Just made a batch of these - so delicious! Thank you .

Thanks so much for the advice .

In case anybody else is in a similar situation, I'll report back ... I emailed my problem through to TMX central and they confirmed that I needed to send my machine in. They warned that it would involve courier charges each way and a minimum $33 for a quote, then sent me packing instructions and asked me to let them know when my TMX was ready for collection.

A lovely friend who is a consultant was kind enough to drop off an original box with foam padding, so that was simple.

The courier picked up on a Friday, I had a call from TMX on the Wednesday to say that I needed a new motor and a new bowl base. I gave the go ahead and my credit card number immediately to authorise a $289 repair, and my machine was delivered back on the Thursday (actually Friday as I missed the first delivery  ) .

It's fabulous to have my TMX working smoothly again - I hadn't realised how noisy it has been!

Unfortunately I now have to call and order a replacement top tray for my Varoma, but I am now fully confident that TMX will be very helpful about it!

Really, I couldn't have asked for better service .

Made this tonight with half beef half chicken and it was FABULOUS! Thank you!  I bought 500gm each of the chicken and beef mince so have another batch of meatballs in the freezer for a busy day.

I made this last night, doubling the meatball mixture (I couldn't fit it all in the Varoma, so will make a couple of hamburger patties today) and using 200gm fresh tomatoes, so the sauce was a bit yellow but still delicious.

We all enjoyed it - thank you! Now I'm off to find this fabled garlic rice... 

I would have preferred to save the money on my consultant! I LIKE my consultant, but I knew I wanted a TMX before I had a demo, and I only needed help when I had a blade break under warranty which I could have managed via head office. At $1000 I could afford to replace mine when it dies (and now that it's out of warranty, it's starting to give me more error messages ) and still feel I was getting good value out of it.

Knowing Vorwerk prevent TMX being sold in Australia for a reasonable price because they want to keep their demo sales model going really irritates me - I'd love my mother and sister to be able to afford one too!

Thanks so much !

I just made this for afternoon tea and it was scrumptious! Thank you!

I'm going to make into muffins to take to our preschool brunch tomorrow  . I also used our apple slinkie , and used 3 large-ish apples to up the fruit content .

Thanks, Judy! I'll package it up for freezing.