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« on: December 22, 2008, 02:05:49 am »
Great idea Amanda, thanks. My Dad always used to say 'we can choose our friends but not our relations.' I'm sure that after a glass of wine or bubbly, I won't care too much about how nasty she is. I am determined to simply say, "It's Christmas, let's try and be nice and not say nasty things, just for today." (May need more than one glass of that bubbly!!!)  ) )
37457
« on: December 21, 2008, 08:54:45 am »
Thermomix has had a rest today, I've only made milk shakes for the family. I am seriously wondering how I managed without this machine. I haven't done a lot of varoma cooking yet, but find it so good for so many things.
37458
« on: December 21, 2008, 08:46:46 am »
It certainly is a 'valuable tool'. I have learned so much from this forum and found some wonderful recipes. It is hard to believe I was member number 90 and I joined just over a month ago and now membership is past 200. I have given this forum name to a couple of people from other forums who own Thermomixes. Hopefully they find it as helpful as I do. 
37459
« on: December 20, 2008, 06:26:34 am »
This I will definitely be making. Our next door neighbours brought in heaps of christmas cakes and fruit mince pies and little plum puddings for us. The wife works at the manufacturers of these and they thought we may like them. As we're not really into bought cakes etc I will be able to make these puddings from some of the cake. Thanks.
37460
« on: December 20, 2008, 06:20:06 am »
Today I've made some orange biscuits and am about to make some pastry to make fruit mince pies.
37461
« on: December 19, 2008, 08:27:25 am »
The chocolate brownies were ever so delicious. Very rich, but still nice. They had the usual brownie type top, (hard to cut without cracking it into lots of pieces), but the centre is so smooth and rich. Would make a lovely sweet as well, with cream or icecream, or even both.
37462
« on: December 19, 2008, 08:24:37 am »
I think I will have to make this-especially if it has a soft texture as I love soft icecream. It looks nice and easy too. Thanks for another recipe to try.
37463
« on: December 18, 2008, 03:49:57 am »
Oh-h-h-h-h!
37464
« on: December 18, 2008, 03:48:54 am »
I've just made the Chocolate Brownies from the Gluten free book. The raw mixture was oh so nice. Hopefully the baked version will be just as good. I've also used the thermomix to speed up the making of some mini plum puddings. It made the job so much quicker. Usually the crumbling of the cake and melting chocolate is time consuming. Not this year, I was really speedy. Might even do another batch to take out tonight-everyone will think I've spent ages making them! 
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« on: December 18, 2008, 01:37:49 am »
I think that was a wise thing to do Amanda. We did a similar thing 10 years ago for our daughter, though it wasn't Europe. Saves everyone a lot of worry and daughters being put into situations that they may or may not be ready to handle.
37466
« on: December 17, 2008, 01:29:50 am »
Sure do Karen. My brother arrives from Canberra on Saturday. He thought he would come home for a week to see if he can get some hot weather. He lives at Bungendore and works in the tax office over there. We spent some time in your lovely capital a couple of months ago.
So let's see who gets to drink hot chocolate at Christmas.(Personally I think I prefer a cold wine-help to cope with batty ma in law).
A thought: I'll give her some very sweet hot chocolate-might improve her outlook on life!
37467
« on: December 17, 2008, 01:22:08 am »
That must have been wonderful Amanda. 
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« on: December 16, 2008, 05:20:29 am »
My first attempt was making the vegetable stock. I now will not use any other type of stock, I really love it and vegetarian friends are happy to eat my cooking.
Let us know what you make. That is if you have time when the Thermomix arrives, I'm sure you'll be very busy.
Happy Thermomixing!
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« on: December 16, 2008, 05:17:11 am »
Thanks for that Dean. I appreciate the way you have listed the ingredients per person. For drinks it makes it so much easier. Maybe we'll have a cold Christmas and we can sit around drinking hot chocolate. I could even put some of my vanilla vodka/essence in it. Probably by then it will be straight vodka; blow the vanilla bit. 
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« on: December 16, 2008, 05:11:37 am »
Yes indeed, 5 of us have said where we are from! Come on West Aussies.
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