Blades of Glory Make Soup for the Soul

I got a food processor for Mother's Day and it's changed my life.

In my wildest dreams I never imagined that a food processor could be life-changing - barring some terrible culinary mishap, of course - like chopping off a couple fingers while slicing carrots.  That would definitely change one's life. (And how ironic, too, to be rendered fingerless by the very appliance you would then need to slice your carrots.)

Fortunately, I have suffered no such tragedy (y e t) - just the blessing of Possibility that my new food processor represents.

I am feeling the power. 

I can slice. I can dice. I can mince, grate, and shred.   I can chop til' I drop, and then stand up and chop some more. I can even make dough.

And I can do all this at the touch of a button, without knives or cutting boards or band-aids, faster than you can say, " Wow! Looks like someone's making a big vat of vegetable soup!"

And faster than you can say, "No really I must be go..." I'll have filled a bowl with steamy hot goodness, chock full of fresh garden vegetables that have been sliced, diced, minced, grated, shredded and chopped to perfection. I'll cut thick slices of the bread I made, still warm from the oven, and put them on a plate.

I'll place the bowl and the plate on the table, pull out a chair, and gesture for you to sit.  "Sit," I'll say. "Sit and have some soup."

And together, thanks to my new food processor, we'll sit and have some soup.

Comments

[Kate]

I have a Kitchenaid stand mixer, which sits proudly on my counter next to my new-ish (6 months or so) Cuisinart food processor.

I love them. If there was a fire, I would be agonizingly torn between them and my children's baby books. Really.

LOVE. THEM.

[Emma kw]

I keep dropping hints, but so far all I get is jewellry and photo frames containing what my kids think are cute baby pics!! Yes, I love the pretty things, but Mummy really wants that kick ass food processor she saw in Williams Sonoma, Oh, and that cool looking chrome stand mixer..........

[sandy]

Hee! I felt just like that when I got my KitchenAid stand mixer. It is so damn cool.