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Is your dog driving you crazy?
Jan. 12th, 2019 08:17 pmThis week: Traffic was held up on my way to work Friday morning as, in a shameless Australian stereotype, we had to stop to let a wallaby hop round a roundabout.
Also this week: I made a chocolate cake with a crème fraîche filling. Quite nice. I had to make it. Simply had to. I bought a new mixer a couple of weeks ago, you see. The motor of my previous mixer died a couple of years ago, so I've been using a little hand mixer since then.
But it's nearly thirty years old and I'm always worried it will also run out one day. So I was in a department store and there were still sales on and there it was, a stand mixer that met my modest requirements (not too big, not too heavy, bright red), reduced from $300 to $100. I bought it.
And I hate it.
The first thing I made with it was a batch of choc chip biscuits. The mixer's bowl is so deep it can't reach the ingredients at the bottom, so it just sort of puddles them around on the top. I had to finish doing the biscuits with the hand mixer. This time, I used the small bowl from my old mixer, which worked, but it doesn't really fit so I had to hold it steady. Which sort of ruins the point of having a stand mixer. So there's a lesson for me about impulse purchases.
Also also this week: I paid my car registration. Freddy is a 1999 Ford Festiva, so he's, gosh, twenty years old this year. Happy birthday to him.
Also this week: I made a chocolate cake with a crème fraîche filling. Quite nice. I had to make it. Simply had to. I bought a new mixer a couple of weeks ago, you see. The motor of my previous mixer died a couple of years ago, so I've been using a little hand mixer since then.
But it's nearly thirty years old and I'm always worried it will also run out one day. So I was in a department store and there were still sales on and there it was, a stand mixer that met my modest requirements (not too big, not too heavy, bright red), reduced from $300 to $100. I bought it.
And I hate it.
The first thing I made with it was a batch of choc chip biscuits. The mixer's bowl is so deep it can't reach the ingredients at the bottom, so it just sort of puddles them around on the top. I had to finish doing the biscuits with the hand mixer. This time, I used the small bowl from my old mixer, which worked, but it doesn't really fit so I had to hold it steady. Which sort of ruins the point of having a stand mixer. So there's a lesson for me about impulse purchases.
Also also this week: I paid my car registration. Freddy is a 1999 Ford Festiva, so he's, gosh, twenty years old this year. Happy birthday to him.