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Do you have an airfryer? If you do, I’m sure you are like me and love yours as much as I do.

A while ago I was sent the Philips Airfryer XXL to test out and see what magic I could cook up. I’ve now had this amazing appliance for a few months and I wanted to share with you all the great recipes that I’ve been able to cook in the airfryer. I also recently received the Philips Baking Master Kit, an extra addition to trying out new things.

Philips Baking Master Kit for the Airfryer XXL

Cakes always come out perfect in the Philips Airfryer Cake Tin

What type of things have I been cooking?

Cakes – Chocolate, Vanilla, Chocolate Blueberry and Orange & Poppy Seed Pound Cake
Cupcakes – Chocolate and Vanilla
Roast Chicken and Salad
Steak and Vegetables
Sausages and Lamb Chops

Cakes

Cakes are super simple to cook in the airfryer.

I’ve made it even more easy and used packet mixes from the supermarket (You can make from scratch or use packet mixes)

Method

• Make the cake mixture
• Grease the cake tin with a little butter or oil
• Pour mixture into the tin
• Set the airfryer to cake setting, 180 degrees for 28 mins
• Leave to cook for the full 28 minutes and then wait till the airfryer beeps to tell you it is all done.
• Once all cooked, take out of the airfryer carefully as it will be extremely hot (make sure to have an oven mitt to take out without burning yourself)
• Leave for a bit and then take out of the tin to cool on a cooling rack.
• Once cool, ice and decorate or serve warm with ice cream.

Halloween cake cooked in the Philips Airfryer

Orange & Poppy Seed Pound Cake

Orange and Poppy Seed Pound Cake cooked in the Philips Airfryer

Cupcakes

Method

Mix cake mixture
Fill 2/3 full in a silicone mould
120 degrees for 22 minutes on the cake setting (Cake setting defaults to 180 so just press the temp icon and change it to suit)
Cook for the required time limit
Once cooked take out and allow to cool
The cupcakes will come out easily of the silicone moulds and you will not need butter or oil in them (So this is even better)

Chocolate cupcakes straight out of the airfyer

Steak and Vegetables

Cooking steak and vegetables in the airfryer is so quick and easy. I’ve been amazed at how well it cooks steak and in fact any meat, it seems to keep the meat so moist.

Ingredients

2 Scotch Steak Fillets
Olive Oil
3 Carrots
4 Potatoes
Chilli Flakes
Italian Herbs

Marinade

Soy Sauce and Honey – I added a tablespoon of honey and a good splash of soy.

Method

Cut up the carrots and potatoes roughly, small enough to cook quickly and be like bite-sized chip sizes.
Put carrots and potatoes in a bowl and add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Mix so that all vegetables have the oil on them.
Add a tablespoon of chilli flakes and a tablespoon of Italian herbs. Mix well together.
Add the vegetables to the airfryer basket.
Put airfryer on the M (Mixed Setting)
Set the temperature for 200 degrees and cook for 20 minutes. Make sure to stop at the 10-minute mark to stir and to make sure that they are cooking okay. If you don’t like your veggies crispy you might want to take them out at the 10-minute mark.
Once the veggies have completed the second 10 minutes of cooking time, take them out and keep warm.
Now make up the marinade if you haven’t done so already. Once the honey and soy marinade is complete put in the steaks so that they can be fully coated with the marinade.
Put the steaks in the airfryer basket
Set the airfryer to the meat preset
Set the temperature to 180 degrees and cook for 12 minutes. No need to stop to turn over, just let the meat cook.

Sausages and chops

Before I cooked the Steak and Vegetables, I did lamb chops and sausages for the kids’ dinner.

It was very simple and very quick. I just had to clean up the tray and basket before I cooked the steak and veggies.

Note: Before I cooked the sausages and chops, I sprayed the basket with a little bit of olive oil.

The following went into the airfryer:

2 chops
4 sausages

They were cooked at 200 degrees on the meat setting for 12 minutes.

Roast Chicken and Salad

I saw the roast chicken recipe video on the Philips website and wanted to give it a go. I did mine with a twist, I purchased an already marinated and stuffed chicken from the supermarket.

However, my chicken was a little bigger than it should have been so I was lucky that it fit okay into the airfryer. My chicken was 1.7kg and I was hoping to get a chicken that was 1.5kg at the biggest or maybe 1.2kg but the smallest was 1.7kg at the shops. It didn’t look that big, so I gave it a go.

