New Best Friends - Or CK makes out like a bandit for the holidays

[muck_a_luck]

My old grill and I have never been friends. My Dad and Mom constructed it for us in the first couple of days I was home from the hospital with The Barbarian. It worked OK, and I used it nearly every day all these five years, but I'll tell you a secret - I cleaned it TWICE. *shhhhh*

Anyway, I noticed that it was starting to corrode through the firebox a couple of weeks ago and figured it was just a small household disaster waiting to happen, so I warned Husband we needed to get a new one soon.

Yesterday, I went out and purchased this lovely creature.

We constructed it as a family yesterday. It's first outing today produced some pretty damned good chicken.

I cleaned it.

And I bought it a cover. Which is on it now.

Meanwhile, remember how I destroyed my wonderful, ancient, ugly yellow Kitchen Aid?

Well, I was bugging Husband ever since about replacing it. There have been sales and deals and he kept blowing me off. And I don't spend a couple hundred bucks on something until we are both in agreement.

I know what I'm getting for Christmas, because Husabdn DID spend more than a couple hundred bucks on something and then got worried it was the wrong thing. I am soon to be the proud owner of a Bosch Kitchen Machine. Husband did some research and figured out that this must be the best device for me. Never having touched it or met it in person, I think he is probably right! Cannot wait for it to arrive. I used some gift card money to buy the cookie paddles. Hoping for its first recipe to be the family babka recipe, second recipe to be Christmas cookies.

Finally, we are refreshing our 35 year old stainless, which is getting all rust-spotty. Lenox Butterfly Meadow Stainless will be under the tree for me. It's simple enough for Husband, but has a nice motif for me, and I had no idea stainless came in different qualities, but this stuff is 18/10, and I got hte serving pieces already for my birthday, and I can tell you that you can defintely eat the rock-hard ice cream directly from the freezer and these spoons could not care less. They WILL NOT be bending, I can tell you that!

Comments

[green_grrl]

QUEEN OF COOKING! That is you. :D

[muck_a_luck]

I KNOW! Hoping for a Christmas miracle and the arrival of The Bosch in time for cookie making. *crosses fingers*

[zats_clear]

Merry Christmas to you! and babka...yummy!

You will have to provide a detailed account of The Bosch (heretofore known in caps until you actually provide it with a proper name). I love kitchen toys, as you well know, and cannot wait to hear about it!

I am still hoping for a Big Green Egg once we move to Florida...but I do not have your 4am grilling requirements!

[muck_a_luck]

I was totally looking at Egg grills. But I wanted to do some research on how easy they really would be for me, and I ended up at this website. After reading their article on charcoal v. propane and their blind taste-testing, I decided that while the egg-type grills are quite intriguing, I did not need to go that route (especially at 4am).

The grill I bought got their website's silver medal for "Best in BBQ." Their article on propane grills here.