Blood and Kale

Other things I was super stoked to blend? BEETS.

I had a friend at a cafe make me up a juice a year ago or so and she the beets in for energy. Surprisingly delicious! I was accustomed to the beets found in a jar with thick ruby liquid and nasty mushy flavor. Thanks, mom! Since those days ended, I had never had beets again.
After the juice, I vowed to juice a beet.

Fast forward nearly a year to vitamix.

Bam!
I was up at 3:30 this morning for some unknown reason. Tried as I might, sleep was not returning to me. I eventually gave up and decided to throw together a smoothie! Why not, right?!
In this beautiful red concoction was five beets, beet greens, and a banana! Amazing. It tasted earthy and clean.

Smoothie two of the day was a random fruity concoction. I let Spencer choose, since it is his birthday and all. He chose strawberries, banana, pineapple and pineapple juice. Pretty good choices, kiddo!

Last but not least, my new love mixture. Kale, apple, peaches. Spencer, Sophia and I shared this one. Bosslady came walking through the door and Sophia ran to her and said “Mommy, look what Megan made us! A Green smooooothie! I live green smooooothies! “

Win.

I will leave you with this tid bit of an overshare….
It takes 14 hours for a beet smoothie to go through ones system. I thought someone had stabbed my insides.

End overshare.

Carrot Top Of The Morning To You!

I tried carrots in the Vitamix again! Thanks to a wonderful comment on my last post where I bitched about how it turned out, a lovely person chimed in with their input and I’m happy to report, it worked!

Carrots were the one thing I was most excited about blending in my new blender and I’m happy to report now that I have achieved that feat, I can die happy! No juicer needed here!

On to the smoothies of the day….

Cherry Mint Limeaid! All the ingredients you were expecting to find in it!

Ruby Emerald Smoothie had apple, kale, and frozen peaches. The recipe in the vitamix manual called for raspberries but I didn’t have any. Peaches were the most abundant in my freezer so in they went! I was curious if the bitterness of kale would be masked and sure enough, it was!

Did I mention I served my mother kale for the first time the other day?! She loved it! She called me the next day and said “Megan, they were great…. But… Can too many greens give you the shits?”
Oh mother….

Carrot Top Of The Morning To You had romaine lettuce, carrots, and an apple. YEAH, I’m in all sorts of love.

Who needs dinner when you have smoothies?!

Monster Smoothies

So I think I might start posting my daily smoothie intake. Why not?! Maybe it will kick me into Blogging daily which has always been my goal.
First up, two smoothies from the vitamix manual!

Sweet greens smoothie, which had cucumber, spinach, and strawberries. Delicious! It was the one Spencer and I shared this morning!

Next up was the Tropic Tango Smoothie which had half a lime, banana, spinach, and two apples. Not so much a smoothie as a juice, but a hit with Sophia and Spencer! I’m pretty certain I could throw all of the kids daily veggie intake into one drink as long as it had a bit of fruit with it!

Vitamix, I Love You. No, No, I Really Do!

Thanks to QVC and the special they ran a week ago, I am now the proud owner of a Vitamix!

That’s right, bitches.

I’m beaming like a proud new momma!!

I had been stalking the UPS tracking site,waiting for this beast to arrive and checking it every few minutes. Besides excitement, I wasn’t too keen on the idea of it arriving and sitting out in the cold for a few hours, since I was at work. At exactly 6pm on Friday, it arrived!

In all it’s glory!

As I was taking this picture, as you can see in the lower right hand corner, my phone went off. My friend Sarah, who happens to live a few blocks away, summoned me to come hang out. And of course, I brought my lover along.

My lover being my VITAMIXXXX!!!!

Sarah was stoked on the idea of it making hot soup and of course, we felt the need to test this. We were somewhat skeptical because honestly, how the hell does it move THAT fast?!

Yeah well,…….

Do you see it?! THE STEAM?! Yeah, that’s right. Mind. BLOWN.

Addy was amazed by it and kept her eyes constantly glued to the blender. I would adjust the speed and she would jump a little at each and every different sound it made. Silly adorable vegan baby!

After scarfing Strong Hearts pizza that Nick, Sarah’s husband, brought home from work, I headed home.

Oh, but I woke at 5:30am on Saturday to make my first green smoothie!!

The thing dreams are made of.

After my hopes and dreams came crashing down the day I realized by Oster blender couldn’t blend honeycrisp apples, the first thing I threw in this bad boy was, you guessed it, honeycrisp.

Upon arriving home from work, I proceeded to try and blend my next dream item: carrots.

That one…..did not turn out so well.

Perhaps it was because I didn’t blend it well enough? Maybe it needed to go longer? Whatever it was, I ended up having to strain the mixture.

As some of you may know, the reason I don’t own a juicer is because I LOATHE the pulp/waste they create. I assumed with the Vitamix, it would eliminate any sort of pulp. Not in this case. I will of course give it another shot, but my fear is that I will let it run so long, my smoothie will turn into a warm soup.

Meh, either way, I am in love with my newest toy.

Hopefully, I won’t feel the need to own anymore kitchen gadgets! Minus the Excalibur.

I NEED ONE OF THOSE!!

The Calm Before The Storm

I’ve been pretty busy in the kitchen the past few days and I couldn’t be happier! Could it be that my slump is over? Perhaps.

All I can say is just wait until I get my Vitamix on Friday!! This blog will never be the same again…