Thanks everyone for your wonderful tips xx  I've got my thermomix demonstration this afternoon - yeah!  I spent yesterday evening copy and pasting loads of recipes that I want to try out from this site into my little cooking folder on my computer - can't wait to get to grips with this thermomix and really get going.  Thanks for your support  xx  Bex

Hi Everyone,

       I've just bought my thermomix, got it out of its package, given it its first clean and tried my first recipe!!  Almond soup - delicious!.  I've got 2 young children another one on the way (which will mean 3 children under 4 by March) and a husband that would love love love to be cooked for more often!!  My usual cooking routine ends up being ...cooking mine and the children's lunch, cooking the childrens tea, and then being so exhuasted by the time I get the kids in bed that the last thing I feel like is cooking again for my husband.  I'm hoping that the thermomix will reduce my cooking time,  give me inspiration of what to cook (with the lovely big recipe book) AND reduce my fear of trying to cook delicious looking recipes!!  and help me to enjoy cooking more! - I certainly enjoyed trying out an almond soup that I've wanted to try for ages but never had the guts to start a smooth soup with whole lot of hard almonds... eith the thermomix those almonds were powdered in seconds and the whole family wanted second helpings of the smoothest most yummy soup.            Question:  Is there a way of preparing something in the thermomix in the early morning and setting it to be ready by lunch  time - enabling me to do something out of the house in the morning with the kids and coming back to the meal cooked and ready - ie a stew / lentils or something similar..... or do I always need to cook it first then go out, then heat it up for lunch?     I'm really looking forward to trying out some of the delicious looking recipes on this site...
Oh and another !Question:  I'm english but live in Spain and have bought my thermomix here which is full of spanish recipes - delicious but I would love to know if there are other recipe books with different food too.  Is this an australian site?  I've never been to Australia - is your food more multi cultural like in England?  Spain definitely has lots of delicious recipes but they are all very very spanish and the thermomix recipe book I have doesn't seem to venture out beyond spanish recipes. SO is there a site where I can brouse recipe books on line or at least their covers and titles?    xxx Rebecca