When to use Food Processor and When to use Blender

[shooting star]

My friend kindly gave me her food processor just before she emigrated - but she had lost the instructions!

I have a blender (not a Vitamix) but am not sure when I would use the processer and when to use the blender.

Are they interchangeable when it comes to making purees / mixtures or is there a difference? Some receipes emphasis mixing in a blender and others a processor so I wondered what the advantage of each is. What do you use / prefer?

(I appreciate the processor has a tonne of attachements aswell that I still have to figure out).

[Vegan Princess]

The food processor is good for harder or thicker things. Blender are good for liquids mainly. I have a vitamix and it would sometimes turn off doing things like the date nut torte, whereas the food processor has no problem. The FP can chop nuts and hard veggies like carrots like there is no tomorrow...it can also do thick recipes like calzone dough that just wouldn't work in a blender. I wouldn't want to make a smoothie in the FP, but I bet you could if you really needed to. I didn't have a FP until I went raw and now I wonder how I ever lived without it!

Alissa's recipes all specify which tool to use, which is helpful.

Cindy