Quick Cooking with the Blender

How to speed up certain tasks in the kitchen using the blender.

Yes you can use your blender for more than just making a smoothie.

You probably already have one. Did you get one as a wedding present, house warming gift, or just got yourself on in a fit of culinary madness? Maybe you inherited a family members just in hope of someday making that dreamed of smoothie.

It might even be sitting on your counter or under it gathering dust.

Well dig it out! Your trusty old blender can help you get out of the kitchen faster!

As a time saving device a blender is one of the tops. Just read some of these ideas.

1. You can chop vegetables that you may need chopped fine in the blender. Do small amounts and blend with short bursts until you reach the desired texture. This of carrots and cabbage.

2.You can make bread crumbs from your blender.  Use your fresh bread for fresh crumbs. Your day old bread for dryer courser crumbs. Make cracker crumbs and even cookie crumbs for your desserts and pie crusts.

3.Your blender can even be used to make cakes, cookies, muffins and pies.  My recommendation here is to buy a good cookbook with some such blender recipes and get a feel for the order in which ingredients are added and what types of recipes do well being made in a blender.

Some tips to keep in mind.

Mashed potatoes and egg whites don't do well in the blender. Egg whites will never nice and stiff and your cooked potatoes will turn into soup instead of nice and fluffy.

Stop your blender occasionally and mix things together with a rubber spatula.

After you're done and have emptied the container of your foods, run the blender a few seconds with some hot soapy water to make sure all the food particles have been removed before sending it through your dishwasher or hand washing it.

Happy Quick Cookin