Where for art thou, Thelma?

We went on holidays! Sorry for the abrupt transmission ceasing but I didn't really want to advertise that we were away. Because I'm not that dumbarse to invite people to come into my house.

So we went away to the beautiful Second Valley here in South Australia. We rented a cottage that had 3 bedrooms, a kitchen, a small lounge, a toilet and bathroom and that was it. It was walking distance to the beach, and a little shop that sold some bare necessities. We took Thelma with us and made lunch salads, and dinner each night.

Some learnings:

• mince smells foul when it's off as we discovered on the first night
• home blended taco mix works really well in the Thermomix
• if the sauce is too thin when making any dish where you can fish the meat out of the bowl, add a forkfull or two of plain flour, whiz for 15 seconds on speed 4 and voila! a thicker sauce!
• pack vege stock, plain flour, an onion or two, some veges and fruit and a beetroot and you can make a lot of meals while you're away!
• buy meat while you're in the area rather than trying to take it with you