Bump and grind it baby! - ThinnerTimes

lealphachienne · 10-01-2004, 07:38 PM

Now that depression week is over, I think I'm going crazy. Last weekend, we bought a new KitchenAid Professional 6 mixer. This thing weighs 25 lbs, holds 6 quarts, and has a 525 watt motor. You can get attachments that makes pasta, grinds wheat into flour, and many other uses! There's just the 2 of us, combined eating of about 1 1/2 cups of food, and we have a mixer that can knead 7 cups of flour into bread! So far this week, I've baked 3 loaves of bread and a triple batch of peanut butter cookies. It makes a difference using a good mixer. The dough/batter is smoother and better mixed. The cookies were perfect. I only got to eat one, the rest fed the crowds at work. It can be quite soothing to run the mixer as it gently bumps along. This is going to be one fun holiday season! Maybe I'll enter a cook-off or two.

HapBird · 10-02-2004, 03:24 PM

Wow! Sounds like an awesome machine!

Now, then - guess you'll have to become a professional chef and cook stuff for everyone on this forum... you'll get rich!

Karen Wright · 10-02-2004, 08:02 PM

Yuuummmmmm.....cookies!!!!

lealphachienne · 10-03-2004, 06:34 AM

We made 24 cinnamon rolls yesterday. I had one bite, he had two, and the rest will go with me to work. I use the most natural ingredients I can find, and have control over how much to use. That allows for some yummy eats that is healthier than what you can buy at the store.

HapBird · 10-03-2004, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by lealphachienne

We made 24 cinnamon rolls yesterday. I had one bite, he had two, and the rest will go with me to work. I use the most natural ingredients I can find, and have control over how much to use. That allows for some yummy eats that is healthier than what you can buy at the store.

Can ya make 'em without sugar, and maybe with partly whole wheat? So we can eat 'em without guilt? (You ARE going to sell them to us, aren't you?) Or would that adaptation make them taste like the 1960s vegetarian-hippie-whole-foods whole wheat bombs?

lealphachienne · 10-03-2004, 08:36 PM

I've tried to alter recipes before and it doesn't seem to come out right. There's a certain science involved that brings the ingredients together just right so it's yummy. Mess with nature and substituting too much unnatural stuff makes it taste icky, like those crazy energy/protein/low carb bars out today. Do they really taste like chocolate or peanut butter? More like cardboard and grit to me. It depends on the recipe how far you can make changes without affecting taste or texture. Now, I have something to bring to the potlucks!