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If you really want to make an impression, fill a cooking void with a small appliance or three. There's nearly no kitchen that can't use an extra slow-cooker, can opener, hand mixer, waffle maker, induction burner, microwave oven, meat grinder, stand-up mixer, immersion blender, vacuum sealer or electric roaster.

Our friends and sponsors at Culinary Kitchen have a beautiful showroom in their new location at 7222 N Western Ave. that's at least triple the size of the old one and includes every conceivable cooking apparatus from smallest to largest.

If you want to blow away the cook on your list, Culinary Kitchen has retro-look ranges with cutting-edge technology, ovens with the ability to cook a monster turkey to perfection in less than an hour and devices once reserved for restaurant kitchens and now made with the home kitchen in mind.

Other hot spots for kitchen outfitting include International Pantry in Norman; Gourmet Gallery in Edmond and northwest Oklahoma City; Bed, Bath and Beyond; and Williams Sonoma.

Source: NewsOK.com

by Pazsaz

The Kitchen Aid Professional 600 has a powerful motor that is crafted for commercial-style performance, the direct drive, all-steel gear transmission delivers unyielding power for professional results. The mixer can effectively mix up to 14 cups of all-purpose flour per recipe and produce up to 8 pounds of mashed potatoes. The Soft Start mixing feature helps minimize ingredient splatter and flour puff with gentle acceleration to selected speed after start-up. Electronic Speed Sensor monitors operation to maintain precise mixer speed. Commercial-style motor protection automatically shuts off the mixer when overload is sensed to protect the motor. Durable all-steel gears provide reliable service. The mixer includes a 6-quart-capacity stainless-steel mixing bowl with a contoured handle, as well as a professional wire whip, a burnished flat beater, a spiral dough hook, and a one piece pouring shield. Its multipurpose attachment hub with a hinged hub cover flips open to allow for easy installation of attachments. The Professional 600 Series bowl-lift design raises the bowl into the mixing position, and its solid, truly seamless one-piece motor head design is easy to clean and comes in a variety of fashionable colors. We are giving away one Kitchen Aid Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixer, retail value $499.99. To enter, completely completely fill in and submit the entry form at http://contest.pazsaz.com/contest5.html between January 17, 2012 and April 30, 2012. You must be at least 18 years old to enter and a resident of the United States or Canada. Incomplete or incorrectly filled out entries will be disqualified. Complete contest rules may be found at http://contest.pazsaz.com/crules5.html....

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by Elle

Sometimes I get slightly more creative like this last time. I wanted to cook up some Irish steel cut oats and use them in the dough but the tin was almost empty. Looking in the pantry I found the spelt flakes which I add to the muesli when the package seems to have too much in the way of dried fruits and not enough grain. I've never made bread dough with cooked spelt flakes but I know that Astrid, fellow Bread Baking Babe over at Paulchens Foodblog loves spelt and adds it to most of her bread, so that's what I did. The rest of the bread beyond the spelt was still pretty simple: bread and whole wheat flour, salt, water, dry yeast and a bit of honey. I made enough dough for two loaves. One was in a smaller pan and it rose higher. I gave that one to Grandma Loyce since she loves freshly baked bread but says she doesn't have the bread making gene. The other has been enjoyed as toast and it does make a fantastic toast! Punch dough down and turn out onto a floured board. Knead lightly a few times...

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