Santa came early this year!!!

Well, Santa was very generous this year in our house. We replaced the dishwasher that came with the house when we bought it a couple years ago. It was really old and yucky inside and the dishes started to not get as clean as they should. I was soooo shocked when my husband agreed to get the dishwasher I wanted!



We got a Kitchenaid and it is sooooo quiet and wonderful. It is stainless inside and out and I just love it. It has hi-temp scrub and sanitize rinse. It is amazing how excited I can get over appliances.

I also got another unexpected present. We had a crappy Krups panini grill that kept breaking....I literally returned it 3 times to Williams Sonoma and then found out that the manufacturer had re-designed the product due to so many problems with it. Anyway, I had already bought a Cuisinart Griddler so I used the credit at WS to get this:



Yes, that is a wonderful Keurig coffee machine. My hubby was skeptical at first because he usually drinks more that one cup in his travel mug and the Keurig is really a single serve machine. But once he made a couple cups in literally 20 seconds, he was hooked! It even comes with a re-useable filter, so you can use your own coffee (meaning, you don't have to buy the K-cups).

I really love this machine...I can have a cup of coffee in seconds. It totally rocks.

Anyway, we are officially on vacation tomorrow. I probably won't be online much. So, I wish everyone a happy holiday!

~Chef