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No new blender here..
But, I have a new Fagor Electric Pressure cooker!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!

We’ve been surveying the market for one, and the Fagor is one of the ones highly recommended by the Freepers.

-JT

I have gadgets out the wazoo (gifts). about all I use that is non traditional is the microwave, crock pot and espresso machine

I recently bought an Instant Pot pressure cooker, which looks very similar to that one, and I use that thing all the time.

For example, today is dog food making day. My one dog had some major liver scare last year and one of the only things I could do for him was to give him a liver-friendly, healing diet.

I thought I was doing things right before, but soon convinced myself that this new diet was much better for them.

Ever since then, I've been making the dogs' food in the kitchen, nothing from a can, bag or box other than brown rice or rolled oats, all from the meat and produce aisles of the grocery store, organic if possible.

I don't know what actually healed him, but both dogs' numbers per the vet are great and they both look even better than their "Before" pictures.

Lots of work, though, especially for someone who doesn't like cleaning and chopping veggies or doing lots of dishes.

That Instant Pot helps ease the workload, though, and I wouldn't be without it or something similar.

I'll chop up some carrots, sweet potato, celery, green beans and some brown rice for the first layer and add water to top of veggies and stir well to mix. Then add in a whole, cut up chicken and a chopped zucchini.

I'm not sure what spices are good/bad for dogs, but I've been adding in some rosemary and a few fine grinds of salt.

I'm still experimenting with cooking times on the Manual/High setting and still tend to overcook the chicken to "melt in your mouth" tender, but it's for the dogs and they seem to like it. (Me, too!)

I do a chicken picking to separate the meat from the skin and bones, both of which will go back in to the Instant Pot with more chopped veggies to make a big batch of chicken bone stock.

The cooked veggies get saved separately from the pulled chicken meat and all the containers are topped off with the remaining liquid.

Some go into the freezer and I use the rest as needed per meal to cover their protein and veggie/starch/etc. needs and also use the twice pressure cooked chicken bones for the mandatory calcium requirements.

With the Instant Pot pressure cooker, nothing gets wasted, even the moisture stays in with only a small amount of steam released.

I use the bone stock to warm up the dog food, since it all comes out of the refrigerator, and also add in some additional pureed green veggies, steamed sweet potatoes, some enzymes, along with some coconut oil.

They eat better than I do now. Their hair, skin and ears are better than ever and I don't ever worry about their food.

The only thing is changing the protein every few meals for variety and to make sure they're getting all they need nutrition-wise.

It's a lot more work than their old can and bag based diet, but that pressure cooker makes it MUCH easier and faster, and better, too!