kitchen small appliance, home decoratingYesterday afternoon my daughter was mixing up a cake and little mixer bit the dust. We've had it for years, so it wasn't surprising that this kitchen small appliance quit working, so today before I went to work, I hopped online and found a new one to order. The one I selected is the Black & Decker PowerPro® 250-Watt Mixer and just as technology has improved our consumer electronics, it has also improved kitchen small appliances. I'm really looking forward to getting this hand mixer to see how it works.

The product description says that it has a 250 watt motor which is quite strong for a kitchen small appliance. It also has a built in spatula to clean the sides of the bowl while mixing. I'm not sure how that works, but I can't wait to find out. I don't know what the first dish will be that I make with our newest kitchen small appliance, but I'm sure it will be good. It's so much fun to have new things for the kitchen.

We do most of our cooking at home instead of eating out. We are a pretty typical family and when the recession hit, we looked at ways to save money without sacrificing our quality of life. The first thing we did was look at how much we were spending when we went out to eat and found it was sufficient to consider investing in kitchen small appliances to make cooking our own meals quickly. After getting a new food processor and stick blender, we were able to make so many enjoyable meals at home.

I found this kitchen small appliance at Lucia's Store at http://www.luciasstore.com, a fun place to shop for the kitchen and home decorating. I really like online shopping because it saves me a lot of time, and very often, money, as well. There's something soothing about sitting in my home office making choices about the kitchen small appliances that we need to cook meals at home and imagining how many dishes the appliance could be used to make. I know our food processor has made it so easy to make cheesecake from scratch, and the bread blade is a great convenience for pizza dough and rolls.

All of us take our turns at cooking and we encourage experimentation and variety in our meals. I'm surprised that the kids enjoy cooking as much as they do, and I do everything I can to encourage them to keep on pitching in when we're cooking up our meals for the week. My daughter seems to like baking the best, while my son enjoys throwing together soups. He's the most intuitive of cooks and after following a couple of recipes, is now making up his own. Until our new kitchen small appliance comes, we'll be eating what's in the freezer so we can keep our commitment to saving money and improving our health by eating good food cooked at home.