Brownies

I like brownies but don't know what all the fuss is about. I much prefer my mum's good old fashioned chocolate slice. I made Quirky Cooking's gluten free brownies from her cookbook for my niece who has coeliac. They were good. As they didn't rise as much as I would have hoped, I used the leftover ganache from the cake husband is making for her brother and called it chocolate slice.

Chicken noodle soup

I woke up feeling low with a sore throat etc. All I felt like was Mum's chicken noodle soup. This is my thermie version of Mum's chicken noodle soup. It makes about 4 servings.

Ingredients
1 garlic clove
1 onion
1 carrot
Handful of baby spinach
Splash of olive oil (or your favourite cooking oil)
1/3 cob corn kernels
Any other vegetables you have (celery, broccoli etc)
750ml water
2T vegetable stock
1 skinless chicken breast chopped into small cubes
Handful of some sort of noodle - pasta, risoni, rice noodle etc

Method using risoni or pasta

1. Chop garlic, onion, carrot & other vegetables in mixing bowl for 4 seconds/Speed 3
2. Add oil, saute 100C/Reverse/Speed 1/2 minutes
3. Add water, vegetable stock, corn and chicken to mixing bowl. If you are using pasta or risoni add now too. Cook 100C/Reverse/Speed 1/16 minutes. Remove the measuring cup at about 4 minutes remaining to reduce the stock
4. Season as wanted
5. Serve on it's own or with bread

Method using rice noodle (gluten free)

1. Chop garlic, onion, carrot & other vegetables in mixing bowl for 4 seconds/Speed 3
2. Add oil, saute 100C/Reverse/Speed 1/2 minutes
3. Add water, vegetable stock, corn and chicken to mixing bowl. Cook 100C/Reverse/Speed 1/12 minutes
4. Add handful of rice noodle. Cook 100C/Reverse/Speed 1/4 minutes. I removed the measuring cup at this point to reduce the stock
5. Season as wanted

Heavenly chocolate cake (gluten free)

I was told to bring dessert to Easter celebrations. I went through the I love chocolate I love thermomix book and found the Gluten free Heavenly chocolate cake recipe. At first glance it looked terrifying but was surprisingly easily, looked spectacular and tasted divine. Everyone had seconds!