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Skriven 2010-06-04 11:30:38 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 38563 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Dog gone, Kitchen Aid                                    [2]
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Hi Ruth,

>> I throw all my jeans in it (maybe 4 or 5 pair) on the two hour cycle..
>> works well.

> IOW, a 2 hour cycle should work for most of their clothes, linens, etc.

Yes, I think so.  I could do less with things I dry manually - like delicates,
etc.  The washer/dryer lets you wash only if you like, so I use it that way now
and again - in the winter, I do my washable sweater-shirts that way.

> KA

>> I use the old kitchenaid to make the pizza day before yesterday.  It
>> worked well.  It makes a bit of noise on the stir speed, but I can't
>> remember now if it always did that :)

> It may have & you forgot after you put it up.

I know :)  I watch for things like bad coverage of the ingredients on the
bottom of the bowl etc., and that seems fine....I saw a site that explains how
to 'regrease' your KA mixer, so I might consider that.  Then again I might
rather wait til we have some extra $$ and just get it done by a repair shop
(vbg).

>> in the kitchen, just to make things easier on me.. as long as the
>> landlord didn't mind.  The house in KY was a good example.  Put in a
>> whole kitchen floor there because they had an indoor/outdoor carpet on
>> the floor that was pretty yucky to look at and walk on, and clean..
>> and when the pipes froze that fist winter, and water got all over it,

> I'd have gotten rid of it as fast as possible too.  Kitchens and
> carpeting aren't usually compatible.

Exactly my feeling :)   I don't mind hardwood floors, but they are not my
favorite either.. you can't wax them much because of silly animals racing
through at breakneck speed and truly crashing into you and everything else
(g).. I'm not sure yet what we'll do with the floor in the kitchen here yet..
we've go so much to do to finish the walls and window.  And Ron hasn't been
feeling very well so he's mainly just working and letting the kitchen wait.  I
don't mind since I sure know what it feels like to not be up to par.  We'll get
it done eventually (g).

>> I could understand why it looked SO bad (g).  But sometimes you just
>> have to deal with the house as it is.. for any number of reasons.

> True. We looked at a lot of places that had more strikes against them
> than here.

Sure.. sometimes it takes looking around a bit to find one that has most
everything you need and want in a house.  When we got to Kentucky, our first
thought was to buy again, so we rented with an option to buy.  It was a huge
beautiful house, just built but in a housing community.. you know, ultra-modern
appliances and everything, landscaped yard, garage, brick exterior.. but we
couldn't stand some things about it. No privacy whatsoever..  We put up a
really nice mailbox and were told we weren't allowed to do that hahaha.. we had
to get one that matched everyone else's in the development from some shyster
contractor there.  It was huge and ugly (bg). That burned me up, but the kicker
was the attitude of some of the people in the development.  No one was 'good
enough' over there :)

That's when we looked around and finally found the really old historic house in
Louisville... It was huge and had so much character.. much like Mom's house in
Warwick. And after we fixed the floor, fixed the pipes that kept freezing every
year and did other improvements, we realized that we didn't have to be in
Kentucky to do what we were doing regarding work since Ron had been working at
home for maybe the last year or two.  That's when we moved back to NY (g).
Louisville itself was a neat place to be and live, but it was good to be back
home.

>> > Showing off where we've been. (G)  The tea towels have pictures of
>> herbs > & what to use them for so they're dual purpose.

>> Good idea :)

> If I remember to look at them. (G)

I know what you mean :)  I have a few that have neat recipes on them but forget
they're there often enough.

>> Yes :)  I think I know where mine is (lol)  The small one that uses
>> the bucket in the freezer works pretty fast though the ice cream is
>> very soft.  The big one makes ice cream more the type one can buy in
>> the store.

> All depends on which kind you want.

And how much of a mess you are willing to clean up (g).  The electric large
bucket one does get water all over the place sometimes.. and it can be really
heavy to lift when it's time to dump the ice and water, etc.  You layer tons of
ice in the large bucket one with salt which melts the ice while keeping the
water very very cold.. kind of a frozen slush.. so the mixture in the can in
the bucket can freeze.  As you know the frozen bucket one is a bit easier to
use :)

>> > We got the plates and the roller/cutters, no ravioli maker (yet) .

>> I remember :)  I bought my daughter the roller/cutter for her KA, they
>> get a lot of use out of it.  She doesn't have the ravioli maker
>> either, and since they weren't eating dairy, that was ok.

> We do eat dairy, but not a whole lot.

She made some really good mushroom ravioli one year for Easter.  They were
really good.  She brought them over with the sauce (not a red sauce) and some
of us had those, and some of us had regular ricotta raviolis with red sauce.

Take  care,
Janis

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