I'm so excited! I received my Vitamix Turbo VS on Friday. Since we were "Wildtree-ing" it on Saturday I wasn't able to experiment with it until Sunday. But when I was able to - I ran with it! We watched the DVD that came with the Vitamix and I was so excited I also got a UNcookbook and Nut Milk Bag along with it! I made a Smoothie for my husband that had dairy ice cream in it (he's far from veg) and for me I did Almond Milk and Frozen Raspberries and it was GREAT! Later in the evening I made this Chedda Sauce - which was a recipe that was featured in the book that came with it but I tweaked it a bit. Here's what's in this sauce...
3/4 C Pine Nnuts
1/2 C Sunflower Seeds
1 Red Bell Pepper
1 T Lemon Juice
2 T Nutritional Yeast
1 Clove Garlic
2 tea Bragg's Liquid Aminos
With the few things I have done with my new Vitamix so far I have noticed a few things I want to point out! One...when doing seeded fruit smoothies - in other blenders - even with my Ninja's - you get each seed IN the smoothie. With the Vitamix - there are very few seeds to deal with. Two...with the 'cheese' sauce - no trace of nuts - or chunks - completely smooth! Even fluffy! Getting use to the variation and speed increases is the only real difference - that and having the handy tamper. I was nervous about running it too long but apparently that's the best part! I just have to remember it was designed for things like these!
Another thing I have been up to lately...Sprouting! I mentioned that last week and just took these little sprouts out last night! Aren't they wonderful? The ones pictured here are Red Clover Sprouts. Last night I started soaking more. This time around I am doing a blend - a 3 part salad mix - of Radish, Alfalfa, and broccoli sprouts. This was one of the blends from my Green Sprout Kit that I blogged about last year. My goal is to start another different one mid week. I will keep you posted on that!
Last night I moved these and other items that I had out on my counter top into a cool, dark place...a kitchen cabinet...above my larger freezer. My Ninja's were there. I ended up moving my Ninja's up a shelf and added these items to the existing shelf. I am the type of person that needs to SEE everything or I will not use it. I had refrained from doing this for that reason. My husband is the opposite and I know it drove him NUTS so I finally decided to move these items out of site. So now there is a nice chunk of the counter top that is free again. I think I will use it for herbs and sprouting. Tonight I will be working on another nook of the kitchen as well.
