What is the life of a Mexican mom if she doesn't have her blender any more...My long friend "the blender" died today of over- exercise -I think-.
-Yeah- No more, no more, she said for several weeks. I didn't pay attention and she just stop working.
Linking to my last post, Tita, the heroin of "Como Agua para Chocolate" used a "molcajete" '(kind of a mortar) to blend and make her concoctions of ingredients, a hard job to make salsas and moles. The blender took the place of the molcajete and made life much easier and cooking time adjusted to " modern times".
I used the blender to make the basic salsa (tomatoes and onions) for the red rice and alphabet soups. If you add garlic you have salsa to cook meat or chicken, I used it too for the succhini soup, the cauliflower soup, the potato soup, to hydrate mole, pipian and adobo pastes, and for salsas with chile or tomatillo. I guess I have to buy a new one, but that was my very first blender ever, since Pepe and I started our life together back in Mexico City.
Changing topic and still talking about mothers issues. How is the self esteem of a mother, as a person, damaged for a constant negative responses from her children?.
If I ask for an accomplishment of chores, I get a no, If I do recommendations, they better believe what their friends tell them. How is that I have to do complete lectures of facts, when their friends just say something and they believe it just as an act of faith.
And I won't go further with matter of the "lunch"... I like this, I don't like that; why I didn't have today lemonade, but just plain water; I don't like salami in squares, I prefer it in slices... Maybe I can do as the blender: no more and stop working.
I'm a human being, trying to make a healthy lunch for her kids. That is why I post this song from "Aterciopelados of Colobia", Bolero Falaz. The song talks in some parts of my situation, bad if it is yes, bad if it is no, better do do not ask...my part is when she sings with the flowers' guitar. Now, my self esteem can have a musical indulgence.
P.S. On my girls defense, they do what ever I ask, chores or homeworks and so, but I'd love not to explain and repeat myself so many times.
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"....I said to you No More and you shit your pants laughing..."
It seems like this anonymous speaks Spanish, since the song was understood...Do I know you?
Hi Daleth,
How are you? I know -- after learning to cook Mexican food from my in-laws I've learned to use the blender for many things (I make cremas de verduras all the time). Instead of a regular blender, however, I suggest that you buy an "immersion blender" or "handheld blender." It does the same thing, but you can put the the handheld blender directly in the pot where you are cooking your soup. It is MUCH faster cleanup and super convenient. It also saves time from transferring the cooked veggies from the pot to the blender (and hot splashes). Just make sure you buy a handheld blender that has a metal bottom (not plastic) -- otherwise the plastic part will soften with the heat and get warped (I've learned this the hard way). Maybe it's a good thing that it broke -- I think that you really will like this.
My kids complain all the time about the food (we have to eat that!!! Disgusting!) I have a really hard time getting them to eat their veggies (and many guisados, too).
Hope you will visit us one of these days.
Best,
JSA
Love the tune! We may have an extra blender...I'll check if yes, it's all yours! You need whatever make it a little easier to feed those kids ;)
Ah, sadly I know the feeling ;)
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