New here :)

[tarasis]

Hi all, now I've made it through the initial vetting and Xmas is finished I thought I'd say HI

I'm Rob, my missus is Bob and we got a Thermomix earlier this year after she was won over by a couple of demo evenings last year. Its really her toy but as she is out at work and I am the stay at home dad I tend to use it more than she does The Thermomix has replaced a Magimix that we've had for 6 years, though honestly apart from using it to make baby food it didn't get used that much.

We're Brits living in Germany (which makes getting some ingredients fun), been here for 4.5 years now. We've 2 kids who are 5.5 & 4, they are very picky eaters indeed more so than I am (no veggies, no fruit), so I tend not to use the TM much for day to day use.

I'm joining the forum in part to join in, ask questions and hopefully say thank you when I try a recipe

The TM just played a large role in the meals we did over the Xmas period, we used it to make:

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=3022.0 Chicken Korma x2 - First attempt was okay, second (with more spices) was gorgeous.

http://tenina.com/2008/06/na-na-naan/ Naan bread - I rolled it a bit thinner than the 5mm but was still great
Rustic loaf from one of the books - multiple times, still cant get the end result to be consistent

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1788.0;prev_next=next Soda Bread - Though as I'm from Northern Ireland, the end result is more like Wheaten Bread in terms of look and taste (just without the wheaten flour) than actually soda bread. Tasted great though and lasted for a while.

http://simonesthermomixessentials.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/pams-gingernuts-recipe/ Gingernuts - Again made twice, though that was because we needed a batch to use as the base for a Lime & Mascarpone Cheesecake. First batch was slightly on the wrong side of gooey but that second batch was to die for and was more of a melting gooey.

Tomato Soup - no idea what recipe

For 2011 I plan to get into using it more and I'm going to order the English Indian Thermomix cook book

[Zan]

Hi and welcome.

The TMX is great for hiding veg in food for fussy kids. Mine eat pretty much anything but I still add a bit of extra hidden in a lot of meals, lol.
What sort of foods do your kids like?
Pasta? Mine love creamy tomato pasta (sort of the edc creamy salami fettucine - but no salami) which I put a fair bit of veg in.
No fruit? what about icecream?
I'm sure others with fussy eaters can give you some ideas on fussy eater friendly foods.

[Meagan]

Hi rob and welcome. Great to have another bloke on board 

[judydawn]

Hi Rob, yes I agree with Meagan, great to have another male on our forum.  We don't have too many and excuse me if I refer to 'the girls' on here sometimes    Thanks for sharing the recipes you've tried with us, loved the way you set it out and made comments afterwards.  Looking forward to hearing more about what you do in the kitchen.

[faffa_70]

Hi Rob and welcome - Yay another male    Great to have the men on board to show that anyone and everyone can and do use the TMX.

p.s. I love SAH dad's too 

[maddy]

Welcome Rob 
You've found the right place for recipes, help, tips and some banter thrown in 

[cookie1]

Welcome Rob. Lovely to have a SAD on the forum.

[Cornish Cream]

Hi and welcome to the forum Rob.

[Ninny]

Hi Rob, you are on fire with the recipes, i'm tending to cook the same things and now need to branch out! Enjoy the forum. Jenny 

[trudy]

Welcome to the forum Rob & Bob.  What part of Germany are you in?  Wayne and I were in Bavaria a year ago and loved it.

[tarasis]

First, hi everyone sorry for not getting back sooner. Thank you all for the welcome, it was lovely.

Good to know there are some other SAD's floating around here (seriously SAD? ... Hmm actually probably a little apt, I do find being a SAD tough)

More a sciency type, so improvising recipes / adapting existing ones is not my thing. Prefer following explicit instructions

Zan - will invesitage, kids are very fussy. Ice-cream has to be vanilla or chocolate, not keen on Pasta other than Spaghetti Carbonara, Spaghetti Bol (and then only sometimes, last attempt on Friday, oldest wouldn't touch it, youngest ate it), Lasange, Bread, Bread, Bread and nor Bread, Fried Rice, Bacon and Breakfast Cereal oh yeah Nutella   

Judydawn - happy for referring to the girls, growing up I used to mostly hang out with girls. Preferred their company

Trudy - we are near Hamburg (Buchholz, 15km away, state of Niedersachsen). I'd probably enjoy it more if I could speak a decent amount of German but I use English with the kis all the time so I don't learn that fast and getting to a course isn't possible at the moment.

Used the Thermomix again this evening for Chicken in Yoghurt http://bit.ly/f3w8Qw the taste was nice, though a little burny (will try again soon but probably leave the Chillies out, as it was we used red and not green as we couldn't get green) as an after taste. We just did naan bread with it, rather than rice & naan this time.

Going to try the other half of the naan dough as a pizza base tomorrow, I like thin bases, so hoping it will work out.

[achookwoman]

Welcome Rob.  Have fun with your machine.  Plenty of recipes here for you to try.

[Katya]

Welcome Rob and good luck with your TMX journey.

With regard to learning German, have you come across the Radio Lingua site?   They do introductory courses for learning languages free (although you do pay for extras) which I think are good.   If you are interested, do a web search for "Coffee Break German".

[chaotic]

Hi Rob,
I don't know if your kids will go for it - luckily mine did, we give them "ice cream" which is made from bananas, frozen fruit (normally raspberries) and yoghurt. They love it and we normally make sure there are a couple of chopped up bananas in the freezer so we can throw it together at the end of a meal. My son had quite a few allergies when he was smaller including eggs, nuts and 160b which is a food colouring in most vanilla ice creams so luckily for us this is the only ice cream he's really known but it's a great way to get fruit into them too!

[quirkycooking]

Welcome Rob!    Have you tried Fried Rice in the Thermomix??  So yummy, and easy!  You might have to change the ingredients a bit to what they'll eat...  (This is my recipe here)

That ice cream sounds delicious, Chaotic!!