Mother's Day has the best Kitchen Aid sales everywhere, as the discount is from Kitchen Aid itself. Usually even less than Black Friday.
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I don't know what you want to spend but here is a manufacture refurbished one on ebay for $229
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KitchenAid-H...item1e7bda7702
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KitchenAid-H...item1e7bda7702
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Anyone here remember what ecto cooler tasted like? I tried to recreate it with some blue dew and orange juice, but realized that while it looks similar enough, I can't remember the taste at all.
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Tried the pizza again this weekend using the parchment paper, worked like a charm. I used AB's pizza dough recipe and it was good. It seems like last time I made it it was lighter, more airy. The dough this time was more dense. I have a sneaking suspicion that I fucked it up. It didn't make a huge difference except int he crust. If I had made the entire thing thinner instead of going for a crust it would have been better.
That's just how it goes when you work with flour. You have to adjust based on feel (too dry? too moist?), and that can comes down to things like humidity, how long your flour has been sitting on your shelf, how you store it, the brand, the time of year, etc. It takes repetition to learn how to adjust your recipe.
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Or you can be lazy and buy premade(not baked!) dough from your supermarket. Or you can be really fucking lazy and buy pita bread. I should be more upset at this, but it really doesn't taste that bad and it's super convenient. It makes weeknight pizza dinner quite manageable. Plus, it reduces the frequency of trips to Wegmans, we have pizza a lot. Wegmans itself is nice, but fuck everything else about that place. The prices, the layout, half the city that decided to go shopping at the same time as you, and for me, the 20+ minute drive vs 5 minutes to BJs.
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My wife makes "pizzas" sometimes with English Muffins. The kids think this is the best thing ever. I make amazing, from scratch pizza dough, and they're like, "meh, this is alright." she breaks out the English Muffins for pizza for lunch, and they think she's the greatest chef on the planet.
kids these days.
kids these days.
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When my kids get older we may do something like that. More likely I'll put their little asses to work making dough from scratch in the kitchen. But right now I like a softer crust because it is easier for young kids to eat. My kids could probably barely chew a bagel pizza or something like that.
I did have success with a storebought dough, some Brooklyn pizza company that sells it frozen. Shit is mad expensive though and it only costs like 30 cents worth of materials to make it.
I did have success with a storebought dough, some Brooklyn pizza company that sells it frozen. Shit is mad expensive though and it only costs like 30 cents worth of materials to make it.
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I've tried dough from scratch. The yeast I had were defunct, so it didn't turn out great. But I still entered the recipe on myfitnesspal, and I was disheartened to see how many more calories Alton's recipe is compared to Wegman's dough. For sake of comparison, I'm able to stretch one Wegman's dough ball over 4 small(10 inches?) pizza tins.
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Not really, I mostly just make what I make and they eat it or don't. Mostly they eat it, it is weird stuff they won't eat. Like rice and potatoes, the oldest hates that for some unknown reason. My experience is that kids get hung up on definitions. My daughter doesn't like "spicy" food, but she loves "seasoned" food. Same damn thing, you just call it something else. Hates rice, loves risotto. Etc.
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A favourite weekend activity for the family is to spend time on a Saturday making pizza dough, and partially baking them. Then the kids get to "decorate" their own personal sized pizzas at dinner time, and we finish them in the oven or on the grill (depending on season). I go back and forth between preferring the softer crust, and a thin, crispier crust.
All that to say, my kids like good, home made pizza, or crappy frozen pizza. Basically, they're pizza sluts.
We're the same way. We cook good food that we love. The kids are getting exposed to good food, developing their tastes, and, if they're hungry enough, they'll eat what gets put in front of them. I don't cook for the kids. I simply try to make good food. The kids (one in particular) are getting very interested in cooking. My five year old takes great delight in helping to cook. He even has his own little knife and cutting board, and is incredibly careful (under close supervision) to chop things up. In my experience, if the kids help cook the meal, they're a lot more likely to eat it, too.
My sister makes different meals for her and her husband and for each of their kids, depending on what they feel like. I'm not a fan of that approach to food - if you only make things your kids like, they're never going to increase their tastes. And teach them to put down enough of whatever is served to avoid being insulting when at a friend's house.
Bah. Parenting. Food. All that shit is so simple, no?
