I'm guilty of this too! You would think that I'd take extra care with a new appliance and a new recipe. But no - one of the first things I tried was cream puffs for our street Christmas party. I added the flour at the beginning and cooked it for 10 min, instead of adding it after the first 10 min. Surprisingly enough, they still worked. I filled them with custard, topped them with chocolate and sent them along to the party. Unfortunately, my son started vomiting an hour before the party and I missed the party. By all accounts, they were delicious and the plate came back empty...

Judy,

My recipe is very similar to yours - I use 50g of sugar(which I blitz before I add the other ingredients), 250g of strawberries, 1 MC of white rum and 400-500g of ice cubes. 

I am married with 2 primary school aged children. I enjoy cooking and cake decorating and am really happy with my new Thermo Chef.  I have had it for a few weeks now and can see myself getting really fat if I don't watch myself!  I have got some boxes of strawberries from the local farmers market and have made jam, smoothies, strawberry tart, not to mention some wicked daiquiri's. I've also stashed more strawberries in the freezer to make ice cream. We also picked blueberries from Mt Compass on Wednesday, so I've made blueberry ice cream and smoothies too. I've also made cream puffs (with custard), pavlova,shortbread, pouring custard on Christmas day, chocolate creme. I can't wait to adapt my chocolate pavlova recipe. See my problem? I have a serious sweet tooth.
I have also made some savoury dishes.  Ive made lasagne and a really yummy chicken in yoghurt dish that I told my son was butter chicken which he loved.

I've joined the forum because the book that came with my Thermo Chef is rather concise, and I understand that this is a friendly forum. I have also downloaded the Thermomix  and RoboGourmet apps for my iPad. My only problem is wrangling the iPad away from the rest of the family when I want to cook!