Life lesson learned tonight: pureeing cooked kale (with a little water) in a blender = bad idea. After a year of my mother suggesting all sorts of designated "baby food makers" and me telling her "no, we have enough crap in the kitchen" or "why would we get one of those when we have a food processor, a blender and an immersion blender?!" I'm starting to wonder if she was right. (Don't tell her I said that.) You are thinking, "Why didn't you choose the food processor to make the pureed kale?" "Well," I'm answering, "Because I already broke that last month." Not the motor, but the plastic lid. Something about sleep deprivation and hurrying up in the midst of making a bunch of different types of baby food, I twisted the lid and the stupid thing broke. So I've been using the blender, intended for things like margaritas and smoothies, to make all my baby food. Not my baby food. His baby food. You know what I mean.
So tonight after stirring and whirring and flipping between low and high and blend and liquify, it started to sound different. Then it started to smell different. Then, about the time I was thinking I should maybe stop doing this to the poor blender, it started to smoke. Oops. This is why EVERYONE SHOULD OWN AN IMMERSION BLENDER. There. I shouted it. As I looked at the chunks of kale remaining in the goop, thinking that my baby shouldn't be eating that, I remembered the immersion blender! I poured the kale goop into the kitchen aid bowl (okay, I tried using the immersion blender in the blender briefly in an attempt to dirty less dishes and quickly realized it was a stupid idea) and immersion blended that goop into a suitable-for-babies goop! And with no lid, it made a hell of a mess. So now, I not only have an extra dish to clean, I have a whole kitchen to clean! But I got 2 ice cube trays full of kale freezing as I type, so it wasn't a loss. The blender might be broken, but I needed a new one anyway. I think the source of the problem was strands of kale wrapped around the blender blades.
And I have a baby that loves kale. Really. Which makes it all worth it.
So are saying your mother was right? Just checking to make sure!
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