Baby Food Failure
A few weeks ago I decided to finally make some baby food. This is something that I meant to do for my oldest son, and never did. Now I want to do it for my youngest son, plus I want to have the puree’s on hand to hide veggies in other foods. So I went to our local farmers market, picked up a bunch of produce and came home to steam and puree. I pulled out my knife, cutting board, rice cooker (to steam), food processor and some bags to store everything in. I had cauliflower, broccoli, green and red bell peppers, summer squash, zucchini, sweet potatoes, turnips, carrots, bananas, plums, apples, and a few others I’m sure I am forgetting.
I cut up a batch of zucchini, placed it in my steamer, set the timer and started cutting up the next batch. Once the timer beeped, I took my cooked zucchini and put it in the food processor. This is where I first started having trouble. As I started to use the appliance I realized that the blade in it was for chopping only. I got the food processor for free from a friend, and it only came with the one blade. So, now it looked like I wouldn’t be able to puree with a food processor. Now, you may be thinking (as I did), that’s easy enough, just use a blender instead! Which is a fantastic idea, it’s just that our blender died just a couple of weeks before we moved. So I don’t have a working blender either! My hand mixer also crapped out on me recently. Argh!
So, in spite of this obstacle I decided to just chug along with the steaming so as not to waste any food. Sometimes the stuff you get at the farmers market just doesn’t last that long, so you need to do something with it fast. I continued to cut up my zucchini and steam and bag it up, and then put that in the freezer. Roadblock number two of the day; the steamer dies on me!
Now I am really annoyed and on my way to getting very upset. I have lightly used this rice cooker, and it isn’t even a year old. As a matter of fact, this is my second rice cooker of this brand in as many years. I had to bring the old one back to Target to get it replaced when it died, and now the replacement dies!
At this point I am so upset with the entire situation of my kitchen appliances and gadgets that I decide to just scrap the project for the day. I spent the remainder of the day Googling the best rated food processors and rice cookers and adding them to wish list on Amazon. In case you are wondering, the food processor I want is the Cuisinart Prep 11 Plus Food Processor and the rice cooker is the Sanyo 10-Cup Micro-Computerized Rice Cooker/Steamer. They are both really expensive, but I am tired of spending my money on cheap products that don’t last.
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