beautiful new bowl :)

My mommie got me a gorgeous big dark brown ceramic bowl for making things like bread and pie in. I'm breaking it in with a batch of bread tonight!

pasta primavera, PS

I forgot that the awesome thing about the pasta primavera was how I cooked it! I don't have a steamer, but I wanted to steam the veggies. SO. I took a big pot and boiled the spaghetti in the bottom of it. Then I put my pasta strainer (which is metal) over the top and steamed the veggies right in it! When the veggies were done it was just time to drain the pasta, so I dumped the veggies, strained the pasta, and had a big meal with only two dirty dishes!!

Toys I want

Have I mentioned that I want a KitchenAid mixer? With a bread hook? And a pasta attachment? And a grinder/mill attachment?

I SOOOO WANT ONE!!

Also, Kitchen Santa, please bring me a wok and a vegetable steamer, and a thin metal spatula. And a biiig pot with a canning rack. :)

kitchen scale

Chris and I traded digital kitchen scales for Christmas. It was a very awesome present for her to have gotten for me! Today I weighed another awesome present (the giant bricks of chocolate that Alison got for me) and discovered that I have nearly a kilogram! Put another way, I have a pound and a half of chocolate --and that's with some already having been eaten.

*happy happy happy*

:D