The Superbowl is just around the corner and you are going to want to have the ultimate experience. Our sales rep Josh Davis stopped by Chicago’s WCIU’s “You & Me This Morning” and explained some great TV enhancements to amplify your football party fun!
All the products showcased by Josh Davis can be found in our audio/speaker section on Abt.com.
Yesterday we blogged about the great deal on the KitchenAid stand mixer. Not sure if it’s right for you? Well, below we’ve compiled a list of some amazing recipes you can make with your KitchenAid mixer. If these mouth watering goodies don’t convince you that you need this mixer, nothing will! Some recipes will require additional pieces for your KitchenAid mixer, but those are worth the additional investment.
Italian Sausage
Ingredients
Preparation
*You may make sausage with fresh ground pork from your butcher or supermarket. Toss with spices as instructed below, and then skip to step 4 below, stirring wine into ground pork and continue as directed.
1. Place pork on a metal baking sheet and freeze 20 minutes.
2. Combine salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic, onion powder, paprika, marjoram, rosemary and thyme in small bowl. Sprinkle mixture over pork and toss to coat evenly.
3. Process one third of pork at a time in food processor (return remaining pork to freezer) until coarsely ground, or run pork through the KitchenAid Food Grinder attachment fitted with coarse grinding plate. Transfer ground pork to large bowl and place in freezer; repeat with remaining pork.
4. Remove ground pork from freezer. Pour wine over ground pork. Stir vigorously with wooden spoon until well combined.
5. Assemble and prep KitchenAid Sausage Stuffer attachment, greasing nozzle with shortening. Slide prepared casings onto nozzle tightly. Tie off end of casing with butcher’s twine. Follow manufacturer’s directions for stuffing sausage into casings. Twist sausage into smaller links as desired and refrigerate or freeze until ready to use.
Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Preparation
1. Place margarine and vanilla in KitchenAid Stand Mixer bowl. Attach bowl and flat beater to the KitchenAid Stand Mixer. Turn to Speed 6 and beat about 2 minutes, or until mixture is smooth.
2. Gradually add 3⁄4 cup sugar and beat about 11⁄2 minutes longer. Add eggs and beat about 30 seconds. Stop and scrape bowl.
3. Turn to STIR Speed. Gradually add cream of tartar, baking soda, nutmeg, salt and flour to sugar mixture. Mix until well blended, about 1 minute.
4. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets, about 3 inches apart. Bake at 400°F for 6 to 8 minutes. Sprinkle with remaining sugar while still hot. Remove from baking sheets immediately and cool on wire racks.
Ricotta Ravioli
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Preparation
Right now, when you purchase select KitchenAid stand mixers, you can get up to $40 off by mail-in-rebate as well as a 1-year subscription to Food & Wine OR Travel & Leisure. These KitchenAid stand mixers are rated at the top in their category and can help you make anything from basic cookie recipes to more complex pasta recipes. Check out our full line of KitchenAid mixers and get started.
The Pew Research Center released information about last year’s tablet sales. According to the latest survey, 19 percent of all adult Americans now own some form of tablet, which is double the figures from a poll conducted in mid-December. E-reader ownership, meanwhile, increased by exactly the same margin over this period, jumping from 10 percent to 19 percent.
Tablets are certainly on the rise and they are slowly becoming replacements for laptop computers. Do you have a tablet? What do you think is easier?
The NFL Playoffs are in full swing and that means the Superbowl is just around the corner. February 5th, 2012 is the big day and a big TV is just to solution. At Abt.com browse our flat-screen TV section and choose the best size to watch all the Big Sunday Action!
Apple is looking to make school a bit easier for students by providing iPad users with accessibility to school/university textbooks. Apple has been working with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson PLC and McGraw-Hill – publishers responsible for 90 percent of U.S. textbooks – to develop digital textbooks that can be offered on the iPad, Reuters reports. The digital textbook market is estimated at $8 billion, and Amazon and others are already tapping into it.
Starting today, Nintendo will release free demos of 3DS titles on the handheld’s eShop. Among the first demos 3DS owners can download are Capcom’s horror title Resident Evil: Revelations and Sega sports game, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games on Jan. 26. Other titles, including Ubisoft action game Rayman Originsand Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D from Konami, will also have demos for 3Ds. Nintendo also says they’ll regularly update the eShop with fresh demos as they become available.
If don’t have a Nintendo 3Ds, check them out at Abt.com.
This year’s 2012 International CES was the largest in the event’s 44-year history, with a record numbers of attendees, exhibitors and show floor space, according to its owner and producer, the Consumer Electronics Association.
Initially the figures are projected at 153,000, including more than 34,000 international visitors, according to CEA, which conducts an independent audit of attendance at the International CES.
CEA estimated that more than 20,000 new products were launched at the 2012 CES, which also featured top executives participating in keynote sessions, including those from Mercedes, Wal-Mart, Intel, Ford, Verizon, Ford, eBay, GE, Google and Facebook.
What exactly is a “marketing lagniappe”? According to Stan Phelps, author of the new book entitled “What’s Your Purple Goldfish?“, a lagniappe is the Creole word for “the gift.” Phelps has an amazingly smart and simple, concept; provide a little something extra for your customers… surprise and delight them, and you’ll get more back than any print ad or cold call could possibly deliver.
It’s that unexpected surprise that’s thrown in for good measure. ”What’s Your Purple Goldfish?” collected information the last several years from contributors who forwarded news and information about retailers and businesses that go the extra mile for their patrons and consumers. Yours truly, Abt Electronics was mentioned in the crop of stellar businesses for making the experience at Abt Electronics unforgettable. We would like to thank Stan Phelps and the individuals involved in this book.
A niftly little device showcased at CES 2012 was by a company called Inergie and their product is a PocketCell. The PocketCell is a lightweight and compact rechargeable battery bank that will add hours of life or charge virtually any mobile device including iPads, iPhones, Android, and Blackberry smartphones, iPods, media players, and more than 10,000 other portable devices. There are five built in protections against unstable voltage, so you can be confident your digital world won’t burn out in your hand. Innergie claims that users can get an extra 4.5 hours of iPad usage and about 15 more hours on your cell phone.
