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The only thing you'll definitely want to avoid making in a food processor is mashed potatoes. It turns it into paste.

If it is a strong enough motor, you can also make pizza and bread doughs in it.

Is it a Kitchen-Aid or Cuisinart?

It's a Cuisinart. The DVD is pretty neat to watch, teaches you have to make just about anything, it even came with a small recipe booklet!

I love my food processor, especially for making shredded carrot salad, and prepping large quantities of veggies for soups.

It is also great for making flavored butters with herbs.

You'll have a lot of fun with it.

In California I always saw the signs for Anderson’s Split Pea soup but I never tried it. Found this recipe and I’m going to make it this week. I’ll be adding ham to mine though.

Anderson's Split Pea Soup

Make half without ham. It is a good, different, soup without it.

If you feel like you have to have protein with the meal buy some good quality Viennese sausages or something similar to serve on the side with rye bread.

Good idea, I should try the original recipe first, I can always experiment with it another time.

I know that restaurant fairly well (gah!!!), have stayed at that motel. I avoided it when I last drove through CA, staying at another motel in the Buellton area.
<raises her nose, looks away>

I just looked up a dried split pea soup recipe a few hours ago, great minds work in mysterious ways, eh? Actually, I looked some up yesterday, but the sites I saw then were talking about lentels.

http://southernfood.about.com/od/crockpotsoup/r/bl17c5.htm

I don't have ham, but I did purchase some salt pork to try it out recently. Fatty, so I'll cook that away before I add it.
We'll see.


Next time I may use an Indian lentil recipe, more my natural cooking style.

I can’t believe how many time I drove past that restaurant and never stopped to try the Pea Soup, Antonio isn’t fussy when it comes to different foods, I’m sure he would love it.

Yeah, but I am...

Actually, I liked the canned soup when I was a kid.

I've been to their restaurant several times enroute to and from SoCal. Loved their tomato soup. Haven't been able to find either the pea or tomato soups here in ABQ.

So, yesterday, I made split pea soup for today, New Years, and used a different recipe from a website I never heard of, and then changed it a lot.

http://www.getorganized-stayorganized.com/slow-cooker-split-pea-soup.html

here's their recipe, my changes in red:

Easy Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup

16 oz Dried split peas, rinsed and sorted

3” chunk salt pork or ham bone - I used a 3/4" cut of salt pork and took it out at the end, still adding up to about that 3/4"size

4 cups chicken stock - I used six cups of water

2 potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2” pieces - no potatoes, but I plan to add some of my previously made potato gnocchi in the bowl when I eat the soup.

1 cup chopped carrots - I chopped a half refrigerator-pickled carrot

1 tbsp minced onion - instead, 3 minced fresh garlic cloves + a couple of tablespoons of the previous lightly cooked jalapeno/anaheim chiles I keep in olive oil in refrigerator

1 bay leaf
1 tsp salt - didn't add salt
¼ tsp thyme

Combine all ingredients in 4 quart slow cooker. Cook on low setting for 9-10 hours or on high setting for 5 hours.
Makes 6 servings.

It came out great, but greater after I added 2 cups chicken broth as it was too thick.
Still a tad bland.
So - I added 2 teaspoons of Madras Tamarind Hot Curry powder. There, that was a good idea.

I used my food processor and made the split pea soup. It’s delicious, came out nice and creamy. This is our vegitarian meal for the week, graded a little white cheddar cheese on top, having it with some toasted garlic bread. Antonio loves it.

If you enjoy cooking and aren't familiar with Chef John at foodwishes.com, you are missing out. He's my hero in both a Mariah Carey and Bonnie Tyler kind of way. I flubbed this recipe the first time because I burned my shrooms.

I make one simila to yours osso but instead of salt pork I add a solid chunk of BACON.
Then, when ready to serve, add 2 T of a sweet sherry

I used my food processor last night and made my first homemade apple pie. I’m on a diet so I haven’t tried it yet but the Puerto Rican had a piece and said it was delicious.

Diet, schmeit, apples are good for you..

Yeah but there's a lot sugar and butter in that pie

It's known the butter all melts into the crust and sugar makes a man sexier.

I gained 5 lbs on my ass lol, Two more to go and back to my normal 195lbs!

People do fluctuate, though I'm pretty steady f0r whatever reason myself. I've been at or around 141 for something like four years, once I got down to it. Don't really want to go lower, as some avoirdupois is protective for elders.

My recent pie crusts (well, savory torte crusts) are takeoffs on a recipe that uses olive oil. Not your flaky pie crust scene, but I don't care. (If I want flaky, I'll do an old fashioned rolled layered croissant dough, but I don't have the patience). My business partner in my last home town, who cooked somewhat french like I cook somewhat italian, gave up on the butter crusts, after years, and used canola. I suppose I can imagine doing half and half, re the type of fat.