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25/02/2017

Thermomix

G'day Mates!

Hope you all are fine?? Strange title hey! Ever heard of a Thermomix? Let me explain....

The owners of our previous house sitting address (our lovely friends we had Christmas with) also have one and she (Delia) told me to use it the few weeks we were taking care of their little doggies but I didn't dare to touch it, it looks like something out of a science fiction film and it scared me off.

In the house we now are is also one, an older model but who cares, Delia sort of forced me to use it and I think I'm now hooked on it.  I know I'm in trouble when we are leaving this house to travel again, can't do without it anymore but it's too big and expensive to buy one myself.

OK, enough talking, let me show you the monster first;


Well?? What do you think? Scary hey?

But it is soo simple and easy, you really can do everything with it. It does general cooking, chopping, crushing, grating, kneading, steaming, etc etc

There are cooking books with thousands of recipes for it and it tells you what to do step by step, here is an example;


I hope you can read it, this is the result;



Of course the bread itself has to go into the oven but mixing the ingredients and kneading the dough is being done in the thermomix and how easy is that!

More lovely things I made;

Haha, this was my first trial, oeps not all good but......



Because I really feel as I could participate on My Kitchen Rules with this machine I thought;  "what the hell, lets go big....


Pizza dough.......


self made Pizza's are the BEST....


For the next bread, Focaccia, the dough has to rise, of course at a warm spot and because when it's so hot outside and we have the air condition on it's not easy inside, suddenly I had an eureka moment; "our caravan";

Nice and warm in the sun, inside it can be as warm as 35/40 degrees, it works perfect;





The dough is very sticky... (haha, I even had it stuck on my shirt)


Result;



Together with the Focaccia; Lovely!


With this one I was a bit stupid not to wear a mask as I nearly choked....



And my own Pesto;


Even made a zucchini bread (the front one);


I could go on for ever guys but it's enough for now.

Anyway I know one thing for sure; when I ever, ever get my own kitchen again, where ever in the world this may be, I'll buy this magnificent kitchen gadget, Fair Dinkum!!
(I'll start saving now)


Cheers!














11/02/2017

Dunsborough, South-West Australia, a concert of Maggie

G'day Mates,

To stay in that corner of my previous story in West Australia, today I have a small story of Dunsborough which is a lovely little holiday town in the Margaret River Wine Region.

It's got a beautiful foreshore, well maintained provided with all services people need;



Its great to walk along the shore, wind in the hear, minding your own business....



Picturing great creatures who live in the dunes.....(Blue tongue lizard)


But there is also a great track to walk along the coast from the end of Dunsborough, the Meelup-Dunsborough coastal trail which is 7.4 km long. 


We didn't walk to the end as you also have to go back but you pass beautiful deserted beaches on which you can enjoy the stillness and the sound of the water... 







We also passed these beautiful flowers of which I couldn't resist taking pictures of ...





Coming back in Dunsborough.....


...a great concert was waiting for us, what a wonderful way to end this story, enjoy!!!

Movie time;