Hi, I'm Warren from the US (Pennsylvania)

[brazen20au]

welcome to the club we'll teach you the secret handshake then .... 

[UnConundrum]

GEEZ, Isn't it awfully early over there?  Go back to bed!

[brazen20au]

LOL even worse i hadn't even GOT to bed til nearly 4am!

[Thermomixer]

Well, I won the auction, so I'll be officially joining the club in a week or so

Great News -    Wish we had some of the outrageous emoticons on the Spanish and Italian sites to celebrate

[fannyadams]

Which model did you win?  I love your kitchen, looks like a professional one and you have so much equipment. I thought I had a lot.............

[UnConundrum]

Hi Fanny.  Welcome to the group

I got the new model, and love it

[fannyadams]

Hi Warren

Yes I've had the machine since just before Christmas and I love it.  I find that I am using it all the time and doing things that previously I would think I hadn't got time to do.  I am yet to do a whole meal in the machine, just extras like soup and dessert. Oh actually I did steam some sea bass with ginger garlic, soy, a touch of sesame oil and a little dry sherry with noodles and pak choi, which was delicious.  Any ideas you have got please pass on as I can see you are some cook.

[UnConundrum]

Wow!  That sounds delicious.  I've yet to use my strainer basket, and only tried the varoma once with less than stellar results with broccoli.  I saw a recipe for a red beet soup with horseradish dumplings in one of the books.  I'm planning on trying that this weekend   (the dumplings are cooked in the varoma). 

I'm not sure I'll rely on the TM for "one pot" meals....  First off, I eat like a horse, and not sure I can steam enough protein at once in it   But it has clearly proven it is one heck of an addition.  Probably more risotto in our future too.

[Thermomixer]

Do you have a partly metal or fully plastic Varoma?  The newer one is all plastic and has marginally larger carrying capacity.

I have put in a tray fashioned from my previous Varoma tray to get more in - should post how I did that as it means I can prepare 10 dariole moulds in the machine.

Good luck with the dumplings.

[UnConundrum]

  Never got to the dumplings.  That was my Saturday project and family called and suggested we all go out to dinner.  Maybe one day this week.  I did get to the Swedish Meatballs I wanted to try out.  They were great.

My varoma is all plastic