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[skinkone]

Hi everyone,

I had never been very big on cooking, and being single it just didn't seem worth the hassle. That left me with perennial tuna salads or cheese and wine as my everyday fare. Besides being boring, it can't be that healthful to eat the same things day in and day out.

All of this changed when I got my Bimby about 2 months ago. It's been a great way to expand the variety of dinner choices. I make stews and lasagnas, lemon chicken, ossobuco. I have people over for dinner (hosted 11 people on Saturday night) and was able to make a sorbet, potato puree, lasagna, a roast (OK, that was outside Bimby), and chocolate liqueur. Since I'm an American guy living in Milan, Italy, I always had a get-out-of-jail-free card with respect to my (lack of) culinary skills. With Bimby, I'm getting to be taken seriously. It was nice getting compliments on the lasagne ... from Italians no less!

Anyway, I haven't ventured too much into the complicated stuff, but I hope that will change as I gain more confidence.

Look forward to trying out the recipes and the advice!

p.s. everyone here talks about the standard cookbook, but I think my Italian version is somewhat different!

[Thermomixer]

Benvenuto al forum.

Great to have an American on board - even if you are in Milano (brazen will love you). 

It really does make cooking semplice.

The Italian cookboks are superior if si parla italiano.  They have a great variety.

Check out the Italian forums too if you speak Italian - cookaround,com and http://bimby.mastertopforum.com/index.php?sid=418d8c185ce617b2d1abf6da73fb96a0

Buona fortuna

Ciao

[skinkone]

Grazie! My Italian friends were semi-horrified when I explained that one could cook pasta inside "il Bimby", but when they tasted how good it was, I was able to soften the skepticism.

[gertbysea]

G'day Skinkone and welcome. Have a look at the Italian web site as well www.bimby.mastertopforum.com. You can get  your friends to translate if you don't read Italian though with a dictionery it isn't that hard to figure out or go to Google to translate. There are a lot of really good local recipes that would impress your Italian friends.

Then again there are a lot of impressive recipes right here.

Gretchen

[judydawn]

Hi & welcome Skinkone - nice story. Sounds like you have the best of both worlds if you can speak Italian with your choices of websites and recipes.  Keep on impressing those friends of yours.

[Thermomixer]

Grazie! My Italian friends were semi-horrified when I explained that one could cook pasta inside "il Bimby", but when they tasted how good it was, I was able to soften the skepticism.

LOL - the first thing I ever saw cooked in a Bimby was a noodle dish and I thought that it would be mush when they finished cooking - but it was perfect.  ...and that was the old TM 21 that did not have reverse !!

[brazen20au]

welcome! and yes, i love milano! i lived there for 8 months as a nanny

[cookie1]

Welcome Skinkone. It's great that you were able to impress your Italian friends with Bimby. I look forward to some of your Italian recipes.

[CreamPuff63]

Congratulations on waking up your taste buds  I am sure your friends will be dropping over a lot more often now that they can go home with a belly full of food rather than just cheese, crackers and wine 

[Meagan]

Welcome to the forum

[Sundari]

Welcome and if you do find some great recipes come and share them on here