smoothies and soup and pancakes
Mar. 29th, 2011 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynA lot of my food has been smoothies lately. These are generally made with bananas and frozen fruit. I like the mango+strawberry+cherry-berry-blend combination pretty well. I thought about making the peanut butter & banana ones again but that wasn't so enticing.
It honestly helps if you microwave the fruit for a minute or so before blending. It's still cold, but the blender does a much better job. I've been using the two cup method where I put the yogurt and banana in one cup and blend those while the fruit is microwaving with a splash of juice. Then I blend the fruit, then mix the liquids... it keeps there from being stuff slopped over the edge of the glass.
Last night I microwaved the whole smoothy for a hot creamy soup. It was tasty but got a bit cloying.
Soup in a box... a few months ago I got squash+mango soup which was quite tasty, but when I was grocery shopping, I completely spaced the soup at the good store, so I picked up a couple boxes from Trader Joes when I was there (buying the frozen fruit). I liked the carrot-ginger flavor okay, but the low-salt tomato was icky. Haven't tried the low-salt squash soup yet.
Today I made pancakes. Now I can't really chew anything. If it just needs smushing, that's fine, so I knew I would have to have very wet pancakes. They can't just be undercooked because that's dangerous with eggy things. I didn't want to just add a gob of syrup (first, no syrup; second, ewwww.) So I melted some sugar (about 1.5T) in a saucepan, straight sugar no water or anything, so I had to watch it really close. Then I added about 1/3 C milk. The milk turns that caramel color and got all sweet. This was poured over my pancakes and made them all soggy. Normally soggy pancakes are gross and I don't necessarily recommend this, but I really enjoyed being able to have food that wanted.
Today I went outside for the first time in almost a week. It was nice to have a world-expanding moment for contrast.
It honestly helps if you microwave the fruit for a minute or so before blending. It's still cold, but the blender does a much better job. I've been using the two cup method where I put the yogurt and banana in one cup and blend those while the fruit is microwaving with a splash of juice. Then I blend the fruit, then mix the liquids... it keeps there from being stuff slopped over the edge of the glass.
Last night I microwaved the whole smoothy for a hot creamy soup. It was tasty but got a bit cloying.
Soup in a box... a few months ago I got squash+mango soup which was quite tasty, but when I was grocery shopping, I completely spaced the soup at the good store, so I picked up a couple boxes from Trader Joes when I was there (buying the frozen fruit). I liked the carrot-ginger flavor okay, but the low-salt tomato was icky. Haven't tried the low-salt squash soup yet.
Today I made pancakes. Now I can't really chew anything. If it just needs smushing, that's fine, so I knew I would have to have very wet pancakes. They can't just be undercooked because that's dangerous with eggy things. I didn't want to just add a gob of syrup (first, no syrup; second, ewwww.) So I melted some sugar (about 1.5T) in a saucepan, straight sugar no water or anything, so I had to watch it really close. Then I added about 1/3 C milk. The milk turns that caramel color and got all sweet. This was poured over my pancakes and made them all soggy. Normally soggy pancakes are gross and I don't necessarily recommend this, but I really enjoyed being able to have food that wanted.
Today I went outside for the first time in almost a week. It was nice to have a world-expanding moment for contrast.
