Posted on 07/13/2016 4:35:36 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
When we were married, one of our wedding gifts was a beautiful, copper ‘beehive’ Oster blender. (I was collecting 'everything copper' back then, and my copper Oster toaster is still going strong, and will probably last my lifetime.)
The blender has also been a great tool and lasted a long time, but has been on its last legs recently; and my husband decided a while back that he wanted a Breville as soon as we were ready to budget it. (I think he had seen it highly rated by America’s Test Kitchen.)
We happened to be in an ‘off-price’ department store last week which had the Breville for about $75 dollars less than we had expected to pay; and with that, the Breville Hemisphere Blender traveled to the top of the ‘wish list’, and all the way home.
I will miss the very ‘retro’ look of my old blender; but the Breville is pretty ‘whiz-bang’, with pre-programmed settings for blending/crushing/liquefying; and it’s very easy to clean and maintain. We’re having a lot of fun with it.
The manual came with recipes, and this soup caught my eye; I’ll be saving it for the cold-creeping-in Autumn days:
CHICKEN, CORN AND GINGER SOUP
Serves 4
1-½ tablespoon Peanut Oil
4 Green Onions, thinly sliced
2 inch piece fresh Ginger, finely chopped
3 cups fresh or frozen Corn Kernels
4 cups Chicken Stock
1-½ tablespoon Soy Sauce
1-½ tablespoon Rice Wine
½ teaspoon Sesame Oil
2 small Chicken Breast fillets, thinly sliced
¼ Cup roughly chopped fresh Cilantro leaves (optional)
White Pepper to taste
1. Heat oil in a large saucepan, add onions and ginger and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add corn and cook, stirring occasionally, for a further 3-4 minutes.
2. Add stock and water and bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.
3. Transfer half of the mixture to blender jug, place lid on blender jug and blend on speed 2/MIX for 30 seconds. Return pureed soup to remaining soup in saucepan with soy, wine, sesame and chicken. Cook on a medium high heat until soup starts to simmer and chicken is just cooked through.
4. Serve with fresh chopped coriander (cilantro)and white pepper to taste
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I went looking for a new smoothie recipe to try, and found this one:
1 Cup Pineapple Juice
1 large Banana, cut into chunks (I usually use a frozen banana)
1 Cup frozen Strawberries
1 Cup frozen Blueberries
Pulse to get it started, and then blend until slushy.
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The Breville Manual also had a recipe for a version of my husband’s favorite mixed drink:
Margarita Cocktail
(Serves Two)
¼ Cup Tequila
¼ Cup Cointreau
1/3 Cup Lime Juice
1/8 Cup fresh Orange Juice
¼ Cup Simple Syrup
12 ice cubes
Place all ingredients in a blender jug.
Use the Ice Crush function or the Liquefy function (adapt for your blender) and blend until well combined and ice is crushed.
Serve in salt-rimmed glasses.
-JT
Cut up one ripe peach, 2 scoops of GOOD vanilla bean Ice Cream, 1/2 cup Half and Half and an ice cube.
Hit obliterate on the machine for 15seconds.
Heaven.
Make that two replies. They are good tasting and brown nicely. They have been made and eaten with no complaints.
I have gadgets out the wazoo (gifts). about all I use that is non traditional is the microwave, crock pot and espresso machine
Ooh that bacon dip & the shrimp dip sounds delicious. Would be good w/ Stacey’s pita chips.
Cuisinart
Thanks
A good, plain ol’ electric toaster from an established company is one of the most reliable gizmos that you can buy. I’ve only lived with two in my 62-year-old life.
I remember once when our family went on vacation to Chesapeake Beach; in the cottage that we rented there was one of those old-fashioned toasters that have the sides that come down, and you had to flip the toast halfway through. I fell in love with that thing - until it almost started a fire from bad wiring! This was in the ‘sixties, and the toaster must have been decades old even then. But they made very beautiful ones back then, and the one at the cottage looked like the second one here:
I really love the old waffle-makers, too.
-JT
It really wasn’t made for cutting your scotch and that computer guy needs some of your scotch. Along with 6 or 8 ‘ludes.
Those are cool, mini works of art!
I have one and I know how to use it. That was the only can opener my grandmother had. Ever! My grandfather bought her an electric one but it went to storage in the basement still in the box.
I wish people made household stuff with design like that now.
But it would probably cost a fortune.
-JT
The Ninja will eat anything.
Water? Never touch the stuff...fish fornicate in it.
WC
I have a Kitchen Aid stand mixer and hand mixer, Cuisinart food processors in 3 sizes, 1 with a juicer attachment, also a Cuisinart toaster oven, slow cooker, and electric tea kettle, two Krups coffee grinders, 1 for coffee, 1 for spices and a Zojurushi bread machine, which I no longer use since discovering the no knead bread recipes. There is also an old yoghurt maker here somewhere or that may have gone home with my daughter. I make yoghurt in the oven now. I have looked at the new electric pressure cookers, the 6 in 1, or 7 in 1, thinking it could replace my slow cooker and make yoghurt.
Oops forgot my blender which is new, a Kitchen Aid. My Oster which was a wedding present was looking pretty shabby and dated. It was Harvest Gold and the glass pitcher for it had become etched.
I work with a Dutch fellow in the 70s. We would go to lunch and the waitress would ask, “water?” and he would say, “No, vodka, I washed before I sat.”
LOL!
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