A few days ago, Lin called out to me, "There's a delivery truck in front
of the house. I'm holding onto the dogs; can you sign for the delivery?"

Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last
night, and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin,
seeds, and all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to make
a sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).

Now I'm pondering what its next use will be....

Bob

"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
b.com...
>A few days ago, Lin called out to me, "There's a delivery truck in front of
>the house. I'm holding onto the dogs; can you sign for the delivery?"
>
> Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last night,
> and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin, seeds, and
> all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to make a
> sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).
>
> Now I'm pondering what its next use will be....
>
> Bob

I'd suggest a nice Margarita for that great wife of yours!

"gave it a whirl" - good one!

Bob Terwilliger wrote:

> Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last
> night, and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin,
> seeds, and all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to
> make a sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).
>
> Now I'm pondering what its next use will be....

Since it can break the seeds I'd go for hot peppers, maybe not too hot:
their better nutrients are in the seeds which our body can't digest.

On Apr 2, 7:59*am, "ViLco" > wrote:
> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> > Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last
> > night, and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin,
> > seeds, and all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to
> > make a sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).
>
> > Now I'm pondering what its next use will be....
>
> Since it can break the seeds I'd go for hot peppers, maybe not too hot:
> their better nutrients are in the seeds which our body can't digest.

If you eat them whole, but no one says you can't chew up the seeds.
Still, that's a great suggestion. I like the taste of seeds from ripe
chilies, and I love tomato seeds. The seed pureeing thing makes that
blender seem much more appealing, especially since I might have a huge
harvest of tomatoes this year.

--Bryan

Bryan wrote:

>> Since it can break the seeds I'd go for hot peppers, maybe not too
>> hot: their better nutrients are in the seeds which our body can't
>> digest.

> If you eat them whole, but no one says you can't chew up the seeds.

Yes, one can chew the seeds up but since they're so many and so small the
majority passes the mouth untouched and thus passes through the stomach and
intestines without being touched.

> Still, that's a great suggestion. I like the taste of seeds from ripe
> chilies, and I love tomato seeds. The seed pureeing thing makes that
> blender seem much more appealing, especially since I might have a huge
> harvest of tomatoes this year.

Some people here started to make EVO oil with some hot peppers, really hot
ones, mixed with the olives since the first pressing process. Nice
concoctions

On Apr 1, 5:10*pm, Bob Terwilliger >
wrote:
> A few days ago, Lin called out to me, "There's a delivery truck in front
> of the house. I'm holding onto the dogs; can you sign for the delivery?"
>
> Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last
> night, and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin,
> seeds, and all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to make
> a sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).
>
> Now I'm pondering what its next use will be....
>
> Bob

Green smoothies, Bob. Delicious, nutritious, healthy, your body
will sing with gratitude.

Sitara wrote:

> Green smoothies, Bob. Delicious, nutritious, healthy, your body
> will sing with gratitude.

Today's smoothie was made from strawberries, a red bell pepper, and a
fairly large (and spicy) jalapeño. After that had blended to smoothness,
I added a touch of heavy cream. It could have used just a touch of salt,
but it was good nonetheless.

Bob

On Apr 5, 11:40*am, Bob Terwilliger >
wrote:
> Sitara wrote:
> > Green smoothies, Bob. * *Delicious, nutritious, healthy, your body
> > will sing with gratitude.
>
> Today's smoothie was made from strawberries, a red bell pepper, and a
> fairly large (and spicy) jalapeño. After that had blended to smoothness,
> I added a touch of heavy cream. It could have used just a touch of salt,
> but it was good nonetheless.
>
> Bob

Green smoothies are usually about 50 50 fruit to greens. Next one
add some spinach in there and see what happens !

Sitara wrote:

>>> Green smoothies, Bob. Delicious, nutritious, healthy, your body
>>> will sing with gratitude.
>>
>> Today's smoothie was made from strawberries, a red bell pepper, and a
>> fairly large (and spicy) jalapeño. After that had blended to smoothness,
>> I added a touch of heavy cream. It could have used just a touch of salt,
>> but it was good nonetheless.
>
> Green smoothies are usually about 50 50 fruit to greens. Next one
> add some spinach in there and see what happens !

