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Venison Burgers on Home-made Whole Wheat Buns.

Amy’s dad gave us some venison that I’ve been wanting to put to use. I thought I’d make myself a venison burger for lunch a few days ago but didn’t really fancy it on Wheat or Italian bread. Our new KitchenAid mixer has us looking for every opportunity to put it to use so I looked up a recipe for home-made hamburger buns. My simple lunch turned into a very large dinner hours later.

We generally eat whole wheat bread much more often than white bread, so I altered the recipe and used mostly whole wheat flour. I thought I’d write a little more about this experience instead of just posting my results as working with whole wheat has been a little difficult and I’d like to share what has worked for us.

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KitchenAid Professional 5 Plus

Both Amy and I have tried our hands at making home made bread over years and have had some decent results. Amy’s zucchini bread was exceptionally good this year with our home grown zucchini. Although we really enjoy home-made bread, and like the idea of knowing all the ingredients, it has been a chore to make the standard type breads (white and wheat for regular use) using our Sunbeam mixer. While the Sunbeam does the initial mixing of ingredients just fine, it just can’t handle the kneading, and its something that neither of us enjoy doing by hand.

We’ve been considering getting a nice KitchenAid mixer for about a year now. Along with the ability to knead bread doughs, we like the idea of using the attachments to process our garden vegetables. I am particularly interested in the Fruit and Vegetable Strainer to make tomato sauce with all of those beautiful Roma Tomatoes, and Amy would sure put the Slicer / Shredder attachment to good use making our salads.

We can’t afford to get the attachments right away, but we finally bit the bullet and ordered our stand mixer last week. The KitchenAid Professional 5 Plus Stand Mixer arrived yesterday just before Amy got home from work, so I had just enough time to get it unpacked, inspected, and washed before she arrived. We dove right in and started mixing like mad people .

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