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I Love This Sh!t #3

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This is my Kitchenaid Professional Stand Mixer. It is not shit, it is THE shit, and I love it. Seriously, I cannot enumerate the ways this marvelous contraption has improved my life...It is more than a mere mixing device, it is a compact, accommodating kitchen assistant, and I love it with a giddy sort of fervor. As with all love affairs, there’s a story with tragedy, drama and pain.  No, not really, more like inconvenience, sore shoulders and whining. I’ve always enjoyed baking, making cake for parties, cookies, and pumpkin bread, oh the pumpkin bread (more on this family obsession later). Baking was fun, quick, relatively easy and required only a hand mixer to whip out a boxed cake mix, or some pre-packaged bread. Then Badger came along…Badger and her irritating, inconvenient milk and soy allergies. Being allergic to milk and soy guarantee that there are NO pre-packaged mixes from which to rapidly and magically produce anything really. Well, there ARE a few allergen-fre...