KitchenAid Artisan Mixer - What is Your Colour?

Received a surprise gift from my partner this morning. It was my long dream KitchenAid artisan mixer! I think it must be everyone's dream who loves baking to own this beautiful and colorful mixer. I have been always long for a KitchenAid mixer but due to it's price, I never get one for myself.

He bought this mixer from an Australian online retailer, Peter's of Kensington which their price is much lower than other retailer. Normally KitchenAid's price is pretty standard like Apple whereby their price has been controlled by the company. But to my surprise, after I log in to Peter's website, I found out that they having pretty good deal. What a great online retailer! Peter's is selling the mixer at $689 and shipping only $11 across Australia. Great deal! Normally artisan mixer is selling at about $749 retail price.

p/s: Just a reminder, you may saw some extraordinary cheaper price of this mixer at online. Those mixer might be running on US voltage which might not be same with your country. Always check on the power voltage before you order the mixer. You need a transformer which is not cheap if you buy a US artisan mixer to be used in country like Australia or Singapore or Malaysia.

My partner ordered an Apple Green artisan mixer for me.Initially he planned to order the classic KitchenAid red for me. But thought of too common, so he choose other color instead. The process of choosing which color for the mixer is never not easy as there are plenty nice color to choose from. There are few colors that I really favor such as the Buttercup, Pistachio, Classic Red, Tangerine and also Apple Green.

Kitchen Aid Artisam KSM150 Apple Green

While I was searching for more info on the mixer later today, I discover that KitchenAid Canada provide a simple function Colourology at their website that helps customer to determine which mixer color to choose based on some survey questions. I found out it pretty interesting and useful for people that undecided to choose which color to go for =).

That's all for now. Looking forward to try out new recipe with this beautiful baby. =)

Melbourne Good Food & Wine Festival

Hi everyone, winter is approaching Melbourne very soon =). Weather here has been really chilling and breezing but it does not stop us from our activities. There will be long weekend for everyone us here due to the Queen's birthday that falls on coming Monday and the same time the long waited Good Food & Wine Festival is finally here in Melbourne! Melbourne is the first stop for the festival and next follow by Sydney (June 28-30), Perth (July 19-21) & Brisbane (November 8-10).

If you guys never been attending to this festival before like me and a food and wine lover, do pay a visit as it really worth it. We had a great time at the festival today while sampling lots of nice food and beers and wines too!

Apart from sampling delicious food, we coincidentally went to the Barrilla booth with a initial intention to join the crowd to see the Italian chef, Chef Andrea preparing some delicious pasta. Learnt a few tips on handling pasta but never we know that after the chef finished cooking session, we are given a 20minutes for a hands on class at the kitchen at the booth prepared by Barilla. I was so excited about it and start getting ourselves ready to prepare exactly the same pasta (minus the taste) :p that chef  Andrea showed us earlier.

All the ingredients already prepared by Barilla staff and we are required to prepare a Casaresse with mussels and clams in Barilla's  Arrabbiata sauce. It was so fun cooking in the kitchen with 60 people with everyone has it's on stove, utensils and ingredients. It started with nervous as everyone was clumsy in the kitchen, sounds really like we are in the My Kitchen Rules. Haha! We really have great time cooking and at the end of the class we got to taste the yummy delicious cooked by ourselves and also received a Barilla's show bag with lots of goodies from them. Thank you Barilla! You made my day so special and meaningful =)

Final Output: Casaresse with mussels and clams in Barilla's Arrabbiata sauce

Barilla Show Bag

For the rest who have not been to the festival, do get to the website (http://www.goodfoodshow.com.au)  for more details. You can purchase the tickets online or you can buy at the site.