Holy Blendtec, Batman!!!

It's here! It's here! It's here!!!!!

I can hardly believe it's finally here - the Blendtec blender I've been lusting over for months and months! I finally broke down and bought it for myself as a sort-of birthday present, so happy birthday to me! So long, Toastmaster - Hellooooooo, Blendtec! I think I'm going to name her Marge, because she's definitely large and in charge!

Isn't she gorgeous?!?!?!

This is not your mother's blender. No...she might have a Vitamix, but she doesn't have a Blendtec...at least not the Wildside, 3 qt BPA-free pitcher, 4" blade, 2 hp, 25 preset cycles, 1560 watt Blendtec. :) Um...yeah...my garage door opener is only 1/2 hp...so this is 4 times more powerful than that!

Marge came with an insane cookbook, too. She can make bread dough! Ice cream, soups, pancake batter, smoothies, about 50 different coffee drinks, the list goes on and on. Oh, and she can grind coffee and flour, turn oats and various nuts into milks, and brush my dog! Ok, I lied about that last one...wishful thinking! Since I bought my Blendtec through Green Smoothie Girl, I got a free copy of her ebook, "12 Steps to Raw Foods," and she's got some great green smoothie recipes I plan to try. The train for Smoothieville is now boarding at gate 7...

Fruit smoothie

Sometimes I get totally sick of planning meals. Sometimes I crave fruit like nobody's business. Today, these two things happened simultaneously, and this amazing fruit smoothie was born! I pretty much chucked in anything that sounded good:

an apple
an orange
a banana (or maybe two???)
half a pineapple
about 3/4 cup GF steel cut oats (that's right - OATS!)

I was worried that it would be really liquid-y, but it was actually perfect. I think the bananas helped thicken it, and the oats gave it some depth and density. It filled almost 3 glasses, and I drank them all - YUM!!!

To be taken seriously, this fruit smoothie had to be served in a
Wonder Woman glass!