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Drinks / Strawberry milkshake from syrup/cordial
« on: April 21, 2012, 11:54:19 am »
Can someone help me out with a recipe for a strawberry syrup? I've seen mention of there being a cordial recipe in EDC but don't have a copy.

My son's school sell milkshake every monday to raise funds for equipment but it's full of artificial colours/flavours/sweeteners which will send his behaviour haywire so I promised to find a replacement - but I need it by Monday and the supermarket only stocks horrible stuff.

I picked 2kg of strawberries because they were marked down and now I'm in a panic LOL

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Chit Chat / Bimby Toy
« on: December 20, 2011, 07:58:38 am »
just sold for £310 GBP  :o
plus postage

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THERMOMIX-TM-31-BIMBY-/170746570809?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Kitchen_Mixers&hash=item27c149e839#ht_819wt_1139

I wonder if the buyer got a surprise when it arrived  :-\

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Drinks / Ginger Beer Plant (SCOBY type)
« on: December 05, 2011, 03:55:44 pm »
Does anyone else here have a GBP? The old fashioned kind which has a scoby that looks like a bit of stewed apple (not brewers/bakers yeast ones)? And do you have any suggestions on recipes/techniques.?

Today I did it as follows: I sliced about an inch of ginger and put it in the bowl wiith a quartered lemon, half tsp of cream of tartar and blitzed on speed 9 for 10 seconds. I then poured in about 500g boiling water and turbo'd it once to clean the sides down. Then I added 200g of sugar and stirred for a minute before straining it into my brew jar and topping up to about 2 litres. (Obviously I'm waiting for it to cool before adding the scoby.)

can I simplify it further?


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Introduce Yourself / Greetings from the Diamond Isle
« on: October 05, 2011, 09:54:04 am »
I bought my tm31 a few months ago on ebay having lusted after one for years. I'm not a great cook but I do like to cook and was a prolific jam maker but over the last few years I've struggled, particularly with chopping, whisking and erm... remembering what I'm doing LOL. I pretty much gave up with cooking because I was burning the food, and myself, nearly every time I went in the kitchen, even making a cup of tea was hazardous and sometimes a meal would be burnt 3 times before I got it to the table:( Things got so bad that at for several months all I 'cooked' was toast and pasta. So Izzy is quite literally a life saver for us - fresh soups, steamed fish etc - what a star!

I'm looking forward to trying out more adventurous things and having a laugh about the stupid things I do in the kitchen when my CPU starts to malfunction - like the time poured the milk into the marmite jar instead of my cup of tea :D

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