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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello and help!
« on: December 17, 2010, 08:49:51 am »
Thanks so much everyone. You're all so very welcoming and lovely!

Based on what you've all said I think the problem was with our sterilising. We used our baby bottle steriliser, but we didn't turn them upside down and I'm sure the lids weren't popped in. Better luck next time hey!

LOL @ turning disasters into soup or sorbet!

I made lasagne tonight and that was much more successful. When I get a free minute I'll def be browsing the forum for some yummy recipes.

Zan - thanks so much for the rice milk link. It looks like a really good recipe. Am unsure about using almonds though as my baby is only 9 months - but soon he'll be able to have nuts I guess. Until then I'll just leave them out. Although I can have it with the almonds (still nursing him so I can't eat dairy either). Can't wait to try the recipe.

Thanks again everyone!

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello and help!
« on: December 15, 2010, 11:53:53 pm »
Thanks Zan,

Have just returned after spending an hour cleaning up the tomato explosion in the kitchen!

That's a good idea with the ice-cream maker - use TM to make the mix, then have ICM stir it. Will try that one!
I tend to find sauteeing onion/garlic always needs longer than the recipe says. Maybe I need to try more recipes from the forum instead.

I'm also having trouble finding a good rice milk recipe - the first batch we made was too watery and not at all creamy and sweet like the commercial ones (even the commercial ones without sugar - we don't want to put sugar in ours as it's for our baby).

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Introduce Yourself / Hello and help!
« on: December 15, 2010, 10:12:38 pm »
Hi all,

Have had our TM for about a month now. We have looked at this forum lots and it helped us decide to get the thermomix - you all seem very lovely! We think the machine itself is fantastic, but right now it feels like we're throwing out more $$ worth of food than we're saving.

A week ago DH made passata (tomato cooking sauce), following the recipe in the book and storing it in the cupboard as instructed. Well all week I've noticed a strange smell in the cupboard, and this morning we realised that the passata was off and had been oozing out of the bottles (and consequently took out some other food that was stored nearby). Poor DH opened it to tip it down the sink, where it promptly exploded all over the kitchen. It had also separated in the jars - a strange oil-like substance at the bottom and tomato pulp at the top. What did we do wrong? So much wasted food :(

The ice-cream/sorbets we've made have tasted ok initially, but after being in the freezer a couple of days they turned icy and really hard. Is this normal?

Does anyone else find the cooking times in the recipe book aren't terribly accurate? We often have to cook things quite a bit longer than it said.

Don't know what's going wrong - so very frustrated! Please help us get out of this!  ???

Thanks :)


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