Smoothies; Blender drinks - help (Sheldon?)
aec
alchohol - a year or maybe even several years back???
I have searched (to the best of my limited abilities), but I can't
find them anywhere in rfc!
Now that spring is almost sprung in gray old France and there is lots
of luscious fresh fruit for sale at the market, I'd like to try some
out (I have never even made a smoothie - what a sheltered life I have
lived!!!)
What are your favorite smoothie/fruit drink in a blender recipes? I
am particularily interested in non-alcoholic (and kid-appealing), but
adult recipes are welcome too.
Thanks!
Anne
ps this all began because I have one lone banana turning brown in the
fruit bowl - just crying out to be used in a smoothie!
hahabogus
Peter Betancourt
There are many kinds of smoothies - fruit/juice based, milk based and
some using plain yogurt, frozen yogurt or sherbet. Additions such as
protein powders, juice boosters (a vitamin suppliment) and Greens can
also be added to smoothies for a particularly healthful smoothie. Here
are some tips for making them the same way we do at our smoothie bar.
1) Freeze your seasonal fruit so you have a ready supply handy. It's
cheaper and you can select fruit at its height of ripeness.
Bananas - slice very ripe bananas, make a single fairly thin layer of
them in a one gallon freezer bag and freeze. (place toweling on both
sides if you stack things on top so it protects the bag. You can remove
the bananas, break off what you need and return it.
Berries - place on cookie sheet so they aren't touching. Freeze, then
remove to freezer storage bag. (strawberries are the best! blueberries
are good as well, very high in fiber)
Stone & tropical fruit - cube and freeze like berries. (peaches, mango
and pineapple are very good)
2) Bases - Keep chilled in the fridge.
Milk, Vanilla Flavored Soy or Rice Milk, Almond Milk (YUM!), Juices (I
prefer mango and/or pineapple juice)
3) Additions
Yogurt, Sherbet (remember that it has added sugar), Protein Powder,
Juice Suppliments and Greens - even Bee Pollen.
How to make a smoothie:
Pour approximately 8 oz. of base (or combinations - like 1/2 and 1/2
juice and soy milk) into a blender. Make Additions per package
instructions (a serving scoop is usually included) or a 1/4 cup (good
dollop or small scoop) of yogurt, sherbet or frozen yogurt. Add fruit in
desired amounts depending on how many you are using - As an example for
a mixed smoothie I will add 4-6 large strawberries, a 3 x 3 inch chunk
of the frozen bananas (broken up) and a 1/4 cup of frozen pineapple
chunks. Blend well until the consistency is thick and smooth, almost to
the point where you might want to eat it with a spoon. If it becomes too
thick/frozen right away to adequately break up the fruit, add a SMALL
amount of liquid through the top of the blender while it's on until it
starts to smoothly blend again. Remember, you want these very thick and
smooth.
Pour into a glass, add a straw and VOILA, it's just that easy! Ellen
PENMART01
<pe...@sportkite.com> writes:
>1) Freeze your seasonal fruit so you have a ready supply handy. It's
>cheaper and you can select fruit at its height of ripeness.
This freezing routine is fine if you're running a volume business based on
adhering to a particular menu throughout the year but for individuals at home
it's far, far simpler to use whatever fresh fruits are in season, which these
days with items being shipped from all points of the planet is quite an array.
All that prep, wrapping and freezer space makes no sense at all for the
homemaker smoothie maven; besides, many fruits such as berries and tropicals
are are readily available from the stupidmarket freezer case, and often at
significantly lower cost than in-season fresh... and don't neglect the fresh
juices and nectars from the refrigerator case. And for smoothies canned
pineapple works much better than fresh. Of course no smoothie staples pantry
is complete without the obligatory Melons! Watermelon, kiwi, strawberry
smoothies are exceptionally refreshing, even better with a big sqeeze of fresh
lemon.
And don't forget to keep cans of Coco Lopez on hand.
Sheldon
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Angela Faye Oon
with the fruit that no one in the family can finish while they are at the
height of ripeness!
Angela
"Peter Betancourt" <pe...@sportkite.com> wrote in message
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<snip>
> 1) Freeze your seasonal fruit so you have a ready supply handy. It's
> cheaper and you can select fruit at its height of ripeness.
<snip>
limey
"aec" <anne.c...@bull.net> wrote in message
news:b006ef27.02050...@posting.google.com...
> Sheldon posted a whole list of blender fruit drinks - with and
without
> alchohol - a year or maybe even several years back???
> I have searched (to the best of my limited abilities), but I can't
> find them anywhere in rfc!
Anne, do a Google search for Jill McQuown. A few weeks ago she was
looking for ways to help her father gain some weight while
convalescing. Sheldon gave a great list of smoothie suggestions at
that time.
Dora
limey
Well, I couldn't find his post on Google, so here goes:
(Sheldon, 4/13/02):
"Smoothies!
