Thermomix Menu Plans - 14th May

Hi everyone - better late than never with my menu plan for the week! Anyone else out there planning a menu for this week? Mine's pretty basic - a busy week so not a lot of time for fancy meals. (Thank goodness I have a Thermomix, huh!)

I hope all you Mums had a lovely Mother's Day on Sunday and were totally spoilt! My kids brought me breakfast in bed - tea, spelt toast and eggs (one of which had so much salt it had to be chucked!), and gluten free scone bread with pure maple syrup... and lots of homemade cards and pressies :) Very sweet. (I do think I'd better teach them how to make slow poached eggs and hollandaise sauce, though!)

Breakfast in bed - Mother's Day

For my mother, I made a rose and herb bouquet - pretty and useful. She loved it! My mother is very practical and money saving, and she nearly flipped when I walked in the door with it, as she thought I'd bought it from the florist and was thinking "$$$$"... She was relieved to know I'd bought the roses and herbs at the grocery store and put it together myself in a pretty jar. :D It smelt amazing. The herbs were basil, rosemary and thyme. (Don't worry, I bought her a present too - she nearly flipped about that too, because I accidentally left the price tag on - oops!)

Rose and herb bouquet

The next day I went and got the basil from her bouquet (before it wilted) and made her a basil-spinach-macadamia pesto and took it back to her. She was even more pleased! Maybe I should make garlic and rosemary pizza bianca with the rosemary, and potpourri with the roses... ha ha!

Basil Spinach Macadamia Pesto (dairy free)

For those of you on Facebook, Twitter and/or Instagram (@jowhitton), you may have seen that last week I made a different ice cream each day in honour of Miss C's 'Ice-Cream Menu'. (Despite the fact that it's more soup weather than ice cream weather!) It was a bit of a challenge, and I enjoyed coming up with new and different healthy 'ice creams' each day. I'm going to post what I made with the recipes and photos so you can try them out too. Miss C was very pleased with her menu plan idea... I'm just hoping she doesn't get the idea that any menu she comes up with, I have to make! Ha. (By the way - no, I didn't actually make 'Fride Ice Cream' or 'Beef Stroganoff with Ice Cream', but she was still pretty happy.) ;)

Miss C and her favourite food - ice cream!

(This one was lemon-lime and coconut cream -

dairy free, egg free & naturally sweetened.)

Here's my menu plan for this week - share yours by linking below! (Thermomix Menu Plans explains how.)

(tmx = cooked or prepared in the Thermomix)

Monday:
Tostadas - the quick & easy version: corn chips (instead of fried corn tortillas), then baby spinach, then nacho beef & beans (tmx), then dairy free sour cream (tmx), then sliced black olives. Everyone loves it and it takes hardly any time to make.

Tuesday:
Salmon fishcakes with rocket, capers & lime dressing and steamed veges - and a nature lesson for the kids on growing your own rocket! (Steaming the potatoes and veges in separate batches in the tmx varoma, making gf breadcrumbs in tmx, mixing mixure in tmx.)

Wednesday:
Split Roasted Chicken with Lemon Sauce, mashed potatoes, leafy green salad - mashed potatoes and lemon sauce prepared in tmx. (This was on Saturday's menu, but I ended up being out all day so it didn't get done - trying again!)

Thursday:
Mini meatloaves with homemade tomato sauce, steamed veges, green salad - meatloaves baked in oven in ramekins, with tomato sauce on top (made in tmx), veges steamed in tmx.

Friday:
Creole black eyed peas 'n' corn with gf cornbread muffins - soup made in tmx, muffins prepared in tmx and baked.

Saturday:
Healthy fried fish strips and homemade mayonnaise with baked sweet potatoes and green salad - fish coated in egg and cornmeal, pan fried in coconut oil; mayo made in tmx.

Sunday:
Baked marinated steak with onions, baked pumpkin, green salad

Creole black eyed beans 'n' Corn

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Have a great week! :)