Thermomix has arrived!

Yeah!!!! The Thermomix arrived tonight! It was very exciting. Like getting a new car (and given I can get a car for the price of the machine I guess that makes sense).

Our lovely consultant Cassandra talked us through the use of the machine, cleaning and we made our first product - the basic vegetable concentrate.

Basic vegetable concentrate

How easy was that! The hardest thing was buying the ingredients at our local supermarket on a hot summer afternoon. 

All the ingredients were chopped roughly by hand, thrown in to the Thermomix to be chopped some more, cooked then pulverised. 

We don't add salt to anything so were reluctant to add any to the concentrate. In the end we added a bit to assist the preservation of the product. With salt it will last 3 months in the fridge in an air tight jar. I should add a late note here - the recipes we were using did not require the vegetable concentrate/stock. As I didn't add salt, I froze the concentrate in ice cube trays (each ice cube equaled 1 tablespoon) and now have it stored in the freezer.

The parsley was added last and didn't want to be involved in the pre-cook chop. So we just cooked it all and then blasted it with the fastest chopping available. That worked! Our learning thing - parsley should be the first thing to go in.

So now we are ready to go forth and cook with our Thermomix.