Anna Kaiser

Soup is really easy to make: you can take basil, celery, acorn squash and boil them and then put them in the blender with sea salt. It's delicious and only takes about 15 minutes. You can make it the night before. It's kind of like making baby puree, and there are a ton of super easy recipes.

American Businesswoman

Claire Saffitz

When making any pureed soup, don't blend all the liquids and solids together at once. Hold back some liquid at first and use it to thin the soup as needed. You can always add more liquid, but there's not much you can do to fix a too-thin soup.

American Editor

Alex Guarnaschelli

If I am making a spice rub or a spice mix for a braise or even just to crust a piece of fish, I'll use mustard seeds. If you soak them in a little bit of vinegar and let them get plumped and soft and then you puree them, they're delicious.

American Chef

Tia Mowry

I have these brownies that I make that are just a home run with my family. I make them with almond butter, prune puree, walnuts, cocoa powder and whole-wheat flour, and I like them because they're delicious, but they're also guilt-free.

American Actress

Wolfgang Puck

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

Austrian Chef

Kourtney Kardashian

My mom bought me this amazing baby-food maker, the Beaba. I steam and puree fruits and vegetables, and they last for, like, four days.

American Celebrity

Wylie Dufresne

When ramps are in season, we pickle a bunch of ramps and fold that into soup. Pickled pearl onions are great chopped up or pureed.

April Bloomfield

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!

British Chef

Spalding Gray

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

American Actor

Katie Lee

Frozen bananas pureed in the food processor make a great fake ice cream.

The noun 'puree' is mostly used in cooking and food-related contexts to describe textures.

Culinary Context

While commonly associated with baby food, 'puree' is also sophisticated cuisine.

Not Just Babies

'Puree' implies a completely smooth texture, with no lumps or chunks.

Textural Importance

When you 'puree' something, it usually follows cooking to make blending easier.

Cooking Process

To 'puree' you need tools like blenders or food processors; manual mashing isn't enough.

Tool Specific

When you 'puree', achieving a silky-smooth texture is your main goal.

Texture Focus

 and science-minded and eco-friendly and gluten-free, though now is probably a good time to tell you that I was not eco-friendly and gluten-free as a child. I ate jars of pureed macaroni and beef. And you know what? I'm doing okay.

Jennifer Senior: For...

 embrace designed to produce more mud puddle frogs as the male fertilizes the eggs something pretty amazing also occurs the male frogs legs make like a Mixmaster stuck in the puree mode he whips up the fluid released with the