Hi Perth Mum, welcome to the forum. Put the EDC in a drawer and check out the recipes on here. They are varied and versatile. We all like to tweak and add our own variations - I'm sure you are the same. I quickly grew tired of the EDC when I first got my machine so started converting my own recipes but we now have so many new recipe books, it is not a matter of 'what will I cook tonight' but 'which one will I try tonight'. We all have piles of recipes on our 'to do' list. Have fun here and it's lovely to see DS helping out too.