ROTD: Strawberry Salad Smoothie

Starting off the year on a healthy note never anyone in our book. We promised ourselves that we were going to eat as little processed or pre-prepared food as possible this year, we wanted to put this incredibly healthy recipe up for everyone to try out. This Strawberry Salad Smoothie recipe makes for a gluten-free & vegan beverage that will surely help power you through the morning as well as help cleanse the body of a lot of the artery clogging goodies we consumed throughout the holiday season.

Enjoy.

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Vitamix. The Ultimate Kitchen Tool, No Home Should Be Without.

Use the right tool for the right job and you will find yourself doing a lot less work, this is a simple but true fact. Having the proper tools on hand when the time calls for them makes life that much more fulfilling in a sense. You had the thought before hand that in life you may need something, so you went out and bought it and sure enough it was called upon to join you in battle one day.

For instance, your having a party and you run out of food or drinks and need a quick way to whip something up, but don’t want to dirty up the house or go overboard at the moment, so what do you do? 

Well if you had a Vitamix blender, you would easily be able to CREATE something from scratch with a few flicks of a switch, turns of a dial and of course some carefully selected ingredients.

Not too often in the kitchen can entire meals be made with one machine from start to finish, but such is not the case in regards to the powerhouse of a machine labeled the Vitamix Professional Series 300. (click Read More, for the entire review)

The Supreme Plate Summertime Smoothie

The Supreme Summertime Smoothie -

Ingredients:

1 cup crushed Pineapple (juice included)

1 cup frozen Mango (if using fresh mango, ad ¼ cup)

1 Peach (washed, peeled, pitted and cut into quarters)

2 heaping scoops of Vanilla Bean Ice Cream (any brand you prefer)

¼ - ½ cup of Club Soda

a few dashes of Honey

1 Cinnamon stick

1 cup of Ice

Directions:

Place all the ingredients into the Vitamix blender, secure the lid and place a hand over the top.

Turn the blender to variable 1 and turn the machine on. Slowly increase the variable to 8, then 10 then high. If the motor sounds as if it stopping or getting caught up by the ice, reduce the speed and let the cubes get broken down or add a bit more Club Soda to smooth out the mixture.

Blend on high for about 45 seconds and pour into chilled Rocks Glasses.

Garnish w/ grated Cinnamon and place the remaining Cinnamon stick in the glass.

If the drink is still too tart for your liking, add a bit more Honey or your favorite sweetener

Enjoy!!!

Recipe Of The Day: Frosty Basil Lemonade

If your going to be outside for any length of time, the number one thing you must remember is to stay hydrated. The intense heat that the entire nation is suffering from, mixed with all of the bad air and humidity is crippling to say the least. The worst part about having to suffer through endless weeks of high temperatures is being inundated with flavorless water to keep the brain functioning. Today being National Lemonade Day, we are going to give everyone a drink they can enjoy to the last drop and we mean everyone whether you’re vegan, on a gluten free diet, Kosher, Halaal or just looking to have something low in cholesterol, this drink is for you.

Simply pour all of the ingredients in the blender and give it a bit of time to work its magic and Voila, you have something that the entire family will enjoy sipping on, whether its after going swimming, right before dinner or even before heading out in the morning to face the blistering heat, this Frosty Basil Lemonade is just the right blend of Earthy freshness and cool refreshing sweetness.

Enjoy!!

The Vitamix Frosty Basil Lemonade –

Ingredients:

3 cups Cold Water

1 ½ Lemons, (peeled, halved & seeded)

¼ cup Sugar (or other sweetener such as Nectresse)

½ cup Fresh basil Leaves (washed thoroughly)

1 cup Ice Cubes

Chilled Glasses

A few slices of Lemon for Garnish (optional)

Directions:

Place all of your ingredients (in the order listed) your Vitamix blender and secure the lid

Select Variable 1

Turn the Machine on and slowly increase the speed to variable 10 and blend for 1 minute or until the desired consistency has been reached.

Pour over ice into chilled glasses and garnish with Lemon.

Enjoy.

This Isn't Your Mothers Blender (But It Should Be Yours.)

Blenders these days are available in an abundance and are being built to serve a multitude of functions. Some are meant to merely chop and erase the hard work it takes to slice and dice a few items, while others are built to perform a wide range of culinary tricks that help enhance every single dish, drink and dessert they touch.

Creating perfect emulsifications, soups and smooth purees for one of the billions of dishes being made today in homes and restaurants around the globe, requires a solid piece of equipment that can perform time after time (without fail.)

Chef’s and bartenders alike know the name Vitamix^® and now so should you.

For those of you who watch Iron Chef or any one of the other million or so cooking shows you may have noticed that 9 times out of 10 the Chefs are relying on this brand, simply because they work EVERYTIME.

Before now Vitamix^® were a bit expensive for the average household to own because let’s face it how often does the typical household use a blender?

From the innovating leader in professional-grade blenders, the new Vitamix^® Professional Series 500 enables you to dial up hundreds of healthy and delicious culinary masterpieces. 

This is the first Vitamix^® model with three preprogrammed settings – Smoothies, Frozen Desserts and Hot Soups – to help home chefs make gourmet meals like the pros.