tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post2417316118430633478..comments2023-05-12T05:10:30.674-06:00Comments on Hamguin's Hide-not: It's a new year, a new set of challenges, and new eyesRick Hamrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09621981388013851089noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-43093729619778895342010-01-23T10:16:12.000-07:002010-01-23T10:16:12.000-07:00Kelly--thanks for stopping by and for the good wis...Kelly--thanks for stopping by and for the good wishes.<br /><br />Jules--we use an old but super juicer made by Acme when Julia wants juice, but the smoothie magic comes from our Vitamix blender. It is an expensive peice of kitchen equipment, but it is amazingly powerful--you can turn veggies which are chopped only enough so they fit into the blender into a smoothie, or into soup! If you put all the ingredients for a creamed soup into the blender, it will literally heat them to a done soup because of the speed of the blender. We're going to do that tonight, in fact. We have lots of leftover stuff from a big salad we had for dinner last night, and tonight all those leftover veggies will become soup.<br /><br />There are two competing blender lines, either of which will work very well for this kind of task: Vitamix and Blendtec. Be prepared, though. You will need about 400 bucks to buy into this party.<br /><br />Before we got our turbo-blending machine, we were making smoothies by first using the food processor to chop the kale, then using a normal-strength blender to get the pieces as small as possible.<br /><br />Now, it takes one-fifth as long and I only have one container to clean. And, of course, the blended result is far nicer: really smooth, instead of mostly so.Rick Hamrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09621981388013851089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-69853604491878944232010-01-23T04:49:36.000-07:002010-01-23T04:49:36.000-07:00Rick - what kind of juicer do you have? I have bee...Rick - what kind of juicer do you have? I have been meaning to get one for quite awhile and now that I've had some dentail surgery and cannot eat solid foods for a few days, well - no time like the present! I admit that I am drawn to the ones that dont make me cut the food into tiny pieces becaus I am lazy like that. I saw the Jack LaLayen one on TV and it looked cool but then I dont want to be one of those suckers that buys stuff off of tv.Rick Hamrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09621981388013851089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-62566817422329895282010-01-22T16:35:48.000-07:002010-01-22T16:35:48.000-07:00So happy for you that you have your sweetie back a...So happy for you that you have your sweetie back again now. Those smoothies sound awesome. I have made those in the past...should get my blender out again.Rick Hamrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09621981388013851089noreply@blogger.com