September 18, 2006

  • It will come as no surprise, I daresay, that my angst and annoyance regarding the Sept. 18-20 delivery date for Bryson's gifts came to naught, as they hit the porch on Saturday.  Meaning I now have another kid's digital camera.  Do I send it back or keep it and give it to one of the kids, perhaps Brianna, for Christmas?  Hmmm.... 

    Though the Amazon Prime "two day delivery" doesn't necessarily live up to its press, so far its "$3.99 overnight" is shining like a star.  On Thursday I ordered a factory reconditioned KitchenAid stand mixer (325 watts of raw mixing power!) and by golly, it showed up late the next morning.

    I've traditionally ordered most of the children's Christmas gifts from Amazon, and will for sure pop for the overnight delivery, so I needn't fret about stuff showing up sporadically as it sometimes does.

    So far I've not made anything terribly interesting with the mixer, just some cupcakes and homemade frosting, but it was a pleasure. Dump the stuff in, turn it on and let the mixer do the work.  Yowza! 

    A word to the wise, however....if you use those silicone cupcake thingummies, remove the cupcakes before frosting them, for trying to get already-frosted cupcakes out of them is a messy affair indeed.

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  • I'm glad that the camera got there in time.  I am too lazy to send it back...by the way, your Texas mug has been sitting here for atleast a couple of months now....and I have a book that I promised Bret a long time ago when they were discussing Berkhoef's Roman Catholicism....  So, I would just keep it for another gift.
     
    I love my stand mixer! When I first got it, the guys joked about getting a lighted pedestal for it! Now get the Cakemix Doctor books, just dump all of the ingredients for a recipe in and turn on the mixer.  Voila! The most delicious cakes! Yum!

  • I am the world's worst sender-backer...the worst. Have a dress from Silhouettes I didn't care much for that needs to go back, too.

    And darn it, I told Kelly I'd send her a book and never did it.

    Dang!

  • You may remember I mentioned getting a KitchenAid early this year. WOWZA! My old Sunbeam, which was the gold standard 20 years ago, would take a minute or more to cream well softened butter and sugar. This thing literally takes about TEN SECONDS and I have to watch it so that it doesn't turn the stuff to mush.

    I've even started baking bread by "hand" and ditched my bread machine when I moved. I don't bake all my bread by a long shot, but it's a pleasure to enjoy a couple of fresh baked loaves now and then -- a pair doesn't last more than 12 hours around here.

  • My mother bought us a KitchenAid stand mixer as a wedding gift, it is quite a wonderful mixer you will enjoy many years of use (it beats egg whites like a dream).

    And chokecherries are little berrys with a ginormous pit in the middle. You pick them and boil them and strain them through a cheesecloth to extract the juice (it sounds like more work than it is). The juice (and berries) is (are) quite bitter so it always surprises me that the bears eat them (as evidenced by the er....evidence we've found). Makes quite a yummy jelly. But I did have to do a google search to figure out exactly what I had to do to get the chokecherry from bush to jelly jar

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