We have a nice Kitchen Aid blender, that has a whisp and I think, regular beaters. I got a new food processor that includes a dough setting. It's actually quite nice. A video I watched where a guy made great looking grilled pizza was interesting. He put the ingredients in his food processor and only ran it a little while. I think I'm going to make a half batch and just use the food processor dough setting one time and see how that works. I have a bottle of bread machine yeast, but the Fleischman's website FAQ/help section notes that you can use either. In fact, the bread recipe was from their site. Admittedly, I punched the dough down after it rose (rookie mistake in this situation). It also had a quite hard crust, even though I had our oven set right on 400 degrees, and baked it between 25-30 minutes. I didn't get to knead it as well as I probably should have as I had a cut finger and did a lot of it one-handed until my son could track down a glove from my EMT stuff in my truck. While it tasted dry and "floury" and was tough, the pooches didn't seem to mind. Anyway, I'm baking some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies tomorrow. Hopefully, they'll turn out well. I'll keep you updated!

Chowser, need your advice: I made my first batch of bread in my food processor (has a dough setting). Didn't turn out that well. The dough setting has a 4 light timer that seems to be about 2 minutes. I added a little flour at a time per the recipe, each time running it through the bread cycle. I got doughy (pardon the pun) tasting bread that didn't rise as much as I thought it would. Did I over do the cycles...should I have just dumped it all at once and done one cycle? In a grilled pizza video I have, he just runs the dough through one time. Help is appreciated. Steve