Oh, I wasn't fooling myself into believing that it was a GREEN smoothie.
I was just using up some odds and ends we happened to have lying around.
Later in the day I had a strawberry-basil smoothie with balsamic vinegar
syrup, but the basil wasn't even close to 50 percent. That was also
pretty good.

Bob

On Apr 5, 11:40*am, Bob Terwilliger >
wrote:
> Sitara wrote:
> > Green smoothies, Bob. * *Delicious, nutritious, healthy, your body
> > will sing with gratitude.
>
> Today's smoothie was made from strawberries, a red bell pepper, and a
> fairly large (and spicy) jalapeño. After that had blended to smoothness,
> I added a touch of heavy cream. It could have used just a touch of salt,
> but it was good nonetheless.
>
> Bob

The green smoothie I'm drinking right now for lunch is made this
way.... ( I make he blender full, it gives me three lunches)
one ripe pear - pear should be sweet and ripe - quartered, stem
section removed
one apple - nice big crunchy sweet apple - quartered, stem removed
handful of ripe cherry tomatoes
2 huge fistfulls of spinach - probably half a pound of spinach
4 or 5 large leaves of kale (I just break off the tough stem end down
to the point where it leafs out and leave the stem in there -good
fiber)
you must pack the greens in there.
Fill the blender to within about 1 1/2 inches to the top with cold
water.
Start the vita mix on low and then flip up to high to blend.

If you layer the ingredients, pear, tomatoes, spinach, kale, apple, it
has no trouble at all blending the ingredients down. Let it run for
1 minute to completely explode the cell walls of the geens.

This particular recipe is pretty much my favorite. Oh, and I also
add a heaping scoop of spirulina powder to add to the chlorophyl.

On Apr 1, 8:10*pm, Bob Terwilliger >
wrote:
> A few days ago, Lin called out to me, "There's a delivery truck in front
> of the house. I'm holding onto the dogs; can you sign for the delivery?"
>
> Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last
> night, and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin,
> seeds, and all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to make
> a sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).
>


I'm envious and impressed. I know the Vitamix puts all other
'juicers' to shame. I think it COULD get blood from a turnip. Think
of all the healthy stuff you can make. Carrot juice for a pittance -
mumm.

In article m>,
Bob Terwilliger > wrote:

> A few days ago, Lin called out to me, "There's a delivery truck in front
> of the house. I'm holding onto the dogs; can you sign for the delivery?"
>
> Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last
> night, and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin,
> seeds, and all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to make
> a sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).
>
> Now I'm pondering what its next use will be....
>
> Bob

Remember to wear ear plugs to avoid hearing damage... ;P

Don wrote:

>> A few days ago, Lin called out to me, "There's a delivery truck in front
>> of the house. I'm holding onto the dogs; can you sign for the delivery?"
>>
>> Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last
>> night, and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin,
>> seeds, and all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to make
>> a sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).
>>
>> Now I'm pondering what its next use will be....
>
> Remember to wear ear plugs to avoid hearing damage... ;P

I was pleasantly surprised at how QUIET it is. I expected it to rival a jet
engine, but it's actually quieter than our food processor.

Bob

On Apr 1, 8:10*pm, Bob Terwilliger >
wrote:


> Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last
> night, and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin,
> seeds, and all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to make
> a sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).


Sounds pretty powerful. How big do they make them? I want to
get rid of a dead body.

TJ

On Apr 3, 5:38*am, Andy > wrote:


> My BIL saw a Vitamix demonstrated at a food show. He came back with
> wonderous stories about it.
>
> Some men oogle at sports cars. Not him. He went on and on for days about
> it.
>
> To shut him up we gave him one as an early birthday present. He was
> speechless! YES!
>
> To us it was just a shiny metal blender and a LOUD one at that.
>
> To be fair, with their long standing great reputation, their products are
> obviously prized possessions the world round.
>
> Andy

On Apr 3, 5:38*am, Andy > wrote:


> My BIL saw a Vitamix demonstrated at a food show. He came back with
> wonderous stories about it.

> To us it was just a shiny metal blender and a LOUD one at that.
>
> To be fair, with their long standing great reputation, their products are
> obviously prized possessions the world round.



