And I'm talking about the prices here of the latest kitchen appliance that is touted to be the next "big thing."
Is it possible that the way we cook, eat, use processed food is on the brink of big changes?
Thermomix, Thermochef, Cooking Chef, Hotmix Pro to name a few of the new list of appliances that will revolutionise the way we cook etc etc....
In Australia at least, we'd need to be able to justify the kind of expenditure that would make you wish your children were still only a concept that considers some thought...next year maybe..
Back when all I did with paychecks was buy kitchen appliances, bedding and entertainment, I could have almost justified spending the amounts being asked for some of these kitchen luxuries.
I'm not jumping at anything just yet, I still like my trusty little Sunbeam Stickmaster Pro. It mostly does what I need. Except for a few little.....gripes..(tiny bowl is the worst of it and of course it doesn't weigh or cook...I have a brain that mostly still works so I'm not so worried....it's free at least if a little glitchy some days...)
I've liked the Thermomix recipes I've tried. Of course I have to discriminate between the possible recipes and the impossible ones. (Yes, there are some..) I'm still having fun trying different things.
My favourite "thermomix" recipes so far: (made with the trusty $75 Sunbeam.)
Garlic and Herb Dip.
Ingredients:
Small bunch fresh Parsley
1 small clove garlic
2 shallots/spring onions
250 g cream cheese
2 tbsp yoghurt or 10–20 g Milk (optional)
Method:
Do you need one? Bung it all in, turn it on, blitz it together, scrape out.
Not hard.
Beetroot and Carrot salad.
Ingredients:
400g raw beetroot (peeled & quartered, or just do what you gotta do...)
100g carrot, quartered
1/4 small red onion
1 green apple, quartered & deseeded
1 handful of fresh coriander/Italian parsley leaves - like coriander the best.
2 tbsp olive oil
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tsp Rapadura sugar
pinch salt
Method:
Once again, bung it in, a bit at a time if you need to, blitz, scrape out and mix it all together.
Juicy Lucy (an adaption inspired by passion4fruit.)
Ingredients:
1 pear, deseeded and quartered
Heaps of watermelon, deseeded and roughly chopped (I can't tell you how much, experiment, the pear is a pretty strong flavour) Probably a quarter of a melon would do for starters though..
Freshly squeezed lime juice, depends how tangy you like it but I'd start with the juice of 2 limes. Add more if you need to.
Ice. Depends on your fp and how it smashes ice but I use the thinnest pieces I can, freshly frozen and not too hard.
Water - can be sparkling.
Method:
Blitz the fruit with the juice. Try not to splash it all over the bench top because you don't have a fancy dancy $2000 kitchen appliance, give up trying not to splash it all over the bench top..because it just. does.
Blitz the ice...whatever works, rolling pin in a plastic bag...ah, the old fashioned way....
Pour into a jug.
Add the sparkling water. Slowly.
Add vodka/tequila/poison of choice, because you've made such a mess it's going to take you "some time" to get the stickiness out of the kitchen.
Drink in the kind of glass that is made for such decadence.
Leave the ants to clean the kitchen.
(well not really, I'm a little obsessive compulsive when it comes to bench tops, ants and summer....but I won't be upset if you do..)
Ah, the joy of trying new things..!! :)
