View Single Post
  #18 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
hahabogus hahabogus is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 2,322
Default Pureeing pea soup (was Fun with salad dressing.)

Puester > wrote in
:

> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>> "Puester" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

>
>>>>
>>>> It's customary for experienced adults to double check the cap of
>>>> any bottle before shaking it.
>>>
>>> IME only perfect, smug adults.
>>>
>>> gloria p

>>
>> Never had little kids around the house, eh? They're famous for not
>> tightening caps. Checking should be instinctive after the second or
>> third "event".

>
>
> This morning I made pea soup with a meaty ham bone I had frozen
> just before the holidays. When everything was well cooked, I removed
> the bone and began to puree the remaining peas, onions,.and celery.
>
> The first batch was 2 cups of soup. I put the lid on the blender
> tightly and hit puree. the soup rose, spewed out from the cover all
> over the blender, the counter, the cabinets and me.
>
> OK, two cups was too much. Next batch was a cup. Puree, spew.
>
> This time a half cup. Puree, spew.
>
> By the last of the soup, I had it figured out. If you want to puree
> hot/warm
> pea soup in a blender, you don't push "puree", you push the "stir"
> button.
>
> gloria p
>


This is one of the reasons I use my stick/wand blender. The other reason
is it cleans easier and takes up less room.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore