Forum Thermomix
Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: leesmac78 on August 19, 2011, 12:33:06 pm
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Guess what everyone??? It arrived. Thank you all so much for you care and support of these past few trying weeks. I am so excited. I will post photos and my recipes as I create them.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone,
Lee :) ;D
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That is bonza news Lee! What great timing. Have fun cooking up a storm over the weekend!!! :)
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Great news Lee,happy cooking. ;D
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Wow thats great ;D. Guess we wont hear from you for a few day cause you will be too busy cooking lol. Have lots of fun
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Happy cooking (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-eatdrink061.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)
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I can feel the excitement over the 1000's of miles, and hope you don't leave us in the lurch. Keep us informed of what is going on in your kitchen :D
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Oh what a weekend you guys are going to have - so happy for you that it arrived today. Look forward to reading what you have cooked over the weekend.
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Congratulations to the happy household. Have a great weekend with your new tmx.
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I have photos which I will post of my own unpacking party :( Wished you could all have been in Frankfurt and I would gladly have hosted. By the way, so far and egg salad and bread has been baked. But guess who cooked them - not me but ED! Now, he is hogging the cook books. Ed told me to check out the forum instead. Hmmmf! DH is so proud of his decision to purchase a TMX. He is already planning breakfast! Hmmmmmmm ;)
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It's here, it's here!!! yay yay - have a fantastic weekend getting to know your new family member :D
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oh dear, maybe the family should have grown by 2 lol. I dream of another in my kitchen :-))
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Just the beginning, you are in for a deliously busy weekend,have fun.
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Lee, you do make me laugh with your postings. Poor you, hope Ed lets you have a turn today to make something you have chosen. Sounds like you've worked out how to use your machine though and that is the main thing. Now, what's on the menu for today?
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I have photos which I will post of my own unpacking party :( Wished you could all have been in Frankfurt and I would gladly have hosted. By the way, so far and egg salad and bread has been baked. But guess who cooked them - not me but ED! Now, he is hogging the cook books. Ed told me to check out the forum instead. Hmmmf! DH is so proud of his decision to purchase a TMX. He is already planning breakfast! Hmmmmmmm ;)
Sounds like you'll have to organise a TMX cooking roster :D
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Kicked (almost literally!) Ed out bed early as my tummy was rumbling for fresh bread. I had a sneaky plan in mind. I thought if I could get him Thermomixing early this morning, then he would leave me to my own devices so I could play with it for the rest of the day. The bread is in the oven and smells delicious.
Bless him, he is now on the telephone telling this mother and sister all about his new toy. He has sent photos of his new creations via email and he is like a boy with a new toy. Lucky I am the patient one in the family!!!
Anyone else had problems with their husbands cooking TOO much??? Has this EVER happened to ANYONE?
Lee xoxox ;D
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Not in this household Lee, I do everything for my DH. Don't know how I would handle a DH in my kitchen, it is my domain ;)
I sometimes envy those with a DH who will cook the odd meal or take them a coffee in bed though.
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oh poor Lee, You so much want to get your hands on your TM but Ed wont let you :(. My DH has never even touched my TM , Im too scared he will break it lol)
Like Judy I do everything for my DH as well although occasionally he will cook tea but non-TM style or BBQ style.
At least Ed is taking interest in the TM. I think it is great that he wants to use it. Im sure you will get your chance sooner or later.
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I am very fierce about my kitchen, and won't let my husband in !! You know what it's like, the "Boys toys" phenomenon, how dh gets completely obsessed with something, to the point of becoming boring. The last episode in our house was with the bl***y chickens. Dh bought a secondhand incubator, picked a breed and a farmer from which we could buy the eggs, put 20 eggs in the incubator, and went away to work for 2 weeks, so kept hassling me to "check the temperature" in the incubator ....15 times a day.
We were expecting 5 little chicks......we had 15 !! Very cute, a lovely breed ( coucou de Rennes)
For some reason, we had a lot more cockerels than hens, so they will be fattened up for the freezer. DH is now obsessed about making sure they put on the "right kind of fat".
