Hello

[Thermowoman]

I am a professional Personal Chef and have recently acquired a Thermomix and am coming to terms with it gradually.

My husband who is a notorious non-vegetable eater has been consuming fantastic vegetable soups every lunchtime..all of our garden produce is used up instead of languishing in the basket and he has lost 3 lb in weight just by eating vegetables at lunchtime in the past 3 weeks.
I am very very happy with my Thermomix but not at all happy with one or two recipes in the book. I have been severely embarrassed by the Hollandaise sauce recipe for a start!.....Hollandaise sauce needs the butter melted first you cannot do it with cubes no matter how small....I got caught at one of my daughter's functions when I was practicing demonstrating the machine.....the awful oily gloop that came out after following the recipe was highly embarrassing. I did however manage to save the day...it was a special occasion...by whisking all the egg whites stiff and adding the Hollandaise disaster slowly to these. I finished this off by hand and the foaming hollandaise was a great success.....There were 40 people at her celebration and thank goodness no one really saw the original hollandaise.

Please please let's have a disclaimer to this recipe in the book. I don't think I am the only one who has found this problem.

I look forward to reading all the posts here and getting some new ideas.

Best wishes

Fay

[trudy]

Welcome Fay!!!

[Thermomixer]

Welcome Fay - good to hear the Thermomix has helped convert the carnivore into an omnivore.  Congrats to him on losing weight too.

The hollandaise is a problem there are a few threads already - http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=957.0,  http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2050.0 and http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=216.0.  So yes, there have been problems - are you using the English or Australian cookbook?

We are looking forward to you contributing some professional tips   

[Amanda]

Welcome aboard, Fay!!
I was wondering which book you are using, too.  There has been quite a bit of discussion about the failings of the Australian book on this forum!!

[cookie1]

Welcome Fay. Wow, you were brave doing an untried recipe at a special gathering. I'm a real woose and only use proven ones. 
At least you knew how to save the sauce, well done.
I look forward to your sharing recipes with us.

[Very Happy Jan]

Welcome Fay

[Thermowoman]

Thanks for your welcome..I am using the UK recipe book...I believe it is the latest published here. I also have the French book A Table avec Thermomix which I have so far found perfect except the Hollandais. There is no way the picture of it was made with that recipe!

I am a fanatic about recipes and publications that miss bits out making people use expensive ingredients without getting promised results.

I spent many years re-writing recipes from a well known magazine in UK that had so many mistakes....I would publish them in my delicatessen with the corrected version and an example of the cooked item...I was amazed how many people had been dissapointed and felt very sad for them as the magazine was very up market with very expensive ideas.

You don't get mistakes with Julia Child so why do so many publishers make them even these days.

I wish I could transform all Julia's recipes for Thermomix

Fay

[Katya]

Welcome Fay.   Whereabouts in the UK are you based?  I'm up in the frozen wastelands of the north - at least that's what it feels like today.   Makes me very jealous of our fellow Australian TMXers who are just getting into their ice-cream season.

[gertbysea]

I wish I could transform all Julia's recipes for Thermomix

Fay
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Give it a go Fay we'll be patient.

Gretchen

[Nay-nay]

Oh yes please do Thermowoman!! Old style cooking meets modern age TMX. I can't wait to get the new book out - "Grandma's Cooking" - has anyone seen it and recommend it???

[cookie1]

No Nay-Nay, hope it's at the Christmas do.

I went and saw the movie 'Julie and Julia' this morning. Loved it.  Fay, I'll wait anxiously for your TMX conversions of her recipes too.

[faffa_70]

I got sad news on the Grandma's cooking book today..... it is a book written by one of my team members that my GL was promoting and it isn't even TMX. I was suffering from the flu at the meeting but didn't think I missed all that information!  Anyway I am going to get it and will let you all know what it is like and pass on any good info 

[Di]

Hi Thermowoman.
The first thing I made in my Thermomix was hollandaise sauce it turned out beautifully, & I have made it again since as my DH has a weakness for eggs benedict. Possibly the only criticism I have is there was a little too much lemon in it.

[Di]

Hi Fay,
I omitted to say that I am from Australia & used the Australian version of the cook book.

Hope you have more luck with the other recipes.

Di

[cookie1]

Thanks for that info Kathryn. They may be easy to convert. Possibly recipes of my era and my Mothers. I will be interested to hear about it, although I have decided that I DO NOT need anymore cookbooks unless they are TMX ones.