In the Mix is second at the Gourmand World Cookbook awards! Congratulations Dani!

In the Mix: Great Thermomix Recipes, went to Paris this month to be part of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. In the Mix came in second! The award director, Edouard Cointreau, lavished In the Mix with praise.

This cookbook is a beautiful hardcover cookbook filled with Thermomix recipes and photos contributed by chefs and cooks from all over Australia.  If you'd like a copy of would like to have a look, let me know

Chocolate Truffles

Ingredients

600g of milk cooking chocolate ( do not use compound chocolate)

250g of thickened cream

Approx 30g of Honey

Vanilla bean or 20- 30g of liqueur of choice.

Extra 500g of rich dark cooking chocolate for dipping.

Dessicated coconut or flaked almonds for garnish

Method

Place cream, honey and scrapings from vanilla bean, or liqueur in bowl and heat for 5 mins/100C/speed 1.

Add 600g of cooking choc and mix on speed 1 until choc has melted and cooled to 37C .

Place ganache in a container cover with cling wrap until cooled and you are able to roll in ball shape. Place in Fridge for a couple of hours

Dipping Chocolate

Place chocolate in bowl and grate for 10sec on speed 8.

Melt for 2 ½ mins/50C/speed 2.

Scrape down the sides and mix for 1 min/speed 2/no heat.

Place in a bowl for dipping

When ganache is firm use spoon, melon baller or wet hands to make balls.

If firm enough use toothpick to pick up ganache ball and dip in the dark chocolate. Sprinkle with coconut or flaked almonds.

Set them on baking paper or place them in little cup cake moulds.

Enjoy.

Three Cheese Spinach Scroll

Thanks to Anne Tesconi

Ingredients

100g of cheddar chopped

100g of parmesan chopped

100g of fetta crumbled

2 handfuls of spinach

300mls warm water

20mls oil

1 sachet of yeast

530g of Bakers flour

1 teaspoon of salt

Method

Place parmesan into bowl and grate 8 – 10 sec on speed 8

Place cheddar into bowl and grate for 8 – 10 sec on speed 8

Crumble fetta cheese by hand

Set cheeses aside. Do not wash out bowl

Place spinach in bowl and chop at speed 7/ 5 seconds.

Add warm water, oil and yeast and mix for 15secs/speed 4-5

Add bakers flour and salt and mix for 10 secs on speed 5-6

Knead for 2 mins kneading/interval speed.

Remove dough from bowl onto greased mat, shape into ball and wrap in mat until doubled in size.

Once risen knock back and roll out into a rectangle approx 40 x 30

Then sprinkle as much of the cheeses over dough as you like.

Commence rolling the dough from the short side to form a big scroll/roll

Place on lined baking tray.

Cook for 40 – 45 mins in a 200C non pre heated oven.

To make sure it is cooked tap the bread if it sounds hollow it is ready to come out.

Remove from oven and cut across the grain in thick slices.

Enjoy

Thermomix ricotta cheese!

Thanks very much to Jo who just shared this link with me - how to make ricotta cheese in 20 minutes in the Thermomix and save around 50% in the cost of purchasing it at the store.

Click on Thermomix ricotta for the recipe

Refer a friend and receive a gift

I encourage you all to refer a friend to me to have a demo or purchase a Thermomix.  As from March 1st, I will be offering everyone who refers a friend a gift - you may choose from :
- silicon cup cake moulds - similar to the ones I use in the Varoma demo to make the steamed lemon puddings, or
- two Thermomix eco-friendly bamboo tea towels - these are beautifully soft and absorbent.

March Offer

This month everyone who purchases a Thermomix will also receive the beautiful hardcover Travelling with Thermomix international cookbook.  This is a lovely book devoted to cooking around the world with information about the food in each geographical area it covers.

Also, everyone who hosts a Varoma demo will receive a Varoma cookbook and an Asian cookbook - free if there is a sale at your demo, and half price if no sale.

Let me know if you are interested in having a demo and we can organise a date for you and your friends

Lay-by your Thermomix!

Would you love a Thermomix, don't want to do a finance plan, but can't afford to pay up front?  How about setting up a gift registry with Thermomix and paying off your machine as a lay-by system?  You could set it up for 6 months, make payments whenever you can afford to and have your machine sitting on your bench once it is paid off..... sound tempting?  Imagine - you could have your Thermomix in your kitchen in 6 months time by paying off only $75 per week!

Let me know if you interested in this and we can set it up over the phone.  There is a $70 fee charged by Thermomix, which I will waive to get you started.