Yes, prized, and obviously too expensive for a guy like me who
still uses a fork to mash beans and garlic and other things. The most
I ever paid for a blender was $30 or so. The glass container slipped
out of my hands a few years back and they don't have replacements. A
few weeks ago I took time from my empty but impatient life to check
out a few blenders at Walmart and most of them had features that I
don't need, as well as, even worse, features I found ugly or
impractical. More marketing. Yeah, let's sell them a blender with a
spout in it and charge extra for the service, because we all know that
nobody really knows how to pour things themselves. If I could afford
a good blender (or a good anything), I'm sure I'd have it, if I wanted
it badly enough. Thank you.

TJ

On Apr 3, 5:58*am, Tommy Joe > wrote:
> On Apr 3, 5:38*am, Andy > wrote:
>
> > My BIL saw a Vitamix demonstrated at a food show. He came back with
> > wonderous stories about it.
> > To us it was just a shiny metal blender and a LOUD one at that.
>
> > To be fair, with their long standing great reputation, their products are
> > obviously prized possessions the world round.
>
> * * * * Yes, prized, and obviously too expensive for a guy like me who
> still uses a fork to mash beans and garlic and other things. *The most
> I ever paid for a blender was $30 or so. *The glass container slipped
> out of my hands a few years back and they don't have replacements. *A
> few weeks ago I took time from my empty but impatient life to check
> out a few blenders at Walmart and most of them had features that I
> don't need, as well as, even worse, features I found ugly or
> impractical. *More marketing. *Yeah, let's sell them a blender with a
> spout in it and charge extra for the service, because we all know that
> nobody really knows how to pour things themselves. *If I could afford
> a good blender (or a good anything), I'm sure I'd have it, if I wanted
> it badly enough. *Thank you.
>
> TJ

Check the thrifts shops - you might spy the glass container you
need. These shops are also a fine source for coffee maker carafes.
Or check ebay - the complete blender might be there and you'll have a
'backup' base..

On Apr 3, 9:42*am, Kalmia > wrote:


> Check the thrifts shops - you might spy the glass container you
> need. * *These shops are also a fine source for coffee maker carafes.
> Or check ebay - the complete blender might be there and you'll have a
> 'backup' base..


I'm 64 years old and have shopped for clothes almost exclusively
at thrift stores since I was a teenager. I've seen some cookware in
thrift stores, a few blenders too - thanks for the suggestion though -
and I'd buy one if one popped into view - but they're so inexpensive
anyway, relatively speaking, that I'll just get one new if and when I
decide I want one bad enough. I just hate the marketing aspect of
things. The marketing itself is interesting, but it's ugly and I
resent the way things bought only a year or two before are removed
from the market to force us to hunt for newer and untested items. The
worst offender of all are athletic shoes. You find a good pair, you
better buy yourself enough to last as long as you think you're going
to live, then store them in a locker. That's the one advantage to
getting older that I've found: the older you get, the more likely
that what you're buying will last a life time.

TJ

On Apr 3, 1:36*pm, Andy > wrote:
> Tommy Joe > wrote:
> > If I could afford
> > a good blender (or a good anything), I'm sure I'd have it, if I wanted
> > it badly enough. *Thank you.
>
> I inherited Mom's Osterizer blender. Probably made before I was born.
>
> It had about 10 speed push buttons. Probably a Cadillac of *blenders back
> in it's day but, when it reached the fastest speed, dogs began barking. <G>
>
> I displayed it for many years then threw it in the dumpster.
>

My mother's Osterizer had two speeds.

"Andy" > wrote in message ...
> spamtrap1888 > wrote:
>
>> On Apr 3, 1:36 pm, Andy > wrote:
>>> Tommy Joe > wrote:
>>> > If I could afford
>>> > a good blender (or a good anything), I'm sure I'd have it, if I
>>> > wanted it badly enough. Thank you.
>>>
>>> I inherited Mom's Osterizer blender. Probably made before I was born.
>>>
>>> It had about 10 speed push buttons. Probably a Cadillac of blenders
>>> ba
>> ck
>>> in it's day but, when it reached the fastest speed, dogs began
>>> barking. <
>> G>
>>>
>>> I displayed it for many years then threw it in the dumpster.
>>>
>>
>> My mother's Osterizer had two speeds.
>
I think my mom's had 3 speeds. Or was it 5? When I moved here I pretty
much had two of everything. My brothers didn't want any of Mom's small
kitchen appliances, so cabinet/ shelf space was a problem. I mentioned to a
neighbor I was thinking giving my mom's blender to the Salvation Army. She
didn't have a blender and gladly took it off my hands.

