Demat eus Breizh hello from Brittany

[gobaith]

Hello everyone. Well, I bought a Thermomix yesterday, after years of wanting !! I have two weeks of recipe planning , before the machine arrives. We eat organic, with vegetables from the garden, fish caught by my husband when he's lucky enough to catch something, eggs from our chickens, and whole chicken when it's time for one to go to chicken heaven ...
I try to make everything myself, cakes bisuits etc, so am really looking forward to going that little bit further; the foodstuffs that are mega expensive but essential to us are organic chocolate spread ( 7 euros a pot) peanut butter ( 10 euros a pot) and puff pastry.
              You can tell that I'm very excited, and am really looking forward to hearing from all you thermomix experts , or megamix, as my little 4 year old calls it !!!

[thermoheaven]

Hello and welcome!

Your existence sounds ideal and I'm sure once you have your tm, you will find preparation even more rewarding. peanut butter should be so much more inexpensive once you can make your own. I do't know how much peants are in France, but they are one of the cheapest, if not the cheapest nuts in Australia.

[Cornish Cream]

Welcome to the forum gobaith.You really are prepared for the arrival on your TM after wanting one for so long.Have fun cooking.

[dede]

Hi and Welcome to the forum gobaith, Sounds like you have been wanting a TM for a very long time. I hope you don't have to wait to long for it to arrive. It will make life so much easier for you. Happy cooking and have lots of fun.

[Frozzie]

hi gobaith
where abouts in Bretagne are you?? my DHs family comes from bretagne and are in the gulfe du morbihan..so are you north or south brittany?  you will lvoe the flavour and how easy it is to make your own choc spread and peanut butter etc...unfortunately in France I find that organic or bio produce isnt cheaper if you buy it in smaller or bulk quantities..
We are in Tourraine...do you source your produce locally from organic farms etc (those that you dont grow at  home)....im still having trouble finding organic meats etc from local farms....look forward to your future posts!

[judydawn]

Hi Gobaith, welcome to the forum.  Sounds like you already know what you expect from the TMX and your child is going to love all the goodies it makes.

[gobaith]

Thankyou evreyone, for your lovely messages. Frozzie, we live on the north coast of Finistère, in a little village called Plouguerneau. My husband is Breton, but I was born and brought up In Wales ( Pembrokeshire.) I bulk buy everything. I buy flour in 20 kilo bags from several mills, and we buy meat from a few different organic farms, by bulk buying with other families. I bought half a pig a few months ago. We then spend a "fun" evening putting everything in bags to freeze. Last week I cleaned, chopped and bagged 16 kilos of rhubarb from the garden- nearly went mad. However, the thermomix lady made rhubarb sorbet yesterday, to show how the machine worked.
Thermoheaven, where are you in Oz ?
Cornish Cream: are you Cornish? My Dad was a proud Cornishman, from a little village outside Bodmin.

I'm looking forward to reading your posts. I can tell this is a friendly, cosmopolitan  forum.

[Carine]

Bienvenue gobaith!  Like you we're trying to be as self-sufficient as possible:  vegie patch, orchard, rabbits, lambs and steers + the odd roo
Shame you don't leave closeby I would have loved to swap a few kg of oranges for some rhubarb

[trudy]

Welcome to the forum.  Wow, how I would love your supply of rhubarb.  I moved mine last season and they have been struggling ever since.  Can't wait to read how you intend to use it.  To freeze do you just chop and then freeze?

[achookwoman]

Welcome to the Forum gobaith, you are going to have a fab time with your TMX.  We tried the self sufficiency life many years ago,  but found it difficult as we lived in the country only on the weekends.  today we live in the country full time, and we grow a lot of veggies,  some fruit, eggs and we swap when we have a lot of something for what we don't have.  Today I am going to make Lemon and Carrot Marmalade,  most of which I will give away.  the TMX is great in that you can make a small batch,  about 4 jars.  I will make this while I prepare tea.  I hope you have bread on your list as it is so easy in the TMX ,  and there are many good recipes on the Forum.  so have fun,

[Frozzie]

Thankyou evreyone, for your lovely messages. Frozzie, we live on the north coast of Finistère, in a little village called Plouguerneau. My husband is Breton, but I was born and brought up In Wales ( Pembrokeshire.) I bulk buy everything. I buy flour in 20 kilo bags from several mills, and we buy meat from a few different organic farms, by bulk buying with other families. I bought half a pig a few months ago. We then spend a "fun" evening putting everything in bags to freeze. Last week I cleaned, chopped and bagged 16 kilos of rhubarb from the garden- nearly went mad. However, the thermomix lady made rhubarb sorbet yesterday, to show how the machine worked.

gobaith I too buy flour from the mill and that yes is less expensive but honestly i recently got 15kgs of beef with a neighbour and the quality wasnt that great and honestly its cheaper than the butcher but not cheaper than the supermarket and I would put it at supermarket quality (quite disappointed) but I was mainly talking about nuts, grains and other getting it cheaper and organic...still havent found organic flour..i get my flour from the local mill but its not organic...how did you get buying with other families..someone you knew or from a website?? would be interested to know as i am keen to bulk buy organic but havent found anything as yet and whats available in stores biocoops etc its the same price per kilo for a smaller or larger quantité...

[Decadent Dot]

Hello gobaith,
It sounds like you are having "The Good Life" I am really trying hard to buying the basic, organic ingredients. I am English with a half Welsh background as my father came from Pen Mien Mour. (I hope I spelt that right)
I see that my nearby farmer's market is now stocking flour direct from a local miller. Its only 2 miles from my house so I have no excuse to drop by. I am sure we will all benefit from your back to basic use of the Thermy.

[Cornish Cream]

Cornish Cream: are you Cornish? My Dad was a proud Cornishman, from a little village outside Bodmin.

I am Cornish and was born in a village between Truro and Falmouth.Both my brothers still live there amd visit them often.

[gobaith]

Frozzie, I work for Diwan ( Breton language schools) and this attracts families with a certain way of life, so it isn't difficult to group together a few families for bulk buying. About 50 % of the kids in the school eat organic, and we have 8 organic farming families in  the school !!!
Decadent Dot: I know Pen Maen Mawr !!

I have been baulking at the price of Thermomix recipe books ( 65 euros for one which is apparently the best and going out of print, 101 something or other.) Somebody has offered to sell me all the Thermomoix books in pdf form, to stick on the computer. This appeals to me as I don't buy cookery books any more, I use the BBC Good food magazine, that I download on my I pad. What do you think ?

Cornish cream: I love Cornwall, midway as it is between my beloved Wales, and adopted Brittany. One of my teaching friends speaks Cornish, her late father was the Archdruid Richard Jenkin. I'm wondering if you can make Cornish clotted cream in the Thermomix !!!!!

[Frozzie]

oh lucky you gobaith to have such a group right there for you to be part of...no such luck here although im sure ill find it as i know there are more and more organic farmers..