"Gotta be a ZILLION variations, all healthful...lottsa fresh
fruit/canned fruit, fruit juices, milk/yogurt/ice cream, nutritional
powders such as Carnation, Ovaltine, Horlicks///all sorts of
flavorings/extracts/syrups, adding coconut cream with pineapple,
banana, vanilla or a Watermelon-OJ Julius, and I'm positive your pop
will love melons (all guys do)...slip in a raw egg, some extra
goodness with powdered milk (better n'viagra), and even some
veggies...a few ounces canned beets added to a red berry smoothie adds
wonderful color and extra vitamins/minerals (add the beet juice too)
won't even taste it. Keep nutmeg and cinnamon handy and save that
leftover coffee///if he can get a bottle of Bacardi to kick it up a
notch...BAM!
"Ten times better and a whole lot less money than any fercocktah
Ensure/Boost crapola."
This response was in order to add nutrition to Jill's dad's diet
because of weight loss.
Dora
Nancy Young
> Anne, do you know about frozen-banana smoothies? For some
> reason, they are thicker and richer than smoothies made with
> unfrozen bananas.
>
> It's also handy to be able to freeze the bananas if they're
> going bad.
This would be a great way to use up those bags of bananas on
the edge they sell at the supermarket. Like $1 for a couple
dozen bananas.
nancy
Jenalyn
> am particularily interested in non-alcoholic (and kid-appealing), but
> adult recipes are welcome too.
> Thanks!
> Anne
My typical smoothie is made: Any type or mixed berries, Soy Dream (type of
soy milk) or Milk (I'm Lactose Intolerant). Puree until smooth. Add a half
pint to full pint of similar flavored Sorbet (I love Raspberry Sorbet) and
frappe until smooth. Pour and serve!
Fruit/berries, 1 8oz of non-fat or low-fat yogurt (flavored or plain), a
little bit of milk and a tad of sugar. Puree until smooth; pour and serve!
Jen
aec
>
> There are many kinds of smoothies - fruit/juice based, milk based and
> some using plain yogurt, frozen yogurt or sherbet. Additions such as
> protein powders, juice boosters (a vitamin suppliment) and Greens can
> also be added to smoothies for a particularly healthful smoothie. Here
> are some tips for making them the same way we do at our smoothie bar.
>
Thanks so much, Ellen, I couldn't have imagined having more info!
I'm am sure you have launched a smoothie adept with this!
Anne
aec
Thanks Dora for reposting that - I had found it also. But now that I
have the absolute basics from Ellen, I will be able to wing it with
Sheldon's ideas.
Anne
PENMART01
anne.c...@bull.net (aec) writes:
>"limey" <li...@toadstop.net> wrote in message
>news:<ZZTA8.282$301....@news.abs.net>...
>> Well, I couldn't find his post on Google, so here goes:
>>
>> (Sheldon, 4/13/02):
>>
>> "Smoothies!
>>
>> "Gotta be a ZILLION variations, all healthful...lottsa fresh
>> fruit/canned fruit, fruit juices, milk/yogurt/ice cream, nutritional
>> powders such as Carnation, Ovaltine, Horlicks///all sorts of
>> flavorings/extracts/syrups, adding coconut cream with pineapple,
>> banana, vanilla or a Watermelon-OJ Julius, and I'm positive your pop
>> will love melons (all guys do)...slip in a raw egg, some extra
>> goodness with powdered milk (better n' viagra), and even some
>> veggies...a few ounces canned beets added to a red berry smoothie adds
>> wonderful color and extra vitamins/minerals (add the beet juice too)
>> won't even taste it. Keep nutmeg and cinnamon handy and save that
>> leftover coffee///if he can, get a bottle of Bacardi to kick it up a
>> notch...BAM!
>>
>> "Ten times better and a whole lot less money than any fercocktah
>> Ensure/Boost crapola."
>>
>> This response was in order to add nutrition to Jill's dad's diet
>> because of weight loss.
>>
>> Dora
>
>Thanks Dora for reposting that - I had found it also. But now that I
>have the absolute basics from Ellen, I will be able to wing it with
>Sheldon's ideas.
>Anne
Oh, and for proper texture use lotsa ice cubes. And for safety don't forget to
wrap your blender with a heavy towel.
Melba's Jammin'
anne.c...@bull.net (aec) wrote:
Fake it! Start with half the banana, maybe some yogurt (a couple
dollops?), some of those gorgeous strawberries, a couple three ice cubes
and buzz the holy hell out of it! Maybe a splash of vanilla and some
sugar if it isn't sweet enough.
-Barb, just back from Phoenix and No. 1 Son in Tucson.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com>, Misc tab updated 4/21/02
Mother Superior, Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina
of Jella (HOSSSPoJ)
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
blacksalt
>
> What are your favorite smoothie/fruit drink in a blender recipes? I
> am particularily interested in non-alcoholic (and kid-appealing), but
> adult recipes are welcome too.
> Thanks!
All time fav is one part each orange chunks, apple chunks, banana chunks.
