Everyone knows that in order to cook successfully, you need to have access to several things:  the proper ingredients for what you are going to make, the recipe to follow, and of course, the equipment to put it together.  From breads to pizza, cookies to cakes, mashed potatoes and many more of your staples of existence, you need a mixer. 

I have a Cuisinart hand mixer that, of course, is in storage with everything else, as I detailed in my last post.  In the interim, I picked up an old Sunbeam stand mixer that has seen better decades.  Only one beater actually fits in the mixer, if you try two, they jam up and fail to spin properly.  You can imagine what a pain this can be when you are trying to combine massive amounts of ingredients.

So, imagine how thrilled I was to find out that there was a contest, where the prize is one of the snappy new mixers from Hamilton Beach.  Putting one of those to work would make life a breeze in the kitchen. 

A Cowboy’s Wife is having a contest on her food blog! You can win a Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer and she’ll ship anywhere so everyone is eligible!

One can only hope that somehow my name comes up down the pipe and I can claim this mixer.  I cook far too much to have to spend time fighting with the archaic equipment available, and of course, the financial outlay for new stuff.