New products from the Pampered Chef (available Sept 2012)

My favourite piece is the new round covered baker, retailing at £46. I can see lots and lots of uses for this and I'm wondering if you all like it as much as I do. I have pictured it here next to a (very loved and well seasoned) small bar pan for sizing purposes. I'm keen to know what you think of this piece and what you imagine you would cook in it. 

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My children's favourite: the brownie pan. As you can see it was tested immediately! It retails at £18.75 and I can vouch for the quality of it's non-stickiness, those brownies just popped out and there was nothing left to wash up! Also I'm sure you can spot two round brownies at the front of the picture. These have been cooked in 2 of a set of 6 mini pie pans (with removable bottoms). These also retail at £18.75 for the set and are as brilliantly non-stick as the muffin pan.

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To complete this group of bakeware we also have a set of six mini tart pans, also with removable bottoms which Will Torrent (http://www.willtorrent.com/news.htm) used to create the lovely tarts on the front of our new (smaller sized) catalogues for the new season. These also retail at £18.75. 

Pictured below is our new ice cream scoop, that I was very sceptical about but which works beautifully. This retails at £14.75. 

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All our coloured spotty glasses are being replaced by these "frosted" ones. These include the frosted dots small beverage glasses (£19.50), frosted dots large beverage glasses (£21.50) and the frosted dots stemware (£32.50). There will be no frosted martini glasses. 

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This is all I have pictured for you for now. More to follow....

Holiday!

Afer a very busy run up to the holidays we are finally here!

I hope I have managed to see you or contact you before my departure from the UK, but it was all rather hectic.

My month started with a team meeting on the Monday, a fruitless trip to ENT for a follow up appoinment for my son (there was no-one to see him so we were sent away), a small but fun home show on Thursday all topped off with a trip to North Yorkshire (so far away from London!) through the floods and terrible weather, for a beautiful wedding on a gloriously sunny day on Saturday afternoon. Back home on Sunday more exhausted than ever!

Three more hospital appointments this week and it feels as though we are back to the bad old days, but they are soon all over. Training on Wednesday on Skype for other Pampered Chef consultants, and a birthday dinner for my nephew on Thursday. Lunch to say goodbye to a good friend on Friday and a 25th wedding anniversary party "bollywood style" on Saturday.

A fabulous cooking show on Monday and the host is going to join my team after the holidays. Another very happy host with lots of free products and business to start for just £70. I know she'll make a great consultant and hopefully team leader too. 

Thursday to Saturday were full on Pampered Chef days. Masses of training, lots of networking, maybe a few too many drinks had by some and some ridiculous pricing from the Hilton NEC. A glass of fizzy water and a cointreau set me back nearly £15! No wonder we try to bring our own booze, yet what we want to do is spend time in company and that means coping with the Hilton prices! Other than that, the conference was, as ever, fabulous. We have some great new products on the horizon, I will add pictures as we go along.

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Son's birthday party on Sunday, the olympic torch to watch on Monday, then a cooking show on Tuesday. I met some great ladies (and one gent!), coped with making choux pastry, my host gave herself an electric shock and fused the oven, so the curry was even later than usual, but yummy. Pimms in the trifle bowl went down a storm. Three bookings, wow they want me back! Another cooking show on Wednesday a totally new group of people, ladies only this time, and two bookings from here. It is such a buzz when people want to see you again.

Thursday morning 9am (actually nearer 9.30am) we left home for the long drive down towards Toulouse. How I did the packing (badly) I have no idea - we have nearly everything we need. Now to learn to wind down and relax! 

Welcome

Welcome to my brand new blog... I'm not sure how it is going to shape up yet, so I'm looking to you for suggestions and ideas.

For now, suffice to say that I should be packing as we are leaving for France tomorrow morning and I should be getting ready for my cooking show tonight, yet I'm still here... must go

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