Munchie Monday: Quick and Easy Smoothie

 Tonight I was edgy to slice some onions and zucchini and make a treat for myself.  I asked Dear One if he wanted some.  As you might expect, his answer was, "How about a smoothie?"  Since I have made a few lately I decided to go ahead and do it.

This is the one I made:

The color does not come through very well but it was a nice purple color.

In the blender I put:

1 cup soy milk
1 ripe banana
1 cup frozen mango (I am trying to empty the freezer...)
1/2 cup frozen blueberries

After blending one minute, I used the canning jar filler to pour the smoothie into the container.  Because it was a smoothie it did not pour well which I could immediately see and decided to use that jar filler rather than cover the counter with lovely purple smoothie.  That worked perfectly.

It tasted good to me and to Dear One who used his new stainless steel straw to suck it up. I went back downstairs to finish cooking the onions and zucchini.  I ate it all. I also ate it all without salt.  Patting myself on the shoulder about that!

Food Friday: Quick and Easy Blender Waffles

Dear One loves enjoys waffles every time I make them. It seemed like time to make them again.  There were some ingredients that needed to be used up so this is what I did:

Quick and Easy Blender Waffles

1 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
1.5 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1.75 cups buttermilk
3 eggs

Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well.  Add the eggs, buttermilk, and oil to the blender jar and blend until smooth.  Add the flour mixture and blend until well-combined.  Cook in your waffle iron that you have sprayed with cooking spray.  Cook for 3 minutes (in our waffle iron).

Things I did differently from Sally's Baking Addiction recipe:  1.  Used the blender; 1. used the whole wheat flour; 3. decreased the sugar; 4. used vegetable oil instead of melted butter plus decreased the amount; 5.  put the last of the heavy cream we had into the bottom of the 2-cup measure then filled to 1.75 mark with shaken buttermilk.  (I have learned that you ALWAYS need to shake the buttermilk before measuring.)



With this batter I made two large waffles.  Since I did not want to put leftovers into the freezer to deteriorate because I forgot they were there and because they never taste as good leftover, at least mine don't seem to, I put the rest of the batter into a storage container in the refrigerator.  We will be seeing waffles again VERY soon!

These last two pieces (half of a large waffle) went down rather easily.  I was a bit depraved and instead of serving them with butter and Vermont maple syrup,  I spread a little honey-roasted peanut butter between them (honey-nut peanut butter I ground fresh when I was at Winco early yesterday morning.  I was so quiet that Dear One did not notice I was gone until I came back home and to bed at 6 AM and woke him up!  I love 24-hour grocery stores!  When you cannot sleep, you might as well do something other than just lie there gritting your teeth every moment you are not sleeping...so I go to the store.  Nice.)