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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: judydawn on February 21, 2009, 09:22:11 am
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Today I posted my first recipe and made some comments on a few that I have tried from this site. I must say, because they are tried and true, I am more impressed with them than those in theThermomix recipe books I have. So many recipes are disappointing and need tweaking which is a waste of time and money as far as I am concerned. What we need are more recipes from normal, everyday cooks who are smart enough to convert their favourite recipes (I have trouble doing that unfortunately) or can come up with new ideas.
I have had mine for about 6 months now. My daughter went to a party and kept saying 'Mum would love this machine" so she had a party and 3 were sold on the night. I find it great for cakes and desserts (although we don't eat a lot of high calorie foods) but am disappointed with main meals. Still, I wouldn't give it back for the world as it is such a clever little machine which just needs tastier recipes to try in it.
There are only the 2 of us in this house so I find I only need to cook 3 or 4 times a week and eat leftovers or go out for meals the rest of the time. My husband has MS so he doesn't eat a lot at the best of times and most of the desserts I have to eat on my own which is not good for the waistline. Mum doesn't mind me taking bits and pieces around to her to try.
I love this site and spent hours on it before actually committing fingers to keyboard and joining you all. Looking forward to finding many interesting recipes in the future, thanks everyone. Regards Judy
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welcome judy!!!
funnily enough i often find that when i make my own recipes a second time they don't work as well LOL i guess that's why the womens weekly triple test their recipes lol!!!
some of our fave recipes from the book are the pasta fagiole recipe and the pasta recipe that has the tomato sauce with salami in it.
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Judy. Hi. Great to have you on board. Thanks for the positive comments about this forum. Really nice to hear your kind words.
Have a great time here and with your new friends.
Admin
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Hi Judy
Welcome to the forum. I agree it is really helpful. When I am converting recipes I look in the books for my guidance and go from there. I did my first Varoma meal last night and it really wasn't the best. I'm pretty sure the mistakes were mine and not the recipe or machine. Second time lucky.
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Hi Judy, nice to meet you :)
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Hi Judy, welcome to another South Australian!
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Hi Judy, welcome to the forum.
Sorry to hear about your husband's health issues.
It would be great if you make any of the dishes and they do or don't work to post and let us know too. It really is important that we get the best out of our forum. We don't want people wasting time or money.
Good luck.
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Hi Judy,
Welcome to another South Aussie!!!!! Enjoy this forum, I have found it such a help, still haven''t mastered the varoma though!!!
Trudy
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Join the rest of us Trudy as far as the varoma is concerned. I have only done Chicken and Cashews Pge 107 Everyday Cookbook but it was lacking taste and I had to cook the vegies for 20 minutes (there are heaps of them in that varoma tray!) as I don't like my vegies too crunchy. Will do it again one day but will use some black bean or oyster sauce to add a bit of oomph to the sauce - far too bland as it is. Tend to shy away from the varoma but this is never going to help me master it.
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do you like wontons judy? one of the other karens here in canberra did a delicious recipe for them for the varoma (which is virtually the only time i've used it too lol)
http://brazen20au.blogspot.com/2008/10/varoma-adventure.html
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If they are the steamed wontons you are referring to Karen, I only printed out that recipe yesterday and asked DH if he would eat them and he said yes so I will give them a go sometime next week. Fridge is still full from yesterday's cooking day so I'm having a rest in the kitchen until that is all eaten. Not so easy for you younger mums with children or growing teenagers - I know how much they eat when we have the grandchildren staying!
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I really like the varoma bread (recipe in the bread section). It looks a bit anemic, but it's very soft and moist. The Varoma Chicken Chilli dumplings are sooooo nice!
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Thanks Cathy but what book are those 2 recipes in, can't find them. I don't seem to have a specific recipe book for the varoma but I do have 'Full Steam Ahead' and they don't appear to be in there.
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Both of those recipes are on the forum - dumplings under mains, bread under breads.
As for the main recipes in the cookbooks - I too found them to be slightly bland when i first started using my TM but now after 6 months I am enjoying the taste of fresh food and raw ingredients.
Unfortunatly our diet before TM was full of artificial flavours and flavour enhancers. A result of this diet was a change in taste perception to the point that we expect all food to be bursting with strong flavours. Unfortunately most raw ingredients cant compete with the artificial ones which makes us think they are bland.
After months of making all our food from raw ingredients using TM and completely eliminating MSG, flavours and other enhancers, our taste has adjusted and we now enjoy the taste of fresh food.
The great thing about TM is that you can always adjust a recipe to suit your tastes. Adding herbs, garlic, ginger will add more flavour and you can adjust the amount.
