Caramelised Balsamic

Ingredients

250 g Balsamic vinegar
4 tablespoons of brown sugar
6 tablespoons of raw sugar. 

Method
Place all ingredients in TMX bowl and cook 10 minutes/ 100 / speed 3, CUP IN. 
Then cook 10 minutes/100/speed 3/ CUP OUT. 
Pour into sterile bottle and allow to cook before placing lid on. 

Notes
Can adjust with more sugar, taste first. 
I am soaking dried Turkish figs in this to add to a lentil and watercress salad. 

Inspiration for this recipe came from Community , cook book. I would recommend this to anyone who loves salads. I have adapted the recipe to TMX, and changed the ingredients slightlyI hesitated to publish this recipe as Helene at Super Kitchen Machine has one that is similar. The difference is that Helene's recipe uses honey, this one brown and raw sugar. 
There is a shortage of honey in Australia at the moment due to drought in many of the forests where the hives are placed. I tend therefore not to use honey in cooking. 

Chinese pickled red Cabbage and ginger

The dressing can be made in the TMX,  but the Cabbage is best cut by hand.   Love this dish as it keeps submerged in the dressing ,  in the fridge,   and can be served with hot or cold dishes.   I haven't come across anyone who hasn't liked this.  I have adapted this recipe from Belinda Jeffery's Collected recipes.
Need
750g RED cabbage,  1 small or 1/2 large.
3 teaspoons of salt
2 Tablespoons of fresh ginger, chopped
1  1/2  cups ( 375 mls. ) of rice vinegar
1  1/2 cups, (330g ) caster sugar
1/2 to 1 small red chilli seeded and thinly sliced, or 1/2 teaspoon of chilli flakes.
 Do
Shred cabbage as thinly as possible , by hand. 
Toss cabbage with salt and place in a colander over the sink with a plate on top.  Place a couple of tins on top to press the liquid from the cabbage.
Leave to drain for 3 hours , at room temperature.

While the cabbage is draining, Zap the ginger and chill  and sugar in the TMX.  Scrape down and Zap again. 
Add vinegar and mix on reverse until sugar is disolved.
Set aside.
Add to drained cabbage and store in plastic container in fridge for at least 8 hours.
Press cabbage under dressing while in fridge.

This has a nice sweet and sour zing.

Mock Rice with Italian dressing.

Thanks to Helene, people can reduce their carbs to a quarter if they substitute this Mock Rice for the real thing. I have experimented with the Mock Rice and have come up with this tasty salad. Warm or cold.

Serves 4/6 as a side dish.

2 cups of Mock rice.

270 Cauliflorets, zapped at speed5/4 seconds,produced 2 cups.
Steam in basket for 5 mins. (If 500mls of tap water is placed in bowl and set at Varoma, when it boils, place basket in and then steam for 5 mins. at speed 2) Set aside.

Wash out bowl, and place into bowl...
50g pitted black olives
45g. semi dried tomatoes
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 Dessertspoon of EVOO
Turbo until chopped fine but not paste. (2 presses of 2 seconds ?)

Using 2 forks fold this mix through 'rice' and add hand chopped parsley and S and P to taste.

Can be garnished with Roasted almonds, cashews. roasted red capsicum strips, 1/4 preserved artichokes.