What happens when the consultant goes home and you are left alone with this wonderful machine for the first time ever?
Well, personally, I was stuffed! An early start, hectic morning, and a LOT of food had be hanging for some nap time!
I had to cook something though! I flipped through the cookbook (the chip is great for while your cooking but the cookbook cannot be replaced!) looking for something we had the ingredients for - something yummy, and something nutritious for dinner.
I am a firm believer in 'start as you wish to continue' so I was looking for fast and easy - something that would suit my cooking style (minimalist!).
For the yummy I found a flourless almond cake with chocolate ganache (it has some fancy name in the cookbook!) so I started with that. Really easy and quick to whip up the cake mix and into the oven it went.
Then I started dinner - Mongolian Lamb Hot Pot! I didn't have all the ingredients and I swapped a few things (I used red Thai curry paste instead of sambal oelek for example). Once it was done, I popped it in the thermosaver, and did the rice and veggies. An extra 20 mins, but I was quite surprised that the meat stayed super hot in the thermosaver for that time!
The kids and husband were very happy with this dinner though I'm not a fan of having to do two lots of cooking (one for the meat and sauce, one for rice and veggies). I think a second machine would be very handy! The fact that both were easy as to set up and walk away cushioned the blow, but this might be a weekend recipe or one where I tag team with the husband so I can do stuff once I set up the first half of the meal! It is still a tonne better then standing in front of a stove for an hour!
I finished the ganache after dinner.
I stumbled across my first issue - can you have two guided recipes going at once? Answer is no. You can do other stuff and go back to a guided recipe with the 'place' saved, but not another guided recipe. All good though as the chocolate ganache is a recipe by itself. I know that you can skip ingredients but I am not sure if you can skip past the cooking elements of the recipe. I shall be checking with my consultant on that one (or try it out myself and see what happens!).
I finished the ganache after dinner.
I stumbled across my first issue - can you have two guided recipes going at once? Answer is no. You can do other stuff and go back to a guided recipe with the 'place' saved, but not another guided recipe. All good though as the chocolate ganache is a recipe by itself. I know that you can skip ingredients but I am not sure if you can skip past the cooking elements of the recipe. I shall be checking with my consultant on that one (or try it out myself and see what happens!).
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