Not every recipe is going to suit everyones taste - Im not a big curry person so havent even tried those recipes yet, but i love the stirfrys - chicken and cashew nut (i add a clove of garlic and a teaspoon of stock concentrate to the sauce) and the sweet and sour pork is excellent as it is. I dont make meat balls just use stirfry strips. I find the times to be reasonable accurate (give or take 5 min) as stirfrys traditionally have crispy vegies and I enjoy them that way.
Maybe we can add a Tweeking section where people can add suggestions to improve recipes in the books. This would make it easier for the producers to change them when they edit and republish in the future.
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Thanks Riv Mum for your comments and yes you are probably right. I've done the sweet & sour meatballs w/vegies too and although this is a dish we would probably only have once a year, I have marked it with 'do exactly as is' but next time i would only do 1/2 qty for the 2 of us so that we don't have leftovers. I love curries but wasn't at all happy with fast chicken curry pge 96. Went to a cooking demo and they had Nico Moretti from W.A. there so when it gets cooler I will try his recipe for Thai chilli chicken and basil from the pamphlet handed out that night. I bought his recipe book but there isn't that much in there for the TMX although my daughter has cooked his coconut cake out of her copy many, many times and everyone wanted the recipe.
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Hi Judydawn,
You should enjoy Nico's Thai Chilli Chicken. I have made it several times and it always comes out well. Like you we don't like bland food. I am waiting for the English Indian cookbook to comeout as Indian food is a favourite of ours.
Trudy
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Well, it has been almost a month since I got interested in this site which in turn motivated me to start using my TMX a lot more and to stop being frightened of failures. I have done 16 new recipes in this time, mostly off the forum which shows just how useful this site is. I have submitted a few recipes too, not over confident here but I think todays beef and beer casserole will be a winner. This site is now such a big part of my life and sometimes I realise I am the only one on it and everyone else is out enjoying themselves - such a forum tragic I have become but hey, I am just loving it to bits and I promise I will get a life soon!!! I'd just like to thank everyone for their support and comments - I feel as if you are indeed my 'new friends'.
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That's great Judy! I'm going crazy waiting for my turn with a TM lol :D
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Ayla, I know how you feel. I found this site a small time before I got my TMX. I was actually boring everyone with my count down until I got it. It was so hard reading all about it and not having one.
Judydawn, I agree re this site. I have learned so much from it and people are very helpful.
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you guys ARE the people!
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Trudy, you were right - OMG! Nico's Thai Chilli Chicken was to die for!!! I am going to post it in mains so that everyone can try it.
Mine tasted even better than the sample they gave us during his visit to one of Adelaide's cooking classes - that was afterall, only a spoonful. Why did it take me so long to get around to cooking this one!
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Well, it has been almost a month since I got interested in this site which in turn motivated me to start using my TMX a lot more and to stop being frightened of failures. I have done 16 new recipes in this time, mostly off the forum which shows just how useful this site is. I have submitted a few recipes too, not over confident here but I think todays beef and beer casserole will be a winner. This site is now such a big part of my life and sometimes I realise I am the only one on it and everyone else is out enjoying themselves - such a forum tragic I have become but hey, I am just loving it to bits and I promise I will get a life soon!!! I'd just like to thank everyone for their support and comments - I feel as if you are indeed my 'new friends'.
It is great to have people willing to get so involved. When I started on here there had been about 70 topics and 80 posts - so almost no replies. The majority of topics were recipes from brazen, Tenina and me that had been copied (mistakes and all - LOL).
Now, another 500 topics and 3000 posts shows that people are willing to try the recipes and make comments. It is great to see people involved (other than brazen and me ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;D ;D ). In fact it has been a real pleasure to see all the activity without me being involved. Some poor innocents still think this is my forum ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) !!!!
Thanks for getting involved. :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Ayla, I know how you feel. I found this site a small time before I got my TMX. I was actually boring everyone with my count down until I got it. It was so hard reading all about it and not having one.
Judydawn, I agree re this site. I have learned so much from it and people are very helpful.
cookie - you have been very helpful too !!! There are so many people who look at the forum - but never post. We need more like you to put in tuppence worth.
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Why did it take me so long to get around to cooking this one!
mainly because there are so many recipes to try and not enough time in which to eat them.
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Yes, that plus the fact I somehow thought I'd wait for the cooler weather to do something like that. Cooking and hot weather do not go hand in hand but it looks as if the worst has passed and we can now really get stuck into our cooking. I have even started cooking 1/2 recipes so that I don't have any leftovers and can therefore try out more recipes. So much to do and only about 20 years left to do it in!!!
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Thanks for the kind words Thermomixer. If we all support the forum the better it will be. Do we have a blushing smilie?