Monday, January 3, 2011

"Recipe" 1 - Banana Blueberry Orange Smoothie

This was pretty much about as basic as it gets. It's a great starter recipe for someone using their vitamix for the first time. Lord knows it's not my first time as i've used the machine a good number of times (pretty much daily) since her 12/22 "inception" if you will - but a good first recipe nonetheless.

The ingredients, pretty basic fare that most people will probably already have in their house, orange, water (ummm, if not - i can't help you on this), a peeled frozen banana, frozen blueberries (which i happen to have because i always like to keep blueberries on hand).

A couple of notes - i always try to go organic where feasible, which definitely includes blueberries. The banana - not so much because i don't consume the peel - if you do, well i suggest you may have bigger issues in life then whether or not your produce is organic - but all the more power to you i say. The orange - not so much so either. I *will* say this, I did some volunteer work at a local raw restaurant one night (as they were getting ready to take part in a big Seattle food fest of sorts) and there was something in which they used the orange - peel and all, and amazingly enough it tasted good. I tried it one time since in my vitamix (using an organic orange). It's not something i feel the need to repeat - at least until some study comes out declaring "orange peel" to be the next great superfood - then i'll have my vitamix at the ready.

Ok, so now that i have everything compiled - let's put all these suckers into the blend:













and next, wallah - the finished product:
























This is pretty good. I'm only on day 2 of this blog and i'm already learning something new - as i've never really worked with videos before (aside from to play them). Maybe one day, i'll learn why the audio is not carrying over into my videos - *UGH* but alas ...

I'm including one more video - just because i think this feature is like *really* cool - enjoy ....




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