Philips Airfryer Roast Chicken with Salad

Ingredients

1 whole chicken either marinated and stuffed by others or you can create your own.

Salad – I picked up a salad kit at the supermarket to make dinner even easier.

You can add vegetables, rice or other things to the chicken if you don’t want a salad.

Method

Spray the airfryer tray with some olive oil
Add the chicken to the airfryer tray
Set the airfryer to 180 degrees and choose the poultry setting
Cook for 60 minutes

I’ve previously made Homemade Chips and hubby wanted to give the airfryer a go and made Lamb chops & vegetables with rice.

Homemade airfryer chips - they were a huge hit. — Homemade airfryer chips – they were a huge hit.

Entertaining is so easy with the Philips Airfryer XXL. You will create some super yummy and tasty meals and impress your family and friends.

Another benefit is that the airfryer uses less oil and is a healthier way to cook, with up to 90% less fat. Plus, it is a super quick way to create some family favourites.

Find more recipes with the Philips Airfryer App, available at the App Store and on Google Play

You can also see further recipes on the Philips Chef website.

More Airfryer recipes and ideas on the blog soon!

Do you have an airfryer? What is the best recipe you have created in yours? Share so we can all try your delicious recipes.

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It was an exciting day today. The girls and I went to their new school, Blue Gum Montessori Children’s House for orientation. Lillian and Julia seemed to love it, they were excited by all the new things that is on offer. When we first got there they ran around and touched all the new things in the different areas. The school has different areas set up for learning, some areas are for sea shells, blocks, puzzles and the like. The teacher, Carmel, had hats ready to put their names on, if the girls go out they must wear their hats. Once they were named, Julia and Lillian walked over to the pegs where the other hats were and added theirs. It was very nice to be given a school hat for each girl.

Carmel showed the girls around, the toilets, the areas of the school, introduced them to the 2 goldfish. I asked if they had names and Lillian wanted to call them Goldie, however at home Julia said that their names were Gold Gold. Both girls have a folder for their artwork and a book to draw and create artwork. They were told that they could put 2 stickers on their book and folder. Both girls were very happy about this.

We were also shown the place where the girls will put their bags in the morning, and if their lunch needs to be in the fridge, must give it to staff as the fridge is in the back of the school. I got some paperwork and a book on the school, will fill out and drop off for the first day of school. Orientation lasted about half an hour and it was a very pleasant introduction to the school, it was very nice that they spent time with the girls one on one for the first day and that they let them paint some pictures and run around and get a feel for the place.

The girls were very taken with the sea shells and with the magnifying glass. They kept on going back to the shells and at one point, Julia had the magnifying glass she was holding it up to her eye. I could not help but laugh her eye looked huge and she looked so cute. She was looking at everything with the magnifying glass. She came up to Carmel and I and wanted to look at our eyes, she was amazed at how big things looked.

I think that this will be a great place for the girls to take their next steps towards school and learning. They seemed happy, excited and relaxed with the school and the teachers there. Carmel and Mary were there to greet us and to show us around. I have been told to bring the girls for a 9.30am start on their first day. Will be keen to see how they go with kids there and a whole day of learning next Monday. I am so excited for my little girls. I am also proud of how well behaved they were.

One thing that I am keen to see if pre-school helps, is independent play rather than relying on each other to play with. Currently they girls are very reliant on each other. They are very close and when one child decides not to play a game with the other, there is a melt down and the child that still wants to play the game tries to drag the other child back to play. This as you can imagine does not end well and there is a lot of tears and carry on. I have been trying to tell them when this does happen, that if you want to do the activity or task, you can do it yourself. You don’t need Julia/Lillian depending on who it was to play with you. The school fosters independence and the hope for me is that it will show the girls that they can happily work away at something if they are interested in it. Then if they want to play together, they can play together. We will see, but it will be interesting to see if the school has any influence over this issue. If you have twins or children close together, is this something that happens to you? What have you done to show your children it is o.k to do a task by themselves?

How has your child enjoyed pre-school or the start of big school (primary), did it go well? What are you giving them for lunch? I need to think about different choices that they get exposed to more foods. I suppose with 3 days at school this will be interesting regarding lunches and watching them develop. Let me know what has happened to you and your family.