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Thanks Riverside Len and Joan for your reports on hand mixers. I like my older Cuisinart (a 7-speed), so I'm glad that the beaters are available. It is more powerful than a smaller, older Kitchen Aid mixer that I keep at the Indiana house and will continue to keep as a back-up when w move there permanently. The Cuisinart came with a balloon whisk, as well as dough hooks. I had tried the dough hooks on the mixer that got replaced under warranty, and I agree with Joan: the mixer doesn't have enough power to work with dough. The model I replaced under the warranty had a beater that would not stay attached--a problem that developed over the course of less than a year. The replacement has done well.
From what people are saying, customer service might be slightly worse at Cuisinart than Kitchen Aid. One of my nephews wanted to have a Cuisinart ice cream maker repaired--he's pretty sure it's the compressor--but Cuisinart only wants to sell him a new one, so he is wary of buying any of their products.
I had a similar malfunction with black pepper. I was using a pepper grinder--one where the top is held down while grinding. It fell off and whole black peppers went into the soup. I fished out what I could, but that soup was still overly peppery. I discarded that pepper grinder and bought one with the grinder on the bottom.
I know that there is some kind of Harvest weekend, as well as an early Christmas one. I'm not sure if that is just for the regular businesses, but I will check into it this summer and suggest a farmer's market would be a nice addition if one is not included in those weekends.
When we move to Indiana this summer, I hope to sell some baked goods at the Farmer's Market. I've been checking it out the past couple of years, and I have some ideas of what might sell well. The only problem is that the farmer's market only runs from March until October--and I have lots of items that would go very well for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I have an extensive collection of Nordic Ware pans whose presence my husband will want me to justify. I did use all but one of the autumn pans this fall, and I'm just starting to use the Christmas and winter ones.
The town does not have a bakery, and even though the only grocery store attempted to upgrade its bread, it is not bread that I would eat. There are two local coffee shops, in different areas of town; one has some pastries that would be acceptable if I ever was not baking--as if that would happen!
My meatloaf, that I learned to make from my Mom, also has oats and an egg. With such a large family, it was also a way of stretching the meat in a healthy way. She liked to add an 8 ox can of tomato sauce, and sometimes even a bit of evaporated milk, along with onion, celery, and bell pepper. In addition to being a binder, I think that the oats help with the cholesterol from the meat and egg.
Once milk is cooked, I don't think that it would go bad. It should be able to sit out, just as many baked goods do that have milk products cooked in them.
Thanks Swirth for the link to a less expensive source.
A person who bought one of the gingerbread houses yesterday told me that she plans to freeze it, and when younger grandchildren come for Christmas, she will take it out and let them decorate it.
