Use Your Blender
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Recipe Introduction
A blender and/or food processor can pay for its cost and the
electricity it
uses very quickly. It's a tool for the frugal, busy person that pays
its way
many times over.
With it, you can stir, grind, mix, puree and pulverize almost anything
in
seconds, from creating a cooling drink to making your own powdered
sugar. A
blender is a handy dandy gadget for sure!
List of Ingredients
One of my favorite uses is making sandwich spreads from leftover meat.
Anything from chicken to roast to hotdogs is fair game. Just cut the
meat into
manageable sized pieces and add mayonnaise or salad dressing, pickles,
onions,
cheese, olives, boiled eggs... whatever you prefer, and whirl it until
it's finely
diced.
It's a good way to stretch a little meat to go a long way.
Ever get a hankering for an ice cream malted ? It's a lot cheaper to
make
your own! You should find malt in the baking section of your grocery
store (if
you don't find it, ask!). That, along with some vanilla ice cream and a
little
milk is all it takes.
For one malt, put two or three hefty scoops of ice cream in the
blender, add
about 1/4 cup of milk and a couple of heaping tablespoons of malt.
Blend until
it's smooth, but don't overdo it. You can add whatever you like for
flavoring
too. Try real bananas, cocoa mix, frozen strawberries, flavored syrups,
jellies... let your imagination go wild for this one.
Use your blender to make your own powdered sugar by adding a teaspoon
of
cornstarch to a cup of granulated sugar and blending until it's fine.
You'll never
have to buy powdered sugar again, and you'll always have it fresh, not
to
mention that granulated sugar is cheaper.
Need onion powder or garlic powder? Put dehydrated onions or garlic in
the
blender and turn it on! Need ground oregano when all you have are
oregano
leaves? Same thing.
Use your blender to chop nuts for toppings or breads, make cracker and
bread
crumbs, make salsas when the peppers are too hot to handle, puree real
pumpkin
for real pumpkin pies... the list goes on.
They're inexpensive and even the cheaply made ones usually last a few
years.
That means you can save a lot of money, with just the uses listed here.
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