Hello!

[mummyof2]

Hi fellow Thermie Lovers 

Just popping in to say hi, and a little intro.

I'm mummy to DD4 and DS2, and wife to DH!  We live on Hobart's sunny eastern shore!  I've actually had my Thermie for 18months, and lurked on here reading, so thought I should join in the frivolity! 

We love Thermie, especially DD4 and DS2 who ususally ask after dinner every night for sorbet!  Lucky for us we have a decent strawberry patch, and my parents have oodles of raspberries and lemons - so sorbets go down very well here.

Still having fun trying out new things.

[cookie1]

Hi and welcome Mummyof2. I'm glad that you have decided to join us. You're very lucky having raspberries so available.  I love them but we pay around $7 or 8 a punnet here. I should imagine they would make a lovely sorbet. I use frozen ones a lot.

[judydawn]

Hi mummyof2, welcome to the forum.  How did you lurk for so long and not want to comment on anything
Glad to hear the littlies are enjoying the TMX - it won't be too many more years and I'm sure they will be helping you out.
Thanks for joining us.

Cookie, my friend from Qld who stayed with us for a few nights last week, had also visited her brother who grows raspberries.  I was lucky enough to receive an ice-cream container full of them - I froze them flat then bagged them up, they will keep me going all summer. I paid about $7 for a 110g punnet the week before last.

[mummyof2]

Yes, we are VERY lucky.  raspberries are just sooo expensive.  We plan to put some canes in for next year now that our boundary fences are up.  We have a decent vegie garden, and so will be keen to expand as the year goes on. 

My DS2 already loves to help with the cooking - he will run from wherever he is when he hears the timer beeping, and yelling "Thermie, Thermie, Thermie" as he goes.  DD was really crabby the other day when we were baking a sponge cake and I used the Kitchen Aid (had it for years) and not the Thermie - mummy was reprimanded by the 4 year old!

I did lurk for a while, love perusing the recipes.  Mum and dad also have huge amounts of rhubarb, any ideas on what I could do with that?  Thinking about jam, and just the usual stewing and freezing - absolutly love rhubarb here.  My dad has always been a vegie gardener, so growing up we always fresh fruit and veg from the garden.  Mum used to always preserve the beetroot, nectarines etc, and there were always peas, beans and carrots in the freezer.  I love that our kids are growing up that way too.  They love picking the starwberries each afternoon, and pulling carrots fresh from the garden to eat.

[judydawn]

Check out this posting in regard to rhubarb recipes mummyof2.

[mummyof2]

THANKS

[trudy]

Welcome to the forum.

[Aussie Brenda]

Welcome, just reading you have lots of Rhubarb and the kids love smoothies, why not cook it up and freeze some for a fruity dream (if the little ones aren't allergic to egg whites)

[Cornish Cream]

Hi and welcome to the forum Mummyof2

[mcmich]

Great to see another Newbie. I also was a lurker (10 months).
I practiced in my food processor. Now I'm experimenting in the thermomix.
some successes and some failures.