I can press the buttons; I just don't know what to put in them.
When I make smoothies at the group homes, I throw in a few ice cubes, cleaned and chopped fruit - big chunks, like an inch or more of banana, smaller for harder items, yogurt or milk or fruit juice. I've seen banana smoothies include peanut butter. I've heard of people putting various powdered supplements in, such as whey protein. I'm sure you could put a small amount of tofu in with just about anything - including some veggies, to heat up for soup.
I just don't know what to put in them.
Strawberries, bananas, yogurt, ice and fruit juice (OJ or Apple) = smoothie yum!
Also good: mango, peaches, pineapple, apples.
Also good: berries (blue, black, rasp, whatever). I haven't tried making smoothies out of melon, yet, but I suspect it could be good.
You can make soup by blending up vegetables. I like this one a lot.
You eliminate the need to deal with ice for a smoothie if you use frozen fruit. Take it straight from the freezer to the blender. Throw in milk/soy milk/juice, and puree the sonofabitch.
P-C, I ate pudding and jars of baby food.
Good luck with the interview, ChiKat. I hope it works out for you!
Thanks! It's for a school I'd really really like to work at. And, teaching what I want to teach.
use frozen fruit
I do the same thing, Teppy. Easy peasy.
I'll reiterate my one piece of advice: stay away from little seeds. askye's tip about the teabag is a good one too.
My experience with blenders has been that no matter how many buttons a blender has, I only use pulse, slow, faster and liquify. No matter how expensive the blender was, I always eventually get too ambitious about what can be liquified and burn out the motor, so I always buy cheap blenders.
Good luck, ChiKat!
My only blender tip is that you can fill it (as much as it was full of food, that is) with water and a drop of liquid detergent and whirl that up for quick cleaning - makes real cleaning much easier or will do well enough if you are feeling particularly lazy.
I've got an old skool Waring blender that doesn't even have buttons, it just has the switch. I bought it new a couple of years ago-- my MIL and I laugh, because she has the same blender, except hers is nearly fifty years old, a wedding gift.
Suckers LAST.
