Rubadubdub!

After much looking, reading and comparing, we bought a new washer and dryer yesterday. Nebraska Furniture Mart was running a huge sale and we found the pair I've been eyeballing at a good price. They'll deliver it on Saturday and we'll see if front load washers are the best things since sliced bread as they claim. I hope so! It'd be nice to see some water and time savings for sure.

I also purchased an accessory for my Kitchen Aid mixer. I've been wanting a juicer for a while since all the cooking shows sneer at bottled juices but I really didn't want yet another appliance to haul out, clean and store so I spotted the juicer addon for my Kitchen Aid while buying the appliances and picked it up. It's really cool! At $20, not too much of a wallet breaker. Seems to work great. It just plugs into the front connector and juices away! If you don't have a juicer already, Deb's Test Kitchen recommends it.

Thanks for the tip on Kohl's. I'll stop by on the way home tonight and see if they have a couple of the things I'm looking for. Boy, while we were at NFM, I wandered around their kitchen area. There are certainly some massive drool-worthy stoves and ranges. Since next in line for the house is a new stove or stovetop/oven, how have you found the smoothtop ranges? I'm pondering going to gas since it's so nice for temperature control. Are the smoothtop ranges like you have really good at temperature control or are they more like electric stoves?