Teatime Today: Brothers' Day

With Thermomix, I weighed, milled and mixed this crustless egg bake using up the last of this week's farmers market veggies. I rinsed the Thermomix bowl and weighed and mixed the cake batter.  It's fun and easy to cook with Thermomix, and we eat really well too.  Little Brother has outgrown his egg allergy.  I occasionally make him eggs.  I have reasons to limit the amount of egg he eats.  When I do give him eggs, they are fresh from the farmers market.  

So easy to pack egg bake in bento box for lunch

At home, best enjoyed with a salad composed fully of farmers market freshness.  Great with kraut too. Goat feta is from Blue Heron.  I love the vibration of having a real connection with what we eat. 

Leftovers kept in fridge with fabric cover from Mighty Nest

So many of our favorite treats come from feastingonfruit.com.  Recipe here.  Thermomix makes it so much easier to make these treats by weighing, milling an mixing.

Boys decorate their Brothers' Day cake together

Ready to dig in

Reality is that Boys dose every afternoon as part as oral immunothearpy.  Big Brother has come very far over past 7 months, reaching his present daily dose of 1/16 teaspoon.  We have special measuring spoons for dosing. The better the teatime treat, the easier it is to dose. Boys are desensitizing together and this year's Brothers' Day treat highlights this journey together.

Tradition is to use their money to buy a gift together.  Thank you, Boys, for teaching me how to care for your sweet relationship. 

Hands-On Houston Museum of Contemporary Craft (we love this place!) happened to be cardboard food.  So we made another chocolate cake this weekend to celebrate. 

Teatime Today: watermelon lime juice

With Thermomix, I can turn veggies and fruit into juice or smoothies with true ease.  We had so much yellow watermelon this week, so mason jars of juice came outside to pool with us to combat the Houston heat.  While Boys put their swim suits on, I blended watermelon with fresh squeeze lime: 1 minute, speed 10.  I infuse with fresh herbs.  No complaining in the heat this way!

Little Brother is curious to give it a try

Back to red watermelon.  Thermomix can do most anything, this is just one of them.  And since Thermomix is always on your counter, and virtually self-cleans, you can make things one after the next. And you can make this juice on the way out the door.

Teatime Today: coffee frappe

Today for tea time, Papi made us coffee frappes. I requested something icy.  I only occasionally drink coffee these days. Today was one of those days. It’s summer. It’s hot.  He added to TM bowl: 200 grams ice cubes and 200 grams frozen coffee/milk cubes, leftover coffee from the morning and a drop of maple syrup. He blended the mix for 45 seconds on speed 9 and then topped with some raw cacao powder.  After a moment of relaxing, rinsed the Thermomix bowl and made some hummus. 

Teatime Today: Matcha Latte

Outside after drop-on a beautiful, spring morning. The fragrance of jasmine surrounds this lovely daily indulgence. When taken to go for the early morning trip to school, a nose can become spotted with green sips from the travel mug.

375 grams homemade almond milk with cinnamon, matcha and collagen
4 minutes, 80 degrees c, speed 4
froth, speed 9
Thermomix is my café!

Hot today, maybe with ice and a date tomorrow.  The weather will dictate.

Tea time today: iced cacao latte

350 grams homemade almond milk, 4 cubes of ice, raw cacao powder, cinnamon and cardamom. All blended on speed 9 for about a minute or so.
My Thermomix is my personal coffee shop, playground, source of creativity and nourishment. Cheers to 10 years of living well with Thermomix!

A Favorite Thermomix Chocolate Cake

raspberries are the perfect flavor compliment

I love my cake transporter

Thermomix weighs and mills the chocolate and almonds

Thermomix mixes the batter perfectly

tea time couldn't get better

Birthday set up

next to our favorite top-allergen free classic cookie pie

ready for the simplest 2-ingredient ganache

ingredient list: gluten free and refined sugar-free

Teatime Today: hot chocolate

325 grams of half homemade almond and half homemade coconut milk.
Heat 80 degrees, 4 minutes, speed 4
Froth by slowly turning up to speed 9 for 20 seconds
Today I added cinnamon and cardamom

