I’ve just eaten a very good plate of soup from, of all places, the canteen at ACP Media, where I work about 20 hours a week – silverbeet and parsnip, a little too much salt, but a lovely dark green silverbeety colour. Quite magnificent. Perhaps predictably, there hasn’t been too much uptake, so I might go and buy one for lunch tomorrow.
It’s got me thinking about my complete lack of a food processor, though. About three years ago, when we went overseas, we ditched all the crapped-out old bits that we didn’t want to pay to store and vowed to never again just buy cheap kitchen things ‘cos we needed something. This brought about an unprecedented level of exciting kitchen purchases, including the famous Le Creuset and my latest toy, a Lodge cast-iron skillet.
But I’ve never quite got around to investing in a food processor, which seems a little odd now that I’ve reached the grand old age of 30 – and it took me years to get around to investing in a set of digital scales, which I now use every day.
Which is all very well and good, except I do find myself reading recipes that say “put in food processor” and realising I can’t – it cuts out a whole lot of fun stuff. Like silverbeet and parsnip soup.
The problem is, I sorely want a Magimix Food Processor 5200 in brushed chrome, like this:
It comes with commercial-grade engines and nice chunky lines – I need a manly food processor, see – and a long, long warranty, which is important when you’re as hard on things as I am. And it’s basic: on, off, pulse. No dicking around.
But, sigh, it costs $899, so it won’t be happening any time soon. I could buy a lesser version from somewhere else for about $200, but I know that I’d resent it every time I saw it because it wasn’t the one I really wanted, and one day it would break and I’d say, “See! See! I knew this would happen!’
So I won’t. Not just yet.
On the plus side, this last weekend I cashed in some useless Qantas airpoints from a flight to Hong Kong I took years ago for… Farmers gift vouchers and we had a jolly time on Sunday buying up a whole pile of very nice stuff, like a salad spinner. And pyrex! And a nice shiny new peeler! And BPA-free Sistema food containers! All of it built to last and very, immensely, useful. Golly.