Freeze them solid and then blend with enough OJ to make it a smoothie. The
other day, working my protein fix in for the ever-growing fetus, I did two
big spoons of vanilla yogurt, a cup of frozen raspberries, and orange and
a banana. Very very tastey.
blacksalt
distinctly waddling
www.hazardfactor.com
a splash of vanilla rice milk (or cow milk).
i don't like smoothies made with ice. too slushy or something.
MurphAssoc
frozen strawberries, about a cup of pineapple sherbert, some vanilla soy -
delicious ! and plenty thick
aec
Thanks for that... I hadn't registered yet that you were pregnant -
belated congratulations! I should keep a big white board with names
of rfc'ers on it to note the major events, who's expecting, who has
killfied whom, who is out of town etc etc!
Are you into blackstrap molasses? I used to take when I was pregnant
for some vital reason (iron??), but truly I think it was just the name
which sounded sexy to me at a moment when I definitely did not!!!
Good luck - when are you due?
Anne
aec
> In article <b006ef27.02050...@posting.google.com>,
> anne.c...@bull.net (aec) wrote:
>
> > Sheldon posted a whole list of blender fruit drinks - with and without
> > alchohol - a year or maybe even several years back???
> > I have searched (to the best of my limited abilities), but I can't
> > find them anywhere in rfc!
> >
> > Now that spring is almost sprung in gray old France and there is lots
> > of luscious fresh fruit for sale at the market, I'd like to try some
> > out (I have never even made a smoothie - what a sheltered life I have
> > lived!!!)
> >
> > What are your favorite smoothie/fruit drink in a blender recipes? I
> > am particularily interested in non-alcoholic (and kid-appealing), but
> > adult recipes are welcome too.
> > Thanks!
> > Anne
> > ps this all began because I have one lone banana turning brown in the
> > fruit bowl - just crying out to be used in a smoothie!
>
> Fake it! Start with half the banana, maybe some yogurt (a couple
> dollops?), some of those gorgeous strawberries, a couple three ice cubes
> and buzz the holy hell out of it! Maybe a splash of vanilla and some
> sugar if it isn't sweet enough.
> -Barb, just back from Phoenix and No. 1 Son in Tucson.
Thanks - we have a long weekend coming up (should I brag...? Oh, why
not. Five days. Five whole days off work! But I guess that won't make
you jealous...)
And welcome back! The Southwestern US is breathtaking, isn't it?
Once I went to Phoenix and loved it (I think...). The only thing I
can remember doing really clearly was going to the "Doggies" - dog
races. As often happens, I would never have thought of going, but
once someone dragged me to it, I loved it. But the rest of the trip
is kind of a blazy hurr...(ha)
What can I say, I was young, attractive and single and that heat sure
does make a girl thirsty...!
Anne
Eric Lund
> Pour approximately 8 oz. of base (or combinations - like 1/2 and 1/2
> juice and soy milk) into a blender. Make Additions per package
> instructions (a serving scoop is usually included) or a 1/4 cup (good
> dollop or small scoop) of yogurt, sherbet or frozen yogurt. Add fruit in
> desired amounts depending on how many you are using - As an example for
> a mixed smoothie I will add 4-6 large strawberries, a 3 x 3 inch chunk
> of the frozen bananas (broken up) and a 1/4 cup of frozen pineapple
> chunks. Blend well until the consistency is thick and smooth, almost to
> the point where you might want to eat it with a spoon. If it becomes too
> thick/frozen right away to adequately break up the fruit, add a SMALL
> amount of liquid through the top of the blender while it's on until it
> starts to smoothly blend again. Remember, you want these very thick and
> smooth.
>
> Pour into a glass, add a straw and VOILA, it's just that easy! Ellen
>
instead of fresh?
blacksalt
> Are you into blackstrap molasses? I used to take when I was pregnant
> for some vital reason (iron??), but truly I think it was just the name
> which sounded sexy to me at a moment when I definitely did not!!!
> Good luck - when are you due?
> Anne
1 August. I eat molasses as well. The iron supplements gave me "the constipation from
outer space" it was so unexpectedly extreme.
And for all you worriers, my OB calls me "model patient" in weight gain and blood tests,
etc. My only strike is my advanced age, but I'm thinking youthfully and practising my
breath control. Little Karl kicks day and night.
blacksalt
ObFood: Steamed fresh green beans with lemon juice. Could eat them every day.
Parboiled and then peeled big fresh fava beans. Delicious when dropped into stews.
aec
Ohhhh - I'm so happy for you!!
A baby and right in the middle of the hot season (yikes!)
Well, unless you're over 65, people of your "advanced age" have had
babies before. (I have a an friend who is 40 and has a seven year old
brother. His mom made all the papers...! It was one of those
post-menopausal conceptions done in Italy, because it's not allowed
here in France.)
And I can only imagine you're in good hands.
Let's see...obfood....make sure you have a small mixer which purees
small amounts of vegetables for baby's meals (once he starts eating
"real" food) - that was my most valuable kitchen item when they were
young. That and upteen changes of clothes... ;-)
Anne