Apologies for not updating for a while: I went home last weekend and picked up a stomach bug which left me on the sofa feeling sorry for myself (and lapping up the sympathy from my mother).
I then had 2 days back at uni before going up to my Aunt's to visit the new baby in the family (who is super duper cute and I just want to eat him up).
Anyway, before going home last weekend, I had a load of veg left in the fridge that needed using up, so I decided to make a veggie pasta bake. So, into Stanley went:
1 onion, 1 clove of garlic (chopped and sautéed for a few minutes)
then
1 (huge) courgette
2 carrots
2 peppers
Half a brocoli
1 tin of green lentils
1 carton of chopped tomatoes
Some seasoning: a stock cube and paprika
I chopped up all the veg and put it on to cook for 20 minutes, reverse speed 2, 100°, whilst putting my pasta on to cook.
I then got very hungry and very bored waiting for it to cook, and the idea of waiting for a pasta bake to cook sounded silly, so I simply had some of the vegetable concoction on some pasta, which was very tasty.
However, I was then left with loads of pasta and almost a TM bowl full of vegetable stuff, so I decided I'd make a vegetable and pasta soup. So, I added the pasta and some water and whizzed it all up until it was smooth like a soup (I think it was speed 8 for about 30 seconds).
The outcome was a huge quantity of thick soup, which I distributed into about 4 tupperware pots and a bowl for lunch the next day.
It tasted ummm... interesting. It was greatly improved with the addition of grated cheese.
But this kind of cooking is what I love about the Thermomix, you can just put everything in it and see what happens and if it doesn't work, at least the experiment was easy!
I'd love to stay and chat, but my cousin has just brought the baby over, so I'm going to coo at it for a while.