That is why, Lee, I'm not letting him anywhere near MY thermomix when it arrives. he'll be arguing whether the pastry needs 7 or 8 seconds to be mixed. I love him to bits, though..
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Anyone else had problems with their husbands cooking TOO much??? Has this EVER happened to ANYONE?
HAHAHA.......(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sad056.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)......no man in this house cooks......unless you class turning a snag or a steak on the barbie as cooking!
But guess who cooked them - not me but ED! Now, he is hogging the cook books. Ed told me to check out the forum instead. Hmmmf! DH is so proud of his decision to purchase a TMX. He is already planning breakfast! Hmmmmmmm ;)
LOL....I told you Ed was going to do that :P
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My DH can't boil an egg,just not interested in cooking and would live on sandwiches if I'm not around . :-))
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My DH does most of the day to day cooking but only because he has ended up with the role of stay at home Dad because my work hours are looooong and I travel a lot. He uses the TMX but it's only out of necessity, I'm the one who loves to cook and the little time I get at home is dominated by cooking - he's very happy to hand over the duty when I'm around and I'm more than willing to accept it. My dream is to be a stay at home Mum but given my kids are now 16 and 11 I guess I've missed my chance :-[
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My DH cooks every Sunday night. His standard fortnightly rotation is baked beans and fried bacon on toast and steak sandwiches. It is amazing how good things taste if you don't have to cook them. :P ;D
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My DH cooks every Sunday night. It is amazing how good things taste if you don't have to cook them. :P ;D
How true that is. :D :D
My DH cooks Tue & Thur and it's usually a roast on Tuesday and something ( steak, grilled chicken, chops etc) and chips on Thursday. I would happily give up the chips for a salad but am outvoted. ;) ;) I just appreciate a meal being ready when I walk in at 6.30pm
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Ed is/was a fabulous cook even before our new addition. He is one of those people that just bung things together willy nilly and they taste great. We have literally thousands of cookbooks from Margaret Fulton to Larousse Gastronomique. Yet he is the Doctor and the scientist. I, on the other hand am the creative, musical one in the family yet I read recipes and weigh everything to the gram. I innovate naturally but when I try something new I follow it to the letter.
I have had the most wonderful first day with my Thermobaby (once I sent Ed out into the garden and out of the way). As you know, I am living in Germany and need to practise by language skills, I have tried not to read my downloaded English instructions and suffer through the Deutsch. Thanks to this most amazing forum, I did study up quite a bit before (as you all know from my thousands of posts over the past few weeks).
The menu of the today has been:
Traditional Chopped Chicken Liver Pate (recipe posted with photograph)
Möhreneintopf (recipe from Jeden Tag genießen, the book that comes with TM31 here in Germany)
This is a soup made of carrots, potatoes, parsley which was absolutely delicious. Probably better for my Australian friends who are in the midst of a cold snap, rather than us in the northern hemisphere who are sunning ourselves during the last few days before Fall (Autumn) kicks in.
An all in one Mushroom Risotto with Varoma Broccoli and Salmon
Hollandaise Sauce
Vanilla Ice Cream
What a fabulous day! I cooked and self cleaned and self dried (on :-: ^^) until I had almost run out of tea towels! I wish I was hungry again. Ed will surely be up making bread in the morning. I am making Pizzas for lunch and dinner.... any suggestions?
One last funny thing. Ed heard me talking in the kitchen from the garden numerous times throughout the day. He came in from time to time so see who I was talking to. I told him no one but really I was talking to the laptop, hoping you'd all hear me - to answer my questions, laugh at me when I forgot to put MC on, help me mop up a little mess here and there but see me whistling a happy tune, as I whiled away the day.
xoxox ;D
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It's great to hear that you finally got your hands on the TM,Lee. ;) Wow what a successful day you've had for your first day.I also cook by weighing and measuring ingredients,if I chucked things in haphazardly it would taste bloody awful :D :D Looking forward to hearing how your pizza making goes.We like our pizza fairly plain with just fresh tomato,mozzarella and basil.
