A Christmas Gift

For Christmas my father-in-law gave me a Kitchenaid!

It's green apple :)

I put one on our wedding registry but it was never purchased. When Steve and I stood in Bed Bath Beyond deciding how to use our wedding giftcards, he was shocked that I wanted to spend $$$ on a mixer. So when I opened this beauty on Christmas morning I was delighted :)

Since we had Christmas in Chicago I waited until we returned to my mom's house in Northern Virginia to start putting this machine through its paces. I was crushed when I turned it on and it sounded weird (like something was lose). I packed it up and waited until we returned to Norfolk to call Kitchenaid, (by this time it didn't work when turned on); they were happy to send me a new one. YAY for Customer Service. I thought my troubles were over. The new one came so I took it out and plugged it in-no weird noise! I then started to make cookie dough (basic, what this thing is made to do), the butter made the top part jump up and down and it sounded like it was about to die trying to go through butter-room temperature butter! I stood in my kitchen disgusted/disappointed with what was suppose to be an "amazing"mixer, so I called Kitchenaid Customer Service again. Once I explained the situation and that this was my second mixer (and the old one was still in my kitchen waiting to be dropped off at FedEx) Kim asked me to get a dime and screwdriver. Odd but I went with it. I put the dime in the mixer and turned it on. Nothing happened, so Kim had me adjust a screw on the mixer and try again... the dime slowly moved around the bottom of the bowl. It turns out that the mixer was never adjusted in factory (like it should have been!). I made cookies this weekend....cold butter, no problem.

I just made home made fresh whip cream for my hot chocolate....I'm loving this thing!