Crunchie Icecream Slice

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I spent the arvo with my doll of a cousin today, Manfa.  She had borrowed her mum's machince for a few days and enjoys making all the 'sweet stuff'!! While she slaved away chop chop chopping 10 humungous sweet potatoes, I busied myself by making a delicious ice cream slice. 

A tupperware container was lined with 'Malt 'o' Milk' biscuits.  The biscuits didn't quite fit the base, but that was fine, as the mixture was thick enough to prevent an unsightly and unfortunate ooze!!

The Crunchie/Violet Crumble (with half missing...Josko!!!) was crushed in the thermo using the turbo button a couple of times in closed lid position.  This was then set aside in a bowl for later.

I popped 100g sugar, 10g cocoa (the recipe calls for 30g, but Sam preferred it with less cocoa), and an egg in the bowl and milled it for 20 sec on speed 10.

I then put the butterfly in, poured in the 600gms of cream and whipped it on speed 4 for about 1 minute, at this point, the crunchie could have been added in to be mixed into the mixture, thought Sam prefers it sprinkled on top of the mixture.

I carefully splodged (technical term!!) the mixture evenly on the biscuits, trying to make sure that the mixture touched every biscuit so they stayed together and didn't move around before I gently smoothed it down to create a level surface.

I sprinkled the Crunchi mixture on top.

Mmmm...delicious!!

And then the jigsaw begins, make sure you place the top biscuits to match the biscuits underneath so you are able to get a 'sandwich' style piece when you are ready to serve it.

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After I'd finished, we put the lid on and popped it in the freezer...I'm hoping Sam will save me a piece for the next time I randomly pop over for a visit!!

Yummoooooooo!!

Chicken Liver Pate

Well I have had some chicken livers in the freezer for a while and I looove pate, so I thought I'd give the EDC recipe a crack. It was very quick, and super easy, and am now just waiting for it to cool to taste it!!
I popped in a big garlic clove and an onion and buzzed it at speed 7 for about 7 seconds.  I sauted that for 4 mins (the recipe says 2, but I was doing a double batch) then added in the rest of the ingredients in (all doubled). This included the livers (1kg) salt and pepper to taste, 2 bay leaves, 60g tomato paste, 80g butter, 2 sprigs of parsley and I SHOULD have put in 4 tblsp of cream but i didn't have any, so i omitted it (hmm).
I buzzed that on speed 7 for about 20 sec to accomodate the double batch (it is usually 10 secs).

I then cooked the mixture for 8 minutes, 100C on speed 4.

Mmmm, appetising, lol.

I melted some butter in the microwave, and waited for the white stuff to sink to the bottom, so it was essentially clarified butter (lazy version)

I mixed in some pepper corns to a quarter of the mixture as my dad loves it with pate with pepper corns.

I spooned the pate into these small bowls, the glass ones being the pepper corn pate and then poured over the clarified butter to seal the pate and prevent oxidation.

This very suspicious looking stain was made when I got slightly over zealous with the butter and poured a bit of the milk solids (I think that's what it is) in with the butter!!

Just so Dad knew which ones he could eat :)

Welcome

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To all my wonderful Thermomix clients out there, this is for you!!
I'm seriously excited about starting a blog, something I have never contemplated before becoming a Thermomix Consultant.

I've had lots of fun designing the way my blog should look, getting much inspiration from many other blogs that I love to look at and interact with. I hope that this blog is inviting and fun and will encourage you to cook your little hearts out and then let us all know how you went!!

So...lets get to it!!!