Blender - food for the toothless

do you need to add stock or something?

'ruck' is a new word for me, I like it!

Milk + yogurt + crushed ice + bananas + cinnamon + clear runny honey + tablespoon of wheatgerm for a breakfast smoothie.

The crushed ice went well with my Glayva, I'll certainly be doing that again.

This is a Delia Smith recipe, but I got bored with peeling potatos and I thought I'd save the second leek for another day. It was pretty damn good and goes something like this:

1) Melt 50g of butter in a large pan.
2) Add 500g diced spuds,along with 1 medium to large onion and 1 enormous leek, both to be finely sliced. Season with salt and pepperr and then sweat with lid on for 20 minutes or so.
3) Add 1 medium can (400g approx) of drained cannellini beans.
4) Pour in vegetable stock to an inch or so above the veggies (apologies for mixing imperial with metric.)
5) Simmer together for another 20 minutes or so.
6) Blitz.
7) Return to pan with 200-250 ml of double cream and reheat.

I also made a batch of squash and sweetcorn soup which was far too sweet but I bough another butternut squash today, so can anyone reccomend a better way for me to soup it. Maybe substituting potatos or beans for the sweetcorn and then currying the lot?

I also attempted to make those fried breadcrumbed (made with blender) jalapenos stuffed with cream cheese. But I had to bake them, rather than deep-fry. The ton of fat was missed, but they weren't so bad after all.

I've had a blender for about a year now - it was a housewarming gift, and honestly, it's never been out of the box. I've been trying to give it away, but can't even do that. It currently functions as a coffee table for resting my laptop on when I watch DVDs.

I cannot honestly think of a use for the thing that would justfy giving up the counter space.

A non functioning autoharp that you said you would give me for a pittance is a poor swap for a functioning, and indeed never out of its packaging blender!

I HAZ A BLENDAR

but now I don't know what to do with it. Just chucked in an orange (in bits) and some strawberries and some sugar and some ice and blendededed it all into a pinkish drab and it tastes a bit like orange with strawberry and sugar. Is this it?

yoghurt + ice + fruit = smoothie

banana works well as a base

Thx!

I HAZ ANODAR BLENDAR since the first one broek :-(

You suck, Krups blender Power XL6 Duo. Your fiddly toy-like tiny plastic lever that checks whether the beaker is there before it allows blendering DOES NOT WORK and I had to push
the back/bottom of the beaker during the whole blendering operation before I THREW YOUR RIDICULOUS ASS AWAY. Farewell, Krups.

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You rule, KitchenAid PowerBlender 5KSB52E. And you're the same color as my car. So you rule x 2.

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Tonite: Mango + 2 oranges + some raspberries = not as liquid as I expected (think pumpkin soup) but taste = A+++

mmm, I'm getting buried in blueberries from my parents' place while they're in Idaho...maybe I'll make blueberry milkshakes tonight.

Blenders make me more likely to buy high-risk fruit - if the peach is mealy, just toss it in!

any tips on using a blender to make hummus or pesto? I tried both but wasn't very successful. in the first case I just dumped everything in and then the blade just kinda whirred and mashed everything up in its immediate vicinity but everything around it stayed solid and immoveable. for the second, I made sure to keep it liquidy at first by only adding the olive oil and basil, but the leaves just gathered on the sides of the pitcher without getting blended.

I think part of the problem is that the width of my pitcher is pretty big compared to the size of the blades..

probably not helpful but it's def. easier to make pesto in a food processor (wide bowl, wide blade).

You could try shredding the basil first, maybe? Add it first and pulse it a few times, get it minced up a bit, then add the oil and pulse more and more til you can get them moving together...I think if you rely on the blender's blade to do all the basil chopping it won't work quite as well.

I'm only guessing though...

nah i have that problem with my blender, i think it's true of all blenders that the pitcher is huge compared to blades. you are probably just not using enough liquid. i make hummus in the blender pretty frequently. you need to use some of the water from cooking the chick peas. or if you used cans just use tap water.

and mash stuff down to get it started, once it catches it'll work

all these sound like good suggestions. will try after I finish this batch of okay, somewhat-tasty hummus.

This was my quick breakfast every day throughout most of high school, makes a good meal substitute as well:
1 egg, 1-2 cups milk, banana, cinnamon, sugar/sweetener. You can add other fruits in there if you want too.

Anyone care to rec a blender? Hoping to get one for $50-ish. Looking @ ninja which I have used but not owned. Consumer reports really likes 'em. don't expect to chop ice,but may use fzn fruit for smoothies.

what did you end up getting, outdoor_miner? i need one too.

we have a vitamix, my wife has fucked two jugs with her giant lumps of rock crystal sugar, but they send us replacements without asking any questions

ha, i do covet the legendary vitamix! think tho i'm probably in the market for something under 100 USD if possible

still rep for the Ninja. near vitamix quality at a much lower price point. ended up getting a hamilton beach one that was like $40 and i liked a lot but don't have anymore bcuz i broke the glass jug and when i moved i just let the base go. these days have just been using a braun stick blender that's worked for my needs

I've been living smoothie life for the first time, with a Ninja. The blender seems to work great. Standard recipe so far is avocado, banana, frozen blueberries (just realized I forgot those this morning, oops), some protein powder, a little cocoa powder, lots of salt (key!!!), a little agave syrup, some coconut milk or yogurt, maybe some hemp hearts.

great sounding combo

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i got this one for $10 (from the clearance section, aw yis) & it works fine for smoothies & soops

but i've started making nut butters w/ my mini cuisinart & it takes a.million.goddamn.years so i been keeping my eyes peeled for a good price on a high speed blender -- yr vitamixes blendtecs ninjas and so on

<3 a smoothie for a light cool breakfast, mmm

- tea
- ice
- fruit
- splash of oats
- random powder: protein, greens, nuts, whatevs
- maybe some seeds?
- maybe some yogurt too, there are no rules, a smoothie is anything u want it 2 b

thx for the rec i may just get one of those.

I would like to get a bender at some point

I have never owned a blender

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i've never had one either, Andy! mostly i'm intrigued by the ease of drinking my veggies. but there are also cooking applications like sauces that i would use it for.

thanks, cat, and others for the recs

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just remembered i have a random can of lychees in the pantry so next time we get raspberries they're all going in the freezerator together and i will blend them up with black rose tea + coconut milk = ISPAHAN SMOOTHIE WHAT

waaaht!?!? ysi ISPAHAN SMOOTHIE WHAT, please