Gone were the days when christmas and new years' eve dinner food preparation entailed staying up days and nights working on the menu. Making our yearly traditional fresh authentic chinese lumpia needed the whole family's help to julienne the snowpeas and the side pork, chiffonade the cabbage, thinly slice the shallots, grate the carrots, and many other tedious ways of preparing the ingredients before actually cooking them. Nowadays, all that is gone.
Thanks to the genius inventor of the food processor. Life for cooks have been easier since. It can chop, knead, slice, dice, and shred in seconds. We can now make pizza dough for a few seconds, make the dough rise in 30 minutes, put our favorite topping and cheeses on it and in 10 to 12 minutes, we have a homemade delicious pizza that each of my children can cook for themselves.
Food Processors come in different sizes. The biggest our kitchen has is the 7 cups with 1.5 quarts bowl capacity, which we use for making purees of vegetables which were cooked with the meat, like the boneless moroccan lamb, to make a sauce. We also use this size to knead our dough to make pizza. The medium size food processor is good for chopping onions to make hamburgers or meat loaf. The smallest one is a special gadget to chop garlic, and dried herbs like cumin, thyme, oregano, and rosemary.
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