{Old Miele Dishwasher on Bike Rack}

Okay, on December 29, the day after our New Miele Dishwasher got delivered, husband Pieter did go ahead and strap our Old Miele Dishwasher on our Toyota RAV4's Bike Rack...
We both did haul it out of the front door, it sat in the hall way and over this brick path to the car.

We were lucky that it worked out this way since otherwise we would have no means of transportation for dropping it off at the Recycle Center.
Yes, we have to drop off ALL our garbage ourselves.
We live just outside of the City Limits so there is no City Garbage Collection...
You can hire a private company that does that weekly but we live on a very strict budget and we don't like to have ALL garbage put together.
We recycle as much as we can by separating things!

Looking rather trashy...
But this is how we transport all our things, week after week.

Yeah, this was the culprit of our old October 19, 1998 Miele Dishwasher giving up...
I bet that in the USA and maybe also in Canada, a lot of people do have to drop things off at a recycle center.

{Our New Miele Dishwasher Arrived}

Well, as in every household, appliances do quit working and we need to replace them.

Such was the case with our Miele USA  dishwasher that we installed on October 19, 1998 so it had held up for quite a while.

We did manage to keep it going, a cycle took hours longer to complete and finally it no longer did drain.

So on December 28, 2015 the delivery truck rolled in and we helped unload our new Miele Dishwasher.

Yes, husband Pieter was a pilot car in our little Toyota RAV4, to guide this 18-wheeler into our subdivision. 

But we were happy, after Christmas and now we finally would get our new Miele Dishwasher!

Here it is, out of the crated box and in front of the defect one.

You can see a tea towel hanging over the chair, finally we would get relief from hand washing everything.

All excited!

ENERGY GUIDE looking really good!

It is an Energy Star appliance.

BUT... this one did not work!

Poor husband Pieter took it out and in about three times and we video taped the water flow, because the Miele people in Boca Raton, Florida thought there is not enough pressure or water volume.
Once they received the video, they were convinced.

They promised to ship another one...

That was not a happy ending of 2015!

Will be continued; stay tuned.

{RICED CAULIFLOWER}

A blogger friend from the UK, Daphne from the blog: Ivy, Phyllis and Me! posted on September 10 of 2014: CAULIFLOWER RICE ←click on hyperlink so I had to try this.

What a surprise to find at Trader Joe's already Riced Cauliflower!

Easy for browning the onion with garlic in olive oil, adding the Riced Cauliflower and done!

Added here Quinoa from Costco Wholesale and Beef-less Ground Beef from Trader Joe's 
Quick and healthy supper!

Have you already tried Riced Cauliflower?