Cool presents 2007: immersion blender, finch sock, 3% milk

Friends —

 
IF you're looking to give yourself or an other a darn nifty & handy present, consider the KitchenAid Immersion Blender KHB100. I was surfing and saw America's Test Kitchen rating immersion blenders and they said the $50 KitchenAid with the metal wand had it all compared to any at twice the price. (This is not the one with fifty attachments. This one immerses and blends. It doesn't whisk.) It has 9 speeds or somesuch tho.
 
I got one listed at $69 for $49 in Los Altos at Cooks Junction. They come in white, red, & black. I need one so I don't have to puree batches of soup in the Cuisinart. I can do the pureeing right in the pan all at once. Its wand is much easier to wash than all the Cuisinart apparatus. (It's true I do a lot of puree soup because I don't chew so well these false-teeth days . . .  .) The metal wand is crucial so you can do still-hot soup, gravy etc. It does smoothies & all that kind of stuff too. I haven't thought of doing super bittersweet cocoa til this instant but it comes with a mixing beaker — which I now see is obviously designed to let you start with organic 100% unsweetened cocoa powder & make a delectable drink. It's always hard to get the cocoa to really mix in. [aHA!! I just went & tried the cocoa trick and it's the best easiest cocoa I've ever made or had. (Control of the sugar is the key. 3 tables spoons of 100% (therefore sugarless) cocoa powder to 1 flat tablespoon of organic fair trade alter eco sugar is about right for 16 0z cup of milk. If you do cocoa, let me know & I'll go thru the triumphantly easy tho not intuitive steps. Yippee!]   
 
/// The Kaytee Super Finch Sock is daggone adorable. It's about 10 bucks at Orchard Supply Hardware. Only finches & not squirrels or bluejays like it. May take a week or ten days for them to find it if you haven't been feeding birds previously. You re-fill it with the nyger seed. I now have 5-8 finches nibbling at any given time. The super finch sock comes in a 3″ diameter plastic tube about a foot high. The white tough net tube sock within is filled with nyger seed which finches obviously dig. You hang it from a hook or somesuch. The additional Kaytee nyger seed sack is about 16 dollars I think, & looks like it would last about 2 months if they eat at this rate & have to refill once a week?  I'll know more in a month.
 
cheers + milk + honey + a little nutmeg + . . . some cheap brandy?
.. pogblog 
ps. re cocoa, fer gawds' sakes use whole milk. Milk comes out of the cow at 3%!! [three percent] The greatest marketing scam of ALL time is the idea that if you drink 2% milk, you're losing 98% of some imagined fat. Ha double Ha. A basic Holstein cow gives 3% milk. So your gain (or loss) is minuscule & you can't absorb the calcium without the modest natural amount of fat. (I just happen to know this insider's stuff because I grew up on a dairy farm & the “Milk Tester” came & stayed at your farm every 6 months and tested the milk of each cow in a centrifuge to get its butterfat amount. Typically 3 to 3.2%. Your herd got paid a bonus or not depending on the butterfat average. Anyhow, the raw milk we drank straight from dear ole Bossy was 3% milk. Adding lowfat milk to your coffee is a Joke.  chortle guffaw)
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5 thoughts on “Cool presents 2007: immersion blender, finch sock, 3% milk

  1. My sister, pogsis, says she has that exact blender, loves it, & for vegetable soup it keeps the children/husband from picking slices of things they think they don't like out of the soup.

  2. I got some buntings today. A soft gray with black necks and heads. Very handsome. They were eating the spilled seed on the ground.

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