Muffins n mantou

Another day playing around with thermomix.

Thought of making muffins for son to bring to school. So assemble out stuff available in the fridge.

Pretty fast it mix up and the longest time was me scouping the batter into the cup.  One drawback is that there would be some batter left in the mixing bowl, cause were under the knife not easy to get them all out. On the other hand, cleaning up is very fast. Some liquid dishwasher and a spind, left only some cleaning with hands. If ordinary cake mixer, it would be easy to get all the batter out, but then cleaning freezes me....

made a dozen muffins

I added prune and raisins. And substitute soy milk made earlier for milk. Look good? Well, it taste just nice :)

Oh o, what about breakfast? I thought perhaps better to have another food as breakfast. If not, he will have breakfast - muffin, morning snack - muffin, afternoon snack - muffin. Son might got fedup wo..
So, so, so... dig out some ordinary flour and wa la:

Added sesame seeds (first toasted 3mins using Varoma heat). Hmm.. very crunchy mantou indeed.

Comparing to norm or traditionally - knead by hand. Steam with wok and to monitor time. Need paper for mantou to "sit" and cloth lining on the steaming tray.

Using thermomix - knead with it and temperature setting to 37 deg C to help kick start yeast. When steaming, just use Varoma temperature setting and it will beep when done. Cool. I can do other activity while it's cooking. yeah :)

In one day, after lunch made muffins and before bed made mantou. Couldn't have made these by norm. I would be too tired to wanting to make them. Good thing I have thermomix now to help. haha..

Porridge

This morning made porridge. Plain one with minced pork.

Here's a peek at the TM31 recipe book:

comes together with thermomix

See the photos in the book, saliva start to build up :P

porridge, noodles, lo mi fan.. yummy

One good thing using thermomix to cook, is that the boiling foam won't spill out. It just stayed within the cover. And it is constantly rotating, I will not have to worry food burn at the bottom of bowl. So I can be moving around without fixation at the stove.

plain porridge + a bit of pork

My aunty came this morning and thought I cook "thicken flour".  No teeth also can eat this. I followed the recipe in book and the ingredients were in estimation.

Went to a demo this afternoon, Henry said to use speed 1 and counter clockwise button. If want to have porridge with whole shape of rice, use gentle stir setting. Ooooo... got so many different texture of porridge to play with. Cool!

Some tips were shared, but alas, in on left ear, out on right ear. Remember only soy milk cooking tip. And making up cakes takes 1/3 normal time using thermomix. Well, to update again =)

Azuki bean and barley

First use : cook Azuki bean and barley

Followed the instruction to grind them. Then add 1 liter water, set time, temperature 100deg C, then the speed.

Want a cup?

Mix of mushy and bits of grain

Next round, going to grind them more before cooking. Then it will be much more mushy, even no teeth can eat. Yaya, to perfect the 'skill' to make drink for Ah Kong (grandpa) when he's here.