Blending Up a Storm

Good evening! Hope you’re all having a wonderful night… everyone excited for LOST?

I’m building up some slack on my DVR right now (I hate commercials!) so I thought I’d give you guys a recap of today’s eats. My new Vitamix got a WORKOUT!

First up, was Natalia Rose’s Pumpkin Pie in a Bowl:

I’ve tried making this before with my OLD blender… and it was unpleasantly chunky. But just 30 seconds in the Vita-Mix, and I had a smooth, velvety, detoxifying soup!

Holy yum. I even have some leftovers for tomorrow!

I also decided to make a Ginger Miso Dressing, to top off my HUGE lunch salad:

I stuffed an entire bag of mixed greens into this salad, along with 1/2 an avocado, sugar snap peas, chopped zucchini, and micro greens. See how creamy the dressing is? The Vita-Mix completely emulsified the olive oil into my dressing, leaving it thick and creamy! The dressing was pretty simple, but full of flavor:

Ginger Miso Dressing
makes about 1 cup

1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons white miso
2 tablespoons fresh minced ginger
1/2 cup olive oil
dash of dulse flakes
liquid stevia, to taste (I used about 10 drops)
dash of pink Himalayan salt
water, as needed to thin

Combine all ingredients, and blend until smooth and creamy!

This dressing came together so fast in the new blender, too! I’m in love!!

My late lunch turned out to be perfect workout fuel– I wasn’t too weighed down to go workout immediately after work! I did 45 minutes of intervals on the elliptical machine, while watching a couple episodes of Friends. I was really glad I was all alone in the gym, because there were a couple times that I burst out laughing! That show never gets old for me.

When dinner rolled around, I just had to come up with another excuse to use my Vita-Mix! I decided I’d make a blended raw soup, to fill my body with some extra enzymes:

This combo was super-simple: a head of romaine, plus a cup of fresh strawberries! I didn’t even add ANY liquid! I just used the tamper to feed it all towards the blades!

A few seconds later, I had a perfectly smooth, blended soup! I served myself half of it immediately, and decided to save the other half for tomorrow:

Even the strawberry seeds were pulverized in that thing! It’s amazing!!

The rest of my dinner was also incredibly satisfying:

Broccoli and zucchini, roasted in coconut oil, minced garlic and salt.

Followed by a bowl of steamed sweet potatoes:

Topped with a bit of organic butter and Himalayan salt. YUM. Real butter really is more satisfying than the fake stuff! And now that we know we want to eat LESS acidic food (as discussed in my last post), let’s compare the pH levels of butter to margarine:

Butter: -3.9

Margarine: -7.6

How about that? Not only does butter taste better, but it’s LESS acidic! Pass the butter, please. (in moderation, of course!)

Alright, I’m off to make some herbal tea and watch LOST! Hope you all have a great night!!