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To survive the normal New Yorker's tiny little kitchen, you need a library of basic cooking tools and only these basic cooking tools. You have to be able to do anything you would do in a normal-sized kitchen, but you can't have all the gadgets other cooks use to do these things - if you did, you yourself would never be able to get into the kitchen to use them. Thus far I have happily relied on my smaller-than-normal Mini Cuisinart, my half size casserole dish my hand-mixer (I was offered a stand mixer, but where would I put it?) and now, thanks to a generous box of gifts from Ginger Howard, I finally have the hand-held blender that rounds out the collection.
I love my blender, because, like the perfect New York tool, it does all the things that a big standing blender does, but it slips nicely between my mini Cuisinart and my baby coffee blender, taking up less room than a large water glass. And for my needs the hand-held blender is even better than a regular blender, because while I don't make lots of smoothies, I do like to blend soup. For a long, long time I avoided all soup recipes that required blending, resorting to the ordeal that is blending soup in batches in a Cuisinart only when absolutely giddy about the wonderfulness of a recipe, but now I can cook with abandon, sticking my lovely little blending wand into pots of soup with abandon.
So thank you, Ginger, for completing my library of kitchen tools. The photo above is for you.
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