Cuisinart -versus- Kitchen Aide Food Processor

I have had 2 food processors over the past 20+ years. One was just a basic GE or something, I don't remember, but I had it forever and then one day the motor went kabluey and I did without one for a very short period of time prior to purchasing my current Cuisinart Deluxe 11.

I use it for many things in cooking....turning graham crackers into crumbs for crusts or toppings, kneading bread dough, chopping veggies for Lumpia, slicing meats, grating cheeses, making sauces. I would say my food processor and electric skillet are probably the 2 most use counter top appliances in my home.

Awhile back I was slicing meat and the stem to my processor busted into pieces. No big deal, I sent Cuisinart $19.00 plus postage and was back on track. Last night however, I was grating cabbage for coleslaw and it worked and then just stopped. Never a good sign...

I checked to make sure it was plugged in, everything was tight when I realized a part of the top called the pusher was broken. So back to Cuisinart website to get another part. The only problem is this part costs $36 plus shipping and handling and I don't even know if that is the problem. If not, I will need to purchase another bowl for $39 to see if that will fix it.

I love Cuisinart, this thing is over the 10 year warranty limit and I have never had a problem until recently. Matter of fact, I own a Cuisinart hand mixer that is probably 20 years old or more.

So, what I want to hear from my readers, is if any of you have a Kitchen Aide food processor and what you think of them? How long have you have one? Which model do you have? Does it have soft buttons and how are those working out? Or, like me do you own a Cuisinart.

For those of you that know me and have been around awhile, you know I don't just toss things in the trash, I can't afford to. So, should I send for the lid and see if that fixes it or should I just purchase a new food processor?

The other thing that concerns me from last night is that when the food processor started the first time, none of the buttons had been pushed...thank you Jesus my fingers weren't in it and that has never happened.

I don't get the little processors because when I grate cheese, I grate a ton of cheese, same with cabbage, etc.

My Newest Project

All is not totally lost. I want you all to know I haven't thrown in the towel totally yet and I am working on a new quilting project. Let me rephrase that, I have been working on this for several weeks now and here it sits. I loved this Easterish, baby chicks and lamb print and decided to make a baby quilt with it.

However, when the main body of the quilt was finished, I felt the print in the middle was flat had no dimension to it so I took out my fabric puff paints and embellished it a bit and now it looks much nicer.

The blue border is a flannel barnyard print with lambs on it and then the dotted fabric is a cotton print with colors that blend in well with the panel. I am going to try to finish adding the outer border of dotted print today.

I am aware the date on them is in the future. I have a new camera and my granddaughter set the date and it doesn't bother me, so I haven't changed it as of yet. I have bigger things to concern myself with, but I mention it here because for some reason it really bothers others. Go figure??

I just wanted everyone to know I am still working on things, but I believe last year, I burnt myself out working on so many projects for those in need, that I forgot to take care of me and thus created a stew for myself that I need a very long spoon to crawl out of this bowl...but I will!

Make It Monthly

If you are looking to get a heads up on Christmas gifts this year (I know its early) head on over to Vals blog at Yarnigras and join her Make it Monthly list and make a gift a month. It is a way to commit to doing something fun and at the end of the year, you will have 12 gifts done!

Friday Funnies

No, trust me I am not starting up a new blog hop. It is just that today is Friday and last night while baking a fresh apple pie, the kids and hubby were having such a great time with the apple peels from the little electric peeler I purchased at a yard sale, I thought I would post them this morning.

I didn't realize when I purchased this little tiny peeler from the neighbor that it would peel apples so quickly or that it would peel them with these extremely long and very thin strands of apple peelings. Who knew there were over six feet of peels on an apple? Certainly not me, but last night it provided not only a great snack, but loads of family funnies!

Here is silly girl eating what she termed last night as 'Appleghetti,' she went so far as to say she needed to have a jar of applesauce for the top of it like spaghetti and some Cinnamon for Parmesian cheese. You can see she has this wonderful imagination!

