Rachael and I just got the opportunity to use our Williams and Sonoma gift card, which was given to us by the Fuller family at Rachael's bridal shower. Originally I wanted to buy a meat grinder to attach to our new KitchenAid "Kick booty" mixer.
Instead the two of us decided it would be more stewardly of our gift to buy 2 cookbooks, one on cooking vegetarian meals and the other on how to host a cocktail party.
The two of us now knowing how to concoct a Mojito, can't wait to make them for company. What we didn't know as we found out from another book The Lazy Environmentalist, that by having one more body in your home puts off the equivalent heat of a 100w space heater for the same amount of time. Meaning heating a home would come much easier the more people who are invited and show up.
Those of you wishing to offset your carbon footprint and lower your heating bills could drop the thermostat from 72 (Rachael and I freeze our butts off at 65 degrees, but for a good cause) to a lower setting, and invite friends over for a cocktail party. If you truly wish to keep your costs low make it BYOB, although this kind of defeats the purpose of the cocktail party.
The Baker's KitchenAid Mixer Stats:
Color: gunmetal gray
Speed: 9000 RPMs
0-60 Chocolate Chunk Cookies from Scratch/ sitting: 3.7 seconds
Note: the only thing to make it look more intimidating would be a racing stripe and tailfins
Picture Left: Artist Rendering
