Food, Fun and Fires in the Kitchen

 

I cant cook to save myself so in search of a quick fix way of turning DRAB food into FAB food, I went out and spent a considerable amount of hard earned dosh on THE magical kitchen appliance that promised to make me a Master Chef in no time.  I bought a Thermomix! 



Ta Daaaa!



But sadly, it turns out that the Thermomix has a few flaws:

 A) It doesn’t go to the shop and buy the correct ingredients for you.

 B) It lacks an oven attachment, thus not eliminating sunken cakes or scorch marks.

C) It s self cleaning feature doesn’t clean of burnt on hard stuff from when you don't read the recipe properly – that still requires the old fashioned pot scrubber method.

I have had her nearly 12 months and felt it was time to show her off to the Blogoshphere, so without further ado I would like to introduce my first (and probably only) Blogged Recipe, a failsafe of course:

SUPER FAB ANZAC BISCUITS!

Step 1: Clear out life savings and purchase Thermomix.

Step 2: Check what ingredients you need in your Thermomix Cookbook and chuck em in! If you do it in the specified order and press buttons as per recipe method.  It will look something like this:

FAB and totally how it's supposed to look

Step 3: Take a large tea spoon's worth of the mush ingredients at a time and roll them into balls and place on baking tray like this:

BEWARE – don’t space them to close to each other like this:

Or this happens:



A tad DRAB - I only did this for demonstration purposes of course *ahem*



SET OVEN TIMER – they take roughly 10-15 minutes depending on your oven.

Once cooked they will look something like this:

Somewhat uneven in size and shape perhaps, but the kids still loved them which is the most important thing.

WARNING, dont forget to set the oven timer or they will turn out more like this:

 Which is why whenever I bake I try to keep one of these handy:

A FAB way of putting out your kitchen fires!

*Disclaimer*

• This post was (obviously) NOT sponsered by 'Thermomix'. 
• Taking advice from this blog page will not enable you to cook FAB Anzac bikkies. At all.
• Please have your fire extinguishers serviced reguarly, it turns out they are a little DRAB when they are empty.

This has been another DRAB 2 FAB edition. Want to join in the link up party too?  Head over to the divine Diminishing Lucy and add your own Drab2Fab moment!

Party Plan Princess

It struck me the other day as I was cleaning the kitchen with my Enjo products. I had just wiped out the Tupperware cupboard, cleaned around the Thermomix and lit one of my vanilla ‘Partylite’ candles.

I’m a party plan princess – that or I’m a total sucker and my house is just a giant show case of my inability to say No.

I am aware of it in the shower with my ‘Body Shop @ Home’ shower gels, I see it in my study when I sit down for a bit of scrapbooking with my Kaszazz papers and Stamp it Up! Stamps.

I have a friend who has recently become a nutrametics consultant, another who does chocoholics anonymous (now that one is very dangerous!), whenever these friends convince one of my other friends to have a party I go because I feel obligated to, then I buy something – for the same reason, and probably end up having my own party in which I also spend money because I feel bad for the consultant if I don’t. How do the other people say No? I came scarily close to purchasing a $3000 vacuum cleaner once and don’t even get me started on the time a friend joined Amway!

That being said, I am hopeless in the kitchen and I probably wouldn’t cook at all if it wasn’t for the Thermomix.  Enjo makes cleaning a breeze plus it’s environmentally friendly. The vanilla Partylite candles send a lovely aroma through the room as I relax scrapbooking and stamping, and who doesn’t like smelling like Body shop strawberries while they apply their nutrimetics cucumber face mask? I think part of my problem is that I have worked in sales most of my life and as a result can make anything look good – but I am supposed to use this tactic on customers, not on myself!

Can you say No? Are you a party plan princess or even a party plan sales consultant? What tactics do you use to avoid Party Plan or limit your spending?

Thank goodness we recently moved from the city to the middle of nowhere as I now have far less party plan invitations – well there are the two I have recently received for a handbag party and a shoe party in a few weekends time, but I can be strong! I have distance as a great excuse; perhaps one of the kids can be ‘unwell’? Then again, the strap on my current handbag is fraying and I really could use a new pair of shoes....