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For someone who didn't have a delivery demo Lee, you have done so well. You are going to have to have friends over to help you eat some of the spoils if you keep cooking at that rate.
Converted Jamie Oliver recipe here (http://www.whyisthereair.com/?p=793) seems popular on the forum.
Favourite pizza toppings is a thread on the forum here (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2026.0)
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wow sounds like its all going wonderfully and love that you send DH out into the garden to give you and 'thermiebaby' time alone lol!! It will end up that you will need some kind of roster for you both to be able to use the thermomix!! Glad to hear tis all going well :) :)
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yes happy times - great to hear of the fun you are having. when you make the pizza dough I suggest blitzing 2 garlic cloves and rosemary to add to the dough. Here are (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2026.0) some suggestions for pizza toppings.
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The recipe for the pizza in the German TMX book is absolutely the most delicious pizza I have ever eaten. I am sure the base is the same as the one in the Australian EDC. I made a margarita pizza but threw in a green capsicum for fun. Yum yum! I wish I was hungry again... Does everyone on here put on tonnes of weight when TMX moved in?
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Does everyone on here put on tonnes of weight when TMX moved in?
aagh yes, I'm a fatty lumpkin now :'( :'( :'(
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I really think that making things yourself really is a morale booster, and it's nice to hear those you love say how nice the food you have made is. I can imagine how easy it will be for me to put on themomix" pounds when the machine arrives. I'm hoping the kids will eat everything befor i can get to it ...
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I really think that making things yourself really is a morale booster, and it's nice to hear those you love say how nice the food you have made is. I can imagine how easy it will be for me to put on themomix" pounds when the machine arrives. I'm hoping the kids will eat everything befor i can get to it ...
Thank you. The food that comes out of my Thermosweetie is absolutely delicious. I think I have a little extra confidence thanks to everyone on this website. I downloaded the instruction manual to famliarise myself with the machine and all its buttons and dials. And then reading the recipes on here, I could really visualise "how" to do it. So as soon as I unpacked it, I really felt confident to "have a go". Lucky, as there are no unpacking parties here in Germany so one has little choice other than to be completely resoruceful and independent.
I have been a Thermomix owner for just over 48 hours and I have made recipes from this website, from the cookbook and even innovated and invented a couple. You are going to have a ball!!
I am so excited for you. I know how agonising the wait is.
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Lee and Ed - great to hear all your feedback, comments and recipes! I can't believe how quickly you have got in there and are up and running with both new and adapted recipes. Loving hearing about your TMX and looking forward to hearing how everything goes. It does sound a bit as though you are going to need one TMX each, though!
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What a wonderful idea! Can you send a private post to my DH, edmundkostewicz and tell him??? ;D
I made JudyDawn's Curried Sausages for dinner tonight. How sensational are they??? Pity it is 32 degrees here in Frankfurt today but a good curry is always in order. I cannot believe how versatile this machine is??? It seriously does everything. And on a hot day, not turning the oven on is certainly a winner in my book! And that rice - wowwee!!! I have a hideously expensive automatic Tefal rice cooker that I once thought was the Bee's Knees, didn't even give it a thought! And Varoma cooked sausages, OMG OMG!!!!!! Can you tell that I am happy with my Thermolovie????????? ;D
Because of the weather, Ed is making berry ice cream from our German TMX book (Jeden Tag genießen) that I have. We may need to purchase another book very soon, as the print is wearing out. No, not really!! But it will make bed time reading easier if we simply have two books, rather than one. Too hot for cuddles here at the moment!!!
Two books! Only two books??? Who am I kidding!!! LOL
xxxx
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Sounds like you may possibly be in love Lee. I bet you go to bed and dream about the TM lol. It's great to read what you have been up too and obviously you are really enjoying being a TM owner. Keep having fun. And keep posting recipes for us all.
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Oh Lee, you are a character :D :D Always look forward to your postings.