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« on: September 05, 2011, 05:35:20 pm »
No, I'm not in advertising, I'm a teacher ! I'm just trying to make butter, 28 seconds to go. I can't imagine how it's going to work. There goes the beep beep. Will postbyou later ..
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« on: September 04, 2011, 08:10:13 pm »
that I didn't buy a thermomix ten years ago !! Kids are in bed, and I fancied a bowl of soup. I sent my husband to the veggie patch, and he came back with carrots, leek, greens, onion, etc. I popped it all into the machine, and will have hot soup in a few minutes, which basically hasn't cost us anything.  I can't contain my excitement, I know I'm becoming a Thermomix bore, but there you go. Thermomix, I love you !
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« on: August 31, 2011, 05:04:12 pm »
My thermomix, my christmas / birthday present for the next 10 years, according to my husband, has arrived . I'm so EXCITED. Bread is rising, vegetable soup is cooking. Must go: I want to make butter next.
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« on: August 21, 2011, 04:04:36 pm »
I'm not that good on a computer, but when the old pc died, dh wanted an apple. We got one, and I love it. the ipad came later. If I had to choose between my husband and my Ipad, I'd hesitate, I honestly would. I find it fab for cooking, as we have a small ( but perfectly formed ) kitchen, so I have to organise the worktops. Also, I can now access the best BBC television programmes on the ipad for a minimal fee, which is wonderful for an expat who hasn't got a television.
I think that Thermomix is just starting to sell well here in Fance; probably due to the fact that it has been seen on the French version of "come dine with me " ( not that I've ever seen the programme).
I know of at least two people who've bought one, but don't use it, because they think it's too loud and "gives them a headache". Blinking heck. They should live in my house for a day with two boys under seven, an elder sister who joins in with them, a cat, two dogs, a hubby with an electric guitar, a very chirpy budgie and 13 chickens , then they'll know what noise is .
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« on: August 21, 2011, 03:55:55 pm »
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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« on: August 20, 2011, 04:23:55 pm »
Organic macadamian nuts are VERY EXPENSIVE. I'm wondering how to use Hazelnuts. Would I need to take off the skin ?
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« on: August 20, 2011, 09:20:02 am »
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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« on: August 20, 2011, 09:09:20 am »
Frozzie, I work for Diwan ( Breton language schools) and this attracts families with a certain way of life, so it isn't difficult to group together a few families for bulk buying. About 50 % of the kids in the school eat organic, and we have 8 organic farming families in the school !!!
Decadent Dot: I know Pen Maen Mawr !!
I have been baulking at the price of Thermomix recipe books ( 65 euros for one which is apparently the best and going out of print, 101 something or other.) Somebody has offered to sell me all the Thermomoix books in pdf form, to stick on the computer. This appeals to me as I don't buy cookery books any more, I use the BBC Good food magazine, that I download on my I pad. What do you think ?
Cornish cream: I love Cornwall, midway as it is between my beloved Wales, and adopted Brittany. One of my teaching friends speaks Cornish, her late father was the Archdruid Richard Jenkin. I'm wondering if you can make Cornish clotted cream in the Thermomix !!!!!
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« on: August 19, 2011, 05:47:09 pm »
Thanks for the help. I can't believe how excited I am about buying a ....... mixer. I couldn't sleep last nigh, and went on the internet to find recipes...
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« on: August 19, 2011, 05:43:59 pm »
Hello, dedidassi ! I know what you mean about French women, frozzie. I love gping home to Wales to buy clothes, as I feel very skinny in Wales. I'm a size 12, but some clothes don't even come in my size !!! ( Kanabeach, for example.)
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« on: August 19, 2011, 05:38:21 pm »
Thankyou evreyone, for your lovely messages. Frozzie, we live on the north coast of Finistère, in a little village called Plouguerneau. My husband is Breton, but I was born and brought up In Wales ( Pembrokeshire.) I bulk buy everything. I buy flour in 20 kilo bags from several mills, and we buy meat from a few different organic farms, by bulk buying with other families. I bought half a pig a few months ago. We then spend a "fun" evening putting everything in bags to freeze. Last week I cleaned, chopped and bagged 16 kilos of rhubarb from the garden- nearly went mad. However, the thermomix lady made rhubarb sorbet yesterday, to show how the machine worked.
Thermoheaven, where are you in Oz ?
Cornish Cream: are you Cornish? My Dad was a proud Cornishman, from a little village outside Bodmin.
I'm looking forward to reading your posts. I can tell this is a friendly, cosmopolitan forum.
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« on: August 19, 2011, 10:31:06 am »
I'm looking for two specific recipes  1. Peanut butter 2. Chocolate spread The first isn't in any French thermomixbook, in fact it isn't really part of the French diet. They don't know what they're missing out on ... Many thanks to anyone who can help me out ....
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« on: August 19, 2011, 10:28:14 am »
Hello everyone. Well, I bought a Thermomix yesterday, after years of wanting !! I have two weeks of recipe planning , before the machine arrives. We eat organic, with vegetables from the garden, fish caught by my husband when he's lucky enough to catch something, eggs from our chickens, and whole chicken when it's time for one to go to chicken heaven ...
I try to make everything myself, cakes bisuits etc, so am really looking forward to going that little bit further; the foodstuffs that are mega expensive but essential to us are organic chocolate spread ( 7 euros a pot) peanut butter ( 10 euros a pot) and puff pastry.
You can tell that I'm very excited, and am really looking forward to hearing from all you thermomix experts , or megamix, as my little 4 year old calls it !!!
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