The Mixer Bible: Over 300 Recipes For Your Stand Mixer | Meredith Deeds, Carla Snyder

The Mixer Bible: Over 300 Recipes For Your Stand Mixer | Meredith Deeds, Carla Snyder | Breville Toaster

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	The Mixer Bible: Over 300 Recipes For Your Stand Mixer Meredith Deeds, Carla Snyder Robert Rose, 2005 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 51 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The essential companion guide for any stand mixer.

A stand mixer is an indispensable tool in the kitchen. Its attachments and accessories make a stand mixer the quintessential food preparation machine-for everything from grinding meat to making pasta to kneading dough.

The Mixer Bible has 300 recipes designed for the stand mixer and its attachments. These outstanding recipes range from appetizers to homemade sausages to divine baked desserts and treats. Here's a sampling: Appetizers: Mediterranean Tart with Goat Cheese and Roasted Vegetables, Cheese Straws, Hot Spinach Dip Soups: Sweet Potato Soup, Coconut and Ginger Soup, Old Fashioned Chicken and Noodle Soup Main Dishes: Turkey Pot Pie with an Herbed Crust, Herbed Cheese Ravioli, Scallops with Asian Noodle Salad Sides: Scalloped Potatoes with Caramelized Onions, Zucchini Pancakes, Butternut Squash Casserole Sausage: Country Pork Sausage, Chicken and Apple Sausage, Chinese Pork Sausage with Five-Spice Powder Pasta: Lemon and Black Pepper Pasta, Pumpkin Pasta, Gluten-Free Pasta Breads: Cinnamon Rolls, Walnut Potica, Chocolate Chip Macadamia Bread Cookies: Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies, Deluxe Lemon Bars, Pumpkin Spice Cookies Desserts: Decadent Chocolate Mousse, Pear Frangipane Tart, Lemon Blueberry Trifle Ice Creams: Peach Sorbet, French Vanilla Ice Cream, Coconut Ice Cream Sauces, Condiments and Extras: Cinnamon Applesauce, Tomatillo Salsa, Whipped Horseradish Cream

The Mixer Bible will become a standard cookbook reference for home cooks.

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Off to a Great Start!

I'm three recipes into this book, and it's delivering. I tweaked the Banana Walnut Bread into Banana Hazelnut Muffins and they turned out great. Lots of helpful all-around cooking/baking tips as well as informative instructions that relate specifically to using a stand mixer, as well the quirks of the various attachments (and when/how to use them). I'm looking forward to receiving my bonus KitchenAid food grinder so I can start making my own homemmade sausage and burgers with some of the recipes in this book. A great book to pair with a KitchenAid stand mixer gift, as my mom did for my birthday!

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Breville Toaster

Our old 4 slice toaster died, and being there are only two of us, we decided to downsize. Already had a Breville juicer that we are happy with and relied on that as a recommendation. New toaster is very attractive, easy to clean and use, and makes great toast!

Solid recipes - excellent use of attachments

The recipes in this book are just average. It has a large mix of recipes, so the choices are limited, so don't buy this book if you are looking to make only certain kinds of things (e.g. just pastries).

Cons: few photos, some hard to find ingredients, slanted towards attachments

Pros: mixer/attachment specific information, bread recipes, ravioli recipes

I have the ice cream maker (get Ben and Jerry's book instead), slicer/shredder, and pasta roller attachments. I really wanted to make ravioli - this book has EXCELLENT info on the roller and several different pasta recipes (orange pasta, spinach pasta and the basics...). The pasta recipes here have worked much, much better than ones I have tried on epicurius and cooks.com. However, for me, the sheer number of ravioli recipes was worth it - they're excellent. On the flip side, this part of the book would be useless to you (as is sausage for me) if you don't have the pasta roller or don't want to roll your own manually.

If you do not have any attachments whatsoever, I recommend Reader's digest Low-Calorie cook book, which really surprisingly has some incredibly savory recipes appropriate for every meal/course.

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