processing PROCESSING!!!
I got a food processor today!!! I got a KitchenAid 740 CR. It's my chrome plated kitchen ninja, and my one true love. You should see what it does to garlic. =D In celebration, I made Black Bean Mango Salsa, Black Bean Veggie Chili, and a whole heck ton of brown rice in my (also new) rice cooker! I love my new rice cooker *almost* as much as I love my food processor. It's amazing to me to just toss water and rice into the thing and have it do it's own thing, perfectly cooking brown rice all on it's own and then keeping it warm until I want it! And as a person who loves some rice and beans, it's amazing to not have to worry about burning it, or it being too wet.
My chili involved dark chocolate. 85% cocoa content dark chocolate. And it made it DELICIOUS!!! The recipe I got from The Cafe Brenda Cookbook, which was recommended to me by a friend from the cities. I met this friend in Providence, so sadly none of my Twin Cities people are likely to know her. She's the director of theatre for the South St. Paul High Schools. In any case, we met when she visited Brown to look at their directing program, nerded over food stuff, and she recommended some cookbooks to me which turned out fantastically, of which The Cafe Brenda Cookbook is one. Her friend Brenda owns the Cafe and published the Cookbook. So that's neat too.
Geoff liked the chili. So points there.
Tonight, just so I could show Geoff how it worked, I chopped up a clove of garlic I didn't really need. Just so we could watch the blades go nuts and chop stuff up. =D
Not only does it chop, but it slices, grates, and kneads dough. It will puree, I believe, if needed. Potentially even whip. Most importantly though, it warms the cockles of my heart. Maybe even the sub-cockle area. We may never know.
New plans for the processor involve making even MORE salsa, but making it spicier by adding more peppers. Other plans include making my own hummus. Or chummus. Or hommous. Or hamhouse. Homsar? Jaerb!
Basically, I will make delicious things. Delicious, delicious things. Making salsa is SO EASY. You don't even really have to chop. You just chuck everything in, pulse the blades a couple of times, and TA-DA! Salsa.
Anybody got any good food processor requiring recipes?
My chili involved dark chocolate. 85% cocoa content dark chocolate. And it made it DELICIOUS!!! The recipe I got from The Cafe Brenda Cookbook, which was recommended to me by a friend from the cities. I met this friend in Providence, so sadly none of my Twin Cities people are likely to know her. She's the director of theatre for the South St. Paul High Schools. In any case, we met when she visited Brown to look at their directing program, nerded over food stuff, and she recommended some cookbooks to me which turned out fantastically, of which The Cafe Brenda Cookbook is one. Her friend Brenda owns the Cafe and published the Cookbook. So that's neat too.
Geoff liked the chili. So points there.
Tonight, just so I could show Geoff how it worked, I chopped up a clove of garlic I didn't really need. Just so we could watch the blades go nuts and chop stuff up. =D
Not only does it chop, but it slices, grates, and kneads dough. It will puree, I believe, if needed. Potentially even whip. Most importantly though, it warms the cockles of my heart. Maybe even the sub-cockle area. We may never know.
New plans for the processor involve making even MORE salsa, but making it spicier by adding more peppers. Other plans include making my own hummus. Or chummus. Or hommous. Or hamhouse. Homsar? Jaerb!
Basically, I will make delicious things. Delicious, delicious things. Making salsa is SO EASY. You don't even really have to chop. You just chuck everything in, pulse the blades a couple of times, and TA-DA! Salsa.
Anybody got any good food processor requiring recipes?