
Add water and stock, cook 20 minutes 100degrees at speed 1.
When cooked, blend for 1 minute at speed 9 building up gradually to top speed so you don't get a geyser!
Pour into a bowl and grind some black pepper over it.
makes three good servings.
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