Forum Thermomix
Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: scyrene on June 26, 2009, 10:03:21 pm
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Hello,
My name's Barry, and I live in Lancashire in the north west of England. I read about the TM in a British food magazine called 'Delicious'. Heston Blumenthal included it as one of his top domestic gadgets. I've been meaning to get a food mixer/processor for a while, mostly because I bake a lot of bread but find the kneading uncomfortable. The brief description was enough to get me online and looking what the machine had to offer. Two weeks later, and I've got one on my countertop, and I reckon it's the best kitchen gadget I've ever had.
I've surfed this forum quite a lot already, and hope to be able to contribute recipes once I've tried a few. I'm cooking more from non-TM sources, adapting them, so hopefully some of what I'm doing will be new and inspritaional, but I'm looking forward to the advice and ideas from more seasoned users :)
Already done soups, risottos, bread, pizza, soy milk, smoothies and sorbet, and I'm on day 5 ;) I'm so glad there are resources like this forum for users - especially as the TM is a bit different to other food mixers/processors.
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welcome barry!!
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Welcome Barry - great to see you managed to find us. ;D ;D
Great work with all you've done so far - it really becomes addictive. ;)
Looking forward to some recipes - anything that you like, simple or difficult is always appreciated.
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Welcome Barry to a very helpful site. Enjoy your Thermomix. ;D
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Hi Barry.
Great to have you on board. It would be nice to have English recipes on the forum.
Have a great weekend.
Admin (a fellow Brit from SW UK) :-)
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Welcome.
I am at day 2 and lovin' it. Like you, I have had a go at adapting some family favourite. Some success, some tweaking necessary, but all in all, lots of fun :)
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Welcome Barry. Great going! :D
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Welcome Barry,
You sound like you have wasted no time in" getting īnto it". Good for you!!! I was a little scared of mine at first so took it easy, unlike my daughters who ploughed right in!!!
Trudy
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Hi Barry,
welcome! Nice to have another Brit aboard ;D What smoothies did you make, out of interest? Although I've made a couple, because they aren't a usual part of my diet I haven't got around to feeling comfortable making them yet. Hoping to eventually reach a place where they're a natural extra thing to whizz together as part of breakfast ;D
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Hi Barry, nice to have another man on board and looking forward to any recipes you post on the forum. You won't regret your quick decision to buy the TMX.
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Sorry for not replying sooner - I really hadn't expected anyone to reply to my introduction :-\ Thanks for all the welcomes and nice comments so far!
CarolineW, the smoothies weren't to a recipe as such - I just used what I had to hand (pineapple, peaches, limes, strawberries - and the occasional dash of Pimm's ;) ). I must try out my favourite smoothie sometime though, which is banana, honey, yoghurt, oats and orange juice (really satisfying liquid breakfast). Actually, I'm making lots more sorbets (the recipes in the TM31 cookbook, using whatever fruit I can get) than smoothies - they last longer, though still only a day or so, they're so nice :)
I like to try recipes at least 3 times before I share them, so it might be a little while before I post any of my own, but I've started trying other people's here, so I'll comment on those for now.
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wereabouts in Lancs are you Barry? Im orginally from Liverpool but near Lancs! We are coming back for Xmas, might come a knocking at your door to borrow your thermo!! I dont know how im going to cope without it for 4 weeks!
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wereabouts in Lancs are you Barry? Im orginally from Liverpool but near Lancs! We are coming back for Xmas, might come a knocking at your door to borrow your thermo!! I dont know how im going to cope without it for 4 weeks!
Bring it with you ;D Are you coming anywhere near London at all?
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Id love to bring it with me but with 2 kids and hand luggage for them to cope with I think I would be struggling carting TM along! Maybe I'll leave one of the kids at home!
I dont think we will be coming near London, knowing the good old British winter I dont think we will be moving too far from the fireplace! Maybe just to NEXT for the sales after Xmas!!
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Welcome Barry!
Congratulations on your TM :)
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Thanks again to everyone - I've been away a lot the past few weeks, but hope to get back into things soon. I must just say, I baked cupcakes for a hundred people for my friend's partner's birthday, and the TM did all the batter and icing, and worked heroically (I was a bit frazzled after a dozen batches, though!) - couldn't have managed without it! :)
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Bet you are all cupcaked out Barry ;) ;) ;) I wouldn't want to look at another cupcake for a long time if I had to make that many. Well done, bet they went down well.
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Hi Barry,
Great job on the cupcakes. Any chance of you posting the recipe you used, I'm assuming it's well and truly tested now??
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From one Newbie to another. Hello & Welcome Barry.
I was born in St. Helens in Lancs before I emigrated here with my family when I was 8. Still have some vivid memories though, all good of course being so young. ;D
Lots of good info on here which should help a lot.
Julie.
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Ah, okay, I'll post the cupcake recipes (wasn't just one!) and frostings in the appropriate area of the forum! And once again, good to hear from expats (and everyone else!) :)
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Will look forward to trying those recipes. Maybe not quite so many batches though. ;D