Teatime Today: wheatgrass in fancy glass

Teatime Today: Apple Cider Donuts

We are fully enjoying these apple cider donuts for Christmas afternoon snack before the Tejas Farm turkey goes in the oven.  Original recipe found here.  While not a Thermomix recipe, I love the ingredients of everything on Feastingforfruit.com.  I also love that the Thermomix simplifies baking: weighs ingredients precisely without using measuring cups, mills fresh flour, heats coconut oil from solid to liquid, and blends perfectly

twisting out tea time

hugging little hands

size and texture to our liking

half-eaten view

Teatime Today: homemade Thermomix coconut milk smoothie with raw cacao and cardamom

Today I made a bi-weekly batch of Thermomix coconut milk.  Instead of rinsing the Thermomix after making the coconut milk, I continued with an afternoon cold beverage.  250 grams of freshly made coconut milk, raw cacao powder, collagen, cinnamon, ice and a drop of Doterra cardamom oil. Refreshing and energizing! In the same Thermomix bowl where I made coconut milk and a beverage, I'll make grass-fed meatballs and steamed sprouted rice.  And before bed I'll grind my own flours and make waffle batter for tomorrow's breakfast. I love you, Thermomix!

Teatime Today: Green Juice

It's gloriously simple to prepare juice in the Thermomix.  Today I needed some green juice. So in went into the Thermomix bowl: kale, dandelion greens, red apple, cucumber, celery and lemon juice along with a handful of ice cubes.  I blended on speed 9 for 15 seconds. Then I added room temperature water, the same quantity that I wanted to drink.  I blended the juice on speed 9 for 1-2 minutes.  And with very little effort, I strained the juice using the Thermomix basket into this glass.  Cheers! This all took 4 minutes.

Teatime Today: pumpkin lucuma popsicles

Our favorite pumpkin lucuma ice cream frozen into popsicles.

Teatime Today: dragonfruit ice cream

Add to TM bowl: one frozen dragon fruit packet, 1/2 cup frozen mango and 1/2 cup frozen strawberries.  Blend, add a about 1/4 cup of homemade mylk, blend again and eat! Thermomix blends such treats with 
power and delicacy

Teatime Today: chilled coconut matcha latte

300 grams TM homemade coconut milk from Quirky Cooking cookbook, 1 teaspooon matcha powder, dash of cinnamon, 1 tablespooon collagen, 1 pitted date.  Blend in TM, speed 9, 1 minute.

Teatime Today: maple snow cones

Planning and preparing for what we are serving at the Canada table at our school's international festival. Today, Thermomix is a snow cone machine. Our sample is snack.

Add 1 tray of ice to TM bowl, speed 8 for 10 seconds.  
Scrape down and repeat. Scoop crushed ice into cups and top with pure maple syrup

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Teatime Today: heladito de platanito y lucuma

Today for snack Little Brother added one frozen banana and about 1/4 teaspoon of lucuma powder to the TM bowl.  He then turned the dial to speed 4 for a few seconds.  We then scraped down the sides and he turned the dial to speed 3 for a second or two. 2 ingredient ice cream to be enjoyed outside on the patio before doing some weeding.  He wants to plant watermelons this weekend.

Teatime Today: loquats

gift from my friend :)

Little Brother rediscovering his love for loquats, or as we call them at home-nísperos

Teatime Today: Date fudge

We are invited to a seder tonight for the first night of Passover.  We are bringing this simple to make date fudge.  This fudge has just a few ingredients and is free of dairy, gluten and egg.  If you cannot eat almonds, perhaps try with some sunflower seed butter.  If you have a Thermomix, nut and seed butters can be made prior to the fudge and then you wouldn't have to clean up as the residue would just be part of fudge.  *The next time I make I will weigh out with the Thermomix scale so that I don't have to measure. Original recipe found here

What you need:
1 cup pitted Medjool dates, soaked in warm water for 30 minutes to softnen
2 tablespoons coconut oil
1/2 cup roasted almond butter (I use half TJ's roasted almond butter which is free of peanut contamination)
1/4 cup unsweetened raw cacao powder.
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch of pink salt
*a bit of honey or maple syrup if you want sweeter

What to do:
melt coconut oil if needed in Thermomix, 37 degrees for about 1 minute

add in soaked dates and blend on speed 4-6 for about a minute until softened into a paste

add in the almond butter, vanilla extract, cacao and salt

press mixture in brownie pan lined with parchment paper

top with nuts and/or Enjoy Life chocolate chips 

place in freezer for at least an hour

cut and serve

leftovers must be stored in freezer as it gets gooey at room temperature

Laughng Giraffe vegan Snakaroons and our date fudge along with our friend's most delicious and moist flourless chocolate cake