During those carefree days at university in Melbourne where most students from Malaysia was chewing away financial accounting standards and nodding off in taxation law lectures, W was having a ball with his fellows from the advertising and communications department doing assignments that made the rest of us green with envy.
W was also a well-known dinner kidnapper. He’d call to invite me over for dinner and when I arrive, the boys being boys, they would have done nothing for dinner so I’d end up cooking dinner for them! What lovely friends. One of those nights, W showed me his latest project, an assignment on “a really good looking piece of kitchen equipment'” in his words. That moment my lust for a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer was ignited. Each time one greeted me at the store, I would give it a pat and then wonder about which colour for that one day, when I will eventually.
Fast forward almost a decade later. That eventual day arrived, much earlier than expected. During a Sunday lunch at M’s, suddenly she offered to sell to me a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer as we were chatting over her white mixer preparing cheese tarts. While vacationing in Las Vegas, she couldn’t resist taking one home because it was 40% cheaper than the ones sold here in Kuala Lumpur though she already owned one. And so I left lunch with a silver Kitchenaid Stand Mixer!
Now I once again have a very good reason to dial up the heat in the oven as I leaf through page by page of Rose Bakery’s lovely tea time cake recipes.