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tuftearsNo pictures because, well, a picture of a reddish-white liquid is fairly uninspiring!
After some thinking about it, I finally picked up a Ninja blender from CostCo-- it doubles as a food processor!-- and some strawberries, bananas, and a container of plain Greek yogurt. I also secured some wheat germ from Safeway, along with another couple pounds of carrots.
After washing the blender parts, I shredded the carrots in the food processor, then trimmed the strawberries, made those into a puree, tossed in three of the bananas, added a thin layer of wheat germ, then finally put in half the container of yogurt and blended that all together. This made 72 ounces of some reddish-white liquid.
I determined that the mixture was too warm to tempting, so I decanted it into three bottles, 24 ounces each, and stored them in the refrigerator.
Verdict? Not quite sweet enough, though texture-wise it's plausible. I think the CostCo strawberries may be force-grown, they looked white on parts. I need to look for some 'real' strawberries that should be much sweeter.
So, any smoothie recipes y'all want to share? Suggestions where to buy good fruit?
After some thinking about it, I finally picked up a Ninja blender from CostCo-- it doubles as a food processor!-- and some strawberries, bananas, and a container of plain Greek yogurt. I also secured some wheat germ from Safeway, along with another couple pounds of carrots.
After washing the blender parts, I shredded the carrots in the food processor, then trimmed the strawberries, made those into a puree, tossed in three of the bananas, added a thin layer of wheat germ, then finally put in half the container of yogurt and blended that all together. This made 72 ounces of some reddish-white liquid.
I determined that the mixture was too warm to tempting, so I decanted it into three bottles, 24 ounces each, and stored them in the refrigerator.
Verdict? Not quite sweet enough, though texture-wise it's plausible. I think the CostCo strawberries may be force-grown, they looked white on parts. I need to look for some 'real' strawberries that should be much sweeter.
So, any smoothie recipes y'all want to share? Suggestions where to buy good fruit?
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Date: 2012-04-29 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-29 11:16 pm (UTC)For us it helps keep the chunks of frozen fruit in a workable condition, but then again your mixer is a bit more heavy duty than ours, so YMMV.
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Date: 2012-04-29 11:17 pm (UTC)