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Sat, Mar 03, 2007

Using Kitchen Toys

Posted at 7:50 pm MST to Technology

I've been using my new kitchen toys. Supper tonight was cucumber salad, sliced with the mandoline slicer, salmon grilled in the George Foreman grill, and cauliflower puree made using the rice cooker in steamer mode and my food processor.

Brunch was waffles, made on my waffle iron not the GF grill because I was in the mood for regular waffles, not Belgian style.

Man, do I have a lot of dishes to wash.

The lock on the food processor disc caddy broke (the plastic deteriorated) so I had to disassemble it with a screw driver. But now I'll just leave it unlocked. It lives on a very high shelf, and it isn't as if I had little kids in the house who need to be protected from the sharp blades.

Grilled Salmon with Cauliflower puree is a recipe from the booklet that came with the food processor and turned out to be a wonderful combination of flavors. I should find that booklet and see what else is in it. Aside from anything else, food that's been processed to death should be easy to swallow.

I got the food processor (a CuisineArt) at Costco several years ago, and like most of the appliances sold at Costco, it was a large model and the deluxe package. I've never used most of the attachments that came with it, and it might be fun to try some of the others, some time. I generally use the regular processor blade, but the caddy also contains a dough blade and three slicer disks. The package also included a second processor bowl, so in theory I can be working on two unrelated batches of stuff in parallel. The second bowl is stashed in the back of a cupboard and is still in the original plastic bag.

I think there was a biscuit recipe using the dough blade. Maybe I'll try food processor biscuits tomorrow.

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