Where Have You Been All My Life?

Meet my new best friend. Fifteen plus years of marriage and I've been way overworking myself. This little dandy put the spring right back in my culinary step. You own this guy already? I've heard that most of you do. I'm embarrassed to say that Henry bought me one two years ago, but I took it back! I KNOW!! Crazy! So having read one too many recipes that state, "Place ingredients into food processor and pulse." I determined that I should wise up. A few days ago, Henry spotted a tiny little black and white sale advertisement in the newspaper and ripped it out and headed right over to Macy's, by himself to pick it up; no prodding from me, I know!! cute!

So, I'm not sure where this blog is headed, but I figured that I'd dedicate a fair amount of space to fooding. I like food, and lately, I've challenged myself to up my game a bit in the kitchen. Now that I have my new little gadget, I feel like shouting my ideas from the rooftop. So tonight I launch installment #1 of the "Cuisinart Monologues."

Bread Crumbs 101

Four slices bread, (dried out- unnecessary, mine were fluffy) Cut into small chunks and process 30 seconds. Done. End of story. No more stale, prepackaged, nasty old crumbs sitting in your pantry. Brown in skillet with 1 tablespoon butter to toast them up if you like. Today I used them as a substitute for pie crust. Just press into a greased pie plate.

ps. Henry actually found two surprises for me that day in the kitchen department at Macy's. The other was this fab new blender. Don't even get me started on the fun we're gonna have makin' smoothies. Stay tuned.