Well the cherry ripe icecream was a hit!  I used the recipe in this thread as the basis for it but here's my version...

100gm block chocolate (I used Black & Gold organic Maya Gold)
400ml coconut cream
200ml cream
395gm sweetened condensed milk
250gm frozen cherries

Chop chocolate 4 seconds speed 6.  Remove from tmx.

Butterfly in.  Whip coconut cream, cream & condensed milk (I did this for 1min20sec on speed 4 waiting for it to form peaks but it doesn't, so I guess 30 seconds on speed 4 would probably do)

Add 175gm frozen cherries. 15 seconds on speed 5
Add 100gm chunked up chocolate. 6 seconds speed 3
Add the rest of the cherries & mix 5 seconds speed 1

Pour into freezer container & freeze.  After a couple of hours give it a stir.  I didn't stir mine (I fell asleep!) so all the chocolate & cherries settled on the bottom.  But it was still AWESOME!

Enjoy!

Found this recipe.  How do you convert it to tmx?  (I'm so new at this...  )

Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia Ice Cream Recipe
(Makes grateful 1 quart)

Ben & Jerry - "A couple of Dead Heads in Maine sent us a postcard with a name for a new flavor. They left the recipe up to us. We got to work with some fresh bing cherries and threw in the chocolate flakes as a last minute inspiration. At last report, both Jerry Garcia and his wife Carolyn are crazy about it."

Ingredients

1/4 cup shaved plain chocolate (B&J prefer Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate candy bars. I couldn't find them in Sydney, I replaced them with Hershey Milk Chocolate candy bars)
1/4 cup fresh Bing cherries, halved and pitted (you may use canned cherries, but see sure to drain the syrup)
2 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
2 cups heavy or whipping cream
1 cup milk

Method

   1. Place the shaved chocolate flakes and the cherries in separate bowls. Cover and refrigerate.
   2. Whisk the eggs in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Whish in the sugar, a little at a time, then continue whisking until completely blended, about 1 minute more. Pour in the cream and milk and whisk to blend.
   3. Transfer the mixture to an ice cream maker and freeze following the manufacturer's instructions.
   4. After the ice cream stiffen (about 2 minutes before it is done), add the chocolate and the cherries, then continue freezing until the ice cream is ready.

Thanks for the welcomes.  Judy I see you're in Adelaide too.  We're up in the hills on a small property.  Where are you?

I planted out a lot of new fruit trees this year so I'm looking forward to the abundance of fruit in the next year or two.  I now have about 40 fruiting plants that will give us fruit from November to June.  We try to grow as much of our own food as possible (although most of the vegie patch is fallow this season) so Spinderella will come in very handy with helping me preserve it all.

I'm also thrilled to see there's a section on non-food recipes.  We try to live as chemical free as possible, so I'll be visiting that part of the forum a fair bit.

Right now researching the jam threads.  I made strawberry jam but it's more like strawberry sauce.  The children are shelling peanuts to make peanut paste & I've got a kilo of apricots & white fleshed plums ready for jamming too.  Guess what we're giving family for Christmas? 

Hello!  I am the proud owner (aren't we all?) of a new Thermomix.  We have named her Spinderella.  I am her lovely step-mother & her two little step-sisters love throwing stuff in her & watching her work her magic in the kitchen.  If only she could sweep... 

We are located in Adelaide.  I don't love cooking, but I have a fantastic husband who does.  However I think Spinderella may change my feelings about cooking and so may all of you because I've been browsing the recipes here & wow! I want to cook!  Thanks for the inspiration so far.  Looking forward to more.