Then my hubs comes in from carrying wood in for the night and he sees her and decides he wants some. However, it wasn't until he held it up that we realized these strings of apple were longer than he was and that is six feet!

Of course there was some mention of the Lady and The Tramp picture but of course even if that happened (which it didn't), you would never catch it on camera. :)

To really get a sense of how much peelings there were, the silly girl set a bowl and a fork out as if it were dinner. As I said, I have never seen apple peelings gone so quickly and between all of them, they ate this entire bowl full.

Of course all of this fun was so I could make a mile high apple pie. While the top crust didn't come out looking perfectly pretty...is was pretty tasty. I brushed the top with some milk and sprinkled it with Cinnamon sugar before popping it into the oven. I am sure hoping it is delish as Rachel Ray would say as it wasn't done until the kids went to bed so hubs and I decided to wait until they could share a piece before we

cut into it!

Bible Study is No More

To the few of you who wanted to participate in my on line Bible study there was just not enough interest for me to take on another blog even if it was to glority God. I am sure everyone is just so busy right now, trying to get things done for the New Year they just don't have time to do another bloggy thing and that is okay.

Right now I am working on a Bible Study with my church and will continue to do so.

I am also working on some personal issues of my own and may not blog as frequently as you are used to seeing me blog, but when I have a project done or something to say I will come back.

It appears to me I am going through some junk that needs to be gone through and God is good bringing me the right people in my pathway to remove the years of stuffing and bring the happiness back into my life.

Right now I am in a period of healing and I must take it one day at a time as it comes!

Great Gummies -VitaFusion Adult Gummy Vitamins

I am and always have been somewhat of a medical oddity from the time I was small and they discovered one of the valves didn't close to my heart (in 1958 it was a HUGE thing), to having pneumonia many times in junior high and never once running the teeniest bit of a temperature, to broken bones they can't explain.

What is worse I think for the doctors than myself is the fact my body has such horrible reactions to many different types of medications....I am allergic to many antibiotics and pain medications, well lets just say the one and only pain medication I could take in moderation has been banned and is no longer available.

However, worse than those seem to be vitamins. Yes, you read that right, plain simple vitamins. From the tiny One A days to Centrum for Women to Geritol, my body dislikes them all. The doctors nor the vitamin companies I have written to seem to have an answer...I take them with or without food, morning, noon or night...I get dizzy, break out in a sweat and then become extremely nauseous.

Finally, out of desperation, I picked up a bottle of Vitafusions MultiVites Gummy Vitamin for Adults which have 200% the required daily dose of Vitamin D. They also contain no wheat (gluten), milk, soy, eggs or peanuts.

They are doing great. I can take them on an empty of full stomach in the morning, with or without my NSAID and I am doing great. No side effects and for me this is amazing. While they are a bit short in some of the vitamin areas like only 50% for Vitamin C, I don't mind because I take a chewable Vitamin C as well.

These gummies are made by Northwest Natural Products up here in Washington state out of Vancouver, the same company that for years has made Gummy Critters that I give to my grands along with their amazing and awesome Immune C I give to them during the school year and I believe it is what keeps them from getting the flu and colds that go around.

They also have Gummies for women, for the plus 50 crowd like myself and more. To check out these wonderful vitamins, head on over to their website at: http://www.nnpvitamins.com/ and take a look around.

If you are like me and haven't been able to digest vitamins well, these may be your answer.

*This is a non-paid, non-sponsored review. NNP did not contact me to talk about their products. This is a product review based on my own experience with the product in an attempt to share with my readers something that works for me and that I believe in.**

Hubby Looses Cell Phone In Snow

To set this video up which is very short, you need to realize that we live in the direct path of the snow storm that slammed into Seattle, however, it slammed into us, a coastal town with 13"-18" of snow or a foot to almost 2 feet of snow.

My husband has a job where rain, shine or snow he has to be at work and no he isn't the post man.

He walked outside this morning and his phone dropped, he couldn't find it and while it was ringing in the snow, the ringing is loud and surrounding...lucky for him it lights up when it rings so he was able to find it!