{"id":10940,"date":"2012-07-12T07:48:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2012-07-12T07:51:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:51:42","slug":"nut-butter-and-an-indulgent-smoothie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2012\/07\/nut-butter-and-an-indulgent-smoothie\/","title":{"rendered":"Nut butter and an indulgent smoothie!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love my Vita-Mix blender!<\/p>\n

I have had it for almost 6 years. Although spendy, I had been burning up a regular blender about once a year AND no way could they liquefy whole fruits and vegetables like the Vita-Mix can. In response to the customer base’s: “We love the blender but it is so tall!” comments, V-Mix came out with a shorter, fatter jar and I recently succombed to purchasing one – perfect! It is a much better fit under my counter AND easier to get things like nut butter out of it.<\/p>\n

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Nut butter! I like to mix almonds, cashews and a few pecans for my nut mix. A pinch of sea salt and just enough sunflower oil to allow it to come together as a butter.<\/p>\n

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It is on the pale side, color-wise as I use blanched almond slices, i.e. no skins. <\/p>\n

I always make nut butter in the morning…when I have some hot coffee left in the pot. My bonus from making the butter is an indulgent smoothie that uses the nut butter I can’t quite get out of the blender. Some hot coffee, milk, dark cocoa, a dollop of yogurt, protein powder, psyllium (fiber!) and even a bit of kale and spinach…you can’t taste the green stuff…<\/p>\n

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A nutty, mocha smoothie: breakfast :) !!<\/p>\n

**** I just picked up a morning email from Swallow Crest Farm:<\/p>\n

Todays’ produce will include:
\n Salad mix
\n Kale and swiss chard-both are good for steaming or stir-fry
\n Bagged baby carrots-thinned from the beds so the remaining carrots size up
\n Peas
\n Cauliflower
\n Basil
\n Cilantro<\/p>\n

Ooooh boy – it will be a GREAT week of cooking from the garden!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love my Vita-Mix blender! I have had it for almost 6 years. Although spendy, I had been burning up a regular blender about once a year AND no way could they liquefy whole fruits and vegetables like the Vita-Mix can. In response to the customer base’s: “We love the blender but it is so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10944,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions\/10944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}