Dbee Robinson Artist - The Fat Struggling Menopausal Artist

Yet again my amazing kitchen duo has created the best cake ever leaving me time to trial a few butterflies on rice paper. Getting the paint consistency just right is always difficult so it's always best to do a few trial pieces first. Too thin and the paint bleeds into the paper, too thick and it causes issues later when backing the painting. All rice paper paintings require backing prior to framing as the paper is so thin. Click here ' Backing a rice paper painting ' to view an epic fail when backing a painting either too full of paint, damaged, etc. Anyway back to the best cake ever. I found a recipe online and adjusted it for my family's taste and to cook it in my new Ninja. Citrus Meringue cake using a Thermomix (TM5)  and baking in the Ninja smart lid (NSL) Note- Minutes (m) / Degrees (d) / Seconds (s) / speed (sp)  To save washing up, grind the orange and lemon peel for the cake in the TM5 first. 240g sugar and the peel from 1 lemon and 1 orange. Grind - sp9 / 8s ...

  Today's Smartlid Ninja dinner is a Vegetable coconut curry. (recipe below) I forgot to get it started early to use the slow cook function but as I have made this in a pressure cooker many, many times before, speedy pressure cooking it will have to be.  However pretty worried my calculations are incorrect as I couldn't find a Ninja recipe anywhere, well until I started writing today's blog whilst it cooks in the kitchen and there it was, as soon as I googled it, a vegetable stew but in another type of pressure cooker. Their time states 30 mins, but I have set mine to 15mins at low pressure with a delayed-release. To be honest I have no idea why I even chose low pressure or delayed-release?? It's just dragging out the pain wondering if the dam curry is going to be cooked in time. Only time will tell and possibly bite me on the bottom for not getting it sorted sooner as, thanks to Covid, Hubby comes home to dinner every day. Not because his canteen is closed, but because...