fast and easy cooking cookbook and demonstrator delight's cookbook

[petit4s]

Does anyone have uk thermomix's fast and easy cooking cookbook and demonstrator delight's cookbook? Do you think they are worth getting?
Thanks

[CreamPuff63]

i have them, and i just enjoy looking through them to get ideas and inspiration. haven't cooked anything from DD yet, but have cooked a couple of things from F&E.

[petit4s]

Thanks for replying.
What recipes do they have in the DD book? There's an index of recipes for the F & E, but i have no idea about the DD. I guess what i want to know is that the recipes are different from the edc - I don't want to send away for them and find that they weren't worth the trouble.

[Meagan]

I have it, if I get a chance I will scan and upload the index. It is really thin and not like the EDC at all. I haven't cooked anything out of it yet either

[Cornish Cream]

Hi petit4s, I have cooked several things from the DD book with very good results.
Pea and Pancetta Risotto - good
Elegant Chicken and Potato Pie  -Divine
Pasta with Red Kidney Beans -good
Cardamon Cake -very good
Fig Mustard -I made this at the weekend and needs 6-8 weeks to mature, so can't comment.
I have eaten but not made the Brutti Ma Buoni which are also Divine.
The only recipe I have cooked that needs tweaking is the All- in- One Lamb Curry and Rice.If I remember(I cooked it ages ago) adding the rice was a mistake as it made it far too thick.

[petit4s]

Thanks - all that is good to know.

Does anyone know if these books will be available at any time in Australia? Australian thermomix brought out the Indian cookbook, so it would be nice if they brought out these two. Anyone have any idea?

[Greyhoundmum]

I made the cardamom cake today.  Step one is to put Cardomom pods in TMX on reverse to loosen them, then split them to get the seeds out!!!! Loosening them didn't work for me they were time consuming, then I realized I had a jar of Cardomom seeds so used those instead, my advice if you are going to use this recipe ... Buy the seeds rather than de pod them yourself!!

[Halex]

I have the fast & easy book. Use it occasionally just like my other books.

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[teagg]

I have the fast and easy one, and really enjoy it. I also like comparing the recipes in it with those elsewhere. There are some crossovers with other books but I find the slight differences to be culturally interesting.
I haven't yet got the dd book - I'm sort of tempted to task my mother with getting it in the uk.

In the meantime however - have you gone to ukthermomix.com and checked out their recipe list - also look back over their newsletters as they have recipes in them - along with other interesting tidbits!

I'll post again if I ever get to the state of dd ownership!!
Hth
G

[astarra]

I have the DD one, and love it. 
But in saying that, I made the chicken chassuer recipe a while ago...but all the ingred don't even fit in the bowl very easily...and then you have to cook it.So I tipped 1/2 out and cooked it in 2 batches then mixed them together. It was so yum that I have made it since...just a 1/2 quantity tho. 

[mcmich]

How do you purchase these books?

[astarra]

One of my SILs gave me mine - she brought some of the UK thermomix site, got a few to make the postage more realistic. HTH