I am annoyed that I can’t find the box of chopping and slicing blades for my food processor. I made (sugar free & reduced fat) cheesecake this weekend and had to use a wimpy old hand mixer.

And I love my mixer, which is why I order one proactively; heave forbid I be a week without my mixer!

I saw the red, but it just isn’t me. It was cobalt blue or white on white.

I’m hoping that the Artisan will have a better low power setting than my classic. The lowest speed is just a little too fast, and since I’m too lazy to get out the pouring shield, I always end up with flour everywhere.

Oh, if you purchase nothing else for your Kitchen Aid mixer, buy a second bowl. I inherited an old old bowl from my mother, but when I’m baking multiple things, that second bowl is the most wonderful thing in the entire world.

We lurvz it, we do!

I had put a Kitchen Aid Mixer on my wishlist and picked out a couple colors that I liked. When my parents bought it for me for Christmas, however, they bought it at Walmart and it was the basic white. The sweetness of the gift and the extreme usefulness of the mixer make it quite OK, but I do look back on the color selection dilemma with fondness.

I was just looking at the pasta roller attachments online this morning. It’s *such* a useful machine!

And it’s not the green that’s the problem, it’s the terra cotta. Which I honestly have been thinking of changing almost as soon as we finished painting it. (We put up a chair rail and painted the wall below the chair rail terra cotta to hide all the cat footprints where Kat comes tearing up the basement stairs and then manages to get all four paws on the kitchen wall at once as he makes the turn into the living room.)

But I think I am glad I choose the cobalt blue. It’s such a gorgeous color.

I think it’s fabulous you picked the color you loved.