Best Kitchen Appliances

A piece of crunchy bread can make the simplest meal - soup, stew, an omelet - into a fancy meal. Many restaurants are serving frozen bread these days. This bread is often under-baked or lacking in flavor. Instead of hearing a crunch when you bite into the bread you hear nothing. Even worse, the bread feels squishy in your mouth. What a disappointment. The way to avoid disappointment is to bake your own bread. Your first reaction, I would wager, is that you don't have time to bake bread. Well, this recipe for French bread hardly takes any time at all and tastes as good as bakery bread. If you have a food processor you can have French bread in a flash. Serve it straight from the oven and your family will say "Ahhhh." INGREDIENTS 2 cups bread flour 1/2 cup wheat flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano leaves 1/2 teaspoon dried basil leaves 1 teaspoon active dry yeast Assemble ingredients in food processor. Pulse. Add 1 cup warm water and proc...

Like to save time in your kitchen? The food processors may be just what you need. Carving out a niche in the modern home, a few decades ago, the food processor stands right along side such innovations as the microwave oven and the coffee maker. Besides ease of operation, food processors cut down on meal preparation time, with their ability to puree, mince, emulsify, blend and knead. When searching for the right machine for you consider capacity, power and versatility.   Standard food processors have the capacity options of 7, 9 and 11 cups. Small jobs such as mixing together a tasty salad dressing or a few servings of your favorite soup would call for the 7 cup model. But if making large batches of tomato sauce or pesto for freezing, the 9 and 11 cup model might fit that job better. Miniprocessors in the 2 and 3 cup range work great for mincing ginger or garlic and other small food items. Works great for producing your own baby food to. Both the standard food proces...