Jill
> Probably one of the first originals! They seem pretty big on modern high
> speed models today.
>
> You should keep that one!!!
>
> Andy
>

On Apr 3, 5:23*pm, Andy > wrote:


> Probably one of the first originals! They seem pretty big on modern high
> speed models today.
>
> You should keep that one!!!



A lot of new stuff is great, no doubt, but some old things are
just as good. Look what they did with sneakers. It's hard to find a
regular pair of lightweight sneakers with a decently cushioned sole
anymore. They took them away when people began buying $150 running
shoes. Now all those shoe companies are coming back with the old
sneakers and giving them names like "The Minimalist", or "The
Lightweight", or whatever - and that's really great - except they're
garbage and they cost over a hundred dollars a pair. It should be a
law that when a company sells a certain minimum amount of a certain
product it should henceforth be labeled "Classic", not to be removed
from the market for a certain amount of years, if not forever.

If you want the past bad enough, you're going to have to pay
tomorrow's prices for it
TJ

On Apr 3, 4:36*pm, Andy > wrote:


> It had about 10 speed push buttons. Probably a Cadillac of *blenders back
> in it's day but, when it reached the fastest speed, dogs began barking. <G>
>
> I displayed it for many years then threw it in the dumpster.



The noise never bothered me. I'm sure it would if I had a job
working in a kitchen where the blender was going all day long. But
even with the noise it's a luxury item if you want to think of the
alternative of mashing your foods with a fork or stomping them to mush
with your hands or feet. I'll get another one at some point down the
road. I'll go with plastic. I always had glass in the past, then
found out why plastic is not so bad when the glass container slipped
out of my soapy hands and that was the end of that.

TJ

On Apr 4, 9:23*am, Bull > wrote:


> Vitamix is a very nice machine -- but you can do most of what it does
> with a much cheaper blender. *It will be noisier and take you a little
> longer, but the end result will be some whacked to near liquid whatever.
> I couldn't justify one for the price. *Got a blender and a juicer that
> will actually make juice out of a tennis shoe.


What you say is automatically true because even before the
blender existed people had ways of blending and mixing and pureeing
things into submission. Yes, I agree - not always, but most of the
time - the old version is as good or better than the new one, which
was my point in the first place. They take away the old and force you
into the new. In the end I suppose it's ok. I'm an accepting type of
guy. But at the same time I like complaining. You got a problem with
that pal? Yes, are right. Just as the latest machine is just a
blender at heart, the same applies to a lot of things. Some times you
get what you pay for, other times you don't. What really made me
laugh were the Jack LaLanne commercials where he was selling juicers.
He said he'd been using this particular juicer for 30 years. First
thing I thought was, why tell now to tell us about it? You want to
rip something to shreds bad enough, I'm sure you'll find a way.

Thank you,
TJ

On Apr 1, 5:10*pm, Bob Terwilliger >
wrote:
> A few days ago, Lin called out to me, "There's a delivery truck in front
> of the house. I'm holding onto the dogs; can you sign for the delivery?"
>
> Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last
> night, and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin,
> seeds, and all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to make
> a sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).
>
> Now I'm pondering what its next use will be....

I remember all those ads showing people making soup in theirs -- make
some soup.

Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> A few days ago, Lin called out to me, "There's a delivery truck in front
> of the house. I'm holding onto the dogs; can you sign for the delivery?"
>
> Turns out that she got me a Vitamix blender! I gave it a whirl last
> night, and it managed to completely liquefy a pound of tomatoes. Skin,
> seeds, and all became a lusciously-smooth puree (which was used to make
> a sweet-and-sour sauce for red cabbage).
>
> Now I'm pondering what its next use will be....
>
> Bob

Lucky you! Good wife. I see those demos and walk on by. They
are SOOOOO expensive.

--
Jean B.