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With all of today’s modern conveniences, sometimes it is nice to get back to basics.  One such area that lends itself to this is the kitchen.  Somewhere along the line people have forgotten what it is like to actually get in the kitchen and make a meal from scratch.  This means actually getting your hands a little dirty and not using the pre-packaged meals from Trader Joe’s and stuffing them in the oven, but using appliances like a stainless steel food mill to prepare and cook items.

It can be argued that some of the modern appliances have made life easier for everyone to cook, but at the same time the actual artistry of making a great dinner has been lost.  While just about anyone can now make a very good meal for the family to eat, the truly great meals come from old fashioned preparation.  Take something as simple as mashed potatoes and you will soon realize what we are talking about.

It is pretty common today for people to make up their potatoes and then throw them into a mixing bowl and blend them to death before they put them out on the table.  Who wants pureed potatoes?  This is not true mashed potatoes, yet people everywhere are putting this horrible mix out on the table and portraying it as something that it is not.

No, mashed potato purists everywhere need to stand up and insist that mashed potatoes need to be mashed, not blended.  How you do this is with a good old fashioned food mill.  After you boil your potatoes, you can blend them with your mix of spices, cream and butter into the food mill to create true ecstasy for the potato lover deep inside of us all.  They will be smashed down and run through the food mill, but there will still be just a hint of a piece of potato here and there to remind you that you are indeed easting potatoes and not soup for dinner.

Truth be told, blended mashed potatoes just don’t hold a candle to mashed potatoes that are made like this.  When they are blended down like that, they simply lose some of what makes mashed potatoes taste so good.  The same can be said for many other products where blending or a food processor is just overkill.  There are times to puree food and then there are times to use a food mill.

If you are a purist, you can use one of the many hand food mills that are on the market.  If you insist on having some of the convenience of modern technology, there are also some very nice electric food mills that you can purchase that will give the same result without the physical exertion that a true food mill may require.

Every now and then you have to look at modern technology and laugh.  Sometimes newer and faster is not better.  In cooking, this is usually the case as nothing beats good old fashioned hearty food.  You can hardly make that in a blender!

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If you look at the amount of money that you spend on things like preservers, gravies and sauces, you would be amazed at how much money is actually wasted.  Not only that, but you are probably not even really happy with the quality of the stuff that you are eating.  You use it out of sheer convenience when in reality you could be making it on your own instead of sitting around watching television.  If you get yourself a good food mill, you will be surprised at how much better your food tastes and how much money you save.

If you have never used a food mill, it is a device that usually comes in three pieces.  It will have grinding wheel, a bowl and then the handle that is used to turn the grinding wheel.  In most cases, you will be given several sized wheels to use to vary how fine you want to grind or puree the food that you are using.

One of the best ways to make use of a food mill is to make your own sauce or gravy.  Instead of using bottled, prepared sauces, you can get the tomatoes, blanch and skin them and then put them through the food mill.  You can make it a fine consistency or change the wheel and make it garden style if you prefer.  Regardless, you will be using fresh ingredients and have a sauce without all of the nasty preservatives that are usually used in jarred sauces.  The flavor difference will be incredible and the money that you save will add a few digits to your bank account.

Another use for a food mill is to make your own preserves.  Now I don’t know about you, but something that bothers a lot of people is that there simply is not enough fruit in the preserves when they eat them.  Now is your chance to rectify that as you can put in as much as you like and make sure that there is literally a piece of fruit in every spoonful that you put on your sandwich or morning toast.

Another great use for a food mill is to use them to make baby food.  Like everything else that is served in a jar, they are loaded with salts, sugars and other preservatives that mask the flavor of the real food.  This is no way for your baby to learn about food.  Once again, it is also a great way to save money.  For the cost of a single jar, you can buy enough ingredients to make several meals for your child. Every penny counts in today’s economy and the savings will quickly add up.

If you have soured on the taste of foods, look at the type of food that you are eating.  If you find that you are regularly using prepared sauces and such, it is time to fight back and rediscover the true taste of food.  The time you spend preparing the items with a food mill will not only pay you off in the wallet, but your taste buds will be thanking you as well.

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