{"id":33,"date":"2007-07-13T07:02:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:21:08","slug":"breakfast-on-the-front-porch-and-the-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/07\/breakfast-on-the-front-porch-and-the-blender\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast on the front porch and THE blender&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/FoodBreakfastBerries300227.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Berries\" height=\"227\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 227px\" title=\"Berries\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still in my VERY early morning wake-up pattern &#8211; 4 a.m. this morning, but it works with the heat wave. After coffee and a few quiet moments it is starting to get light and cool enough to do outside stuff&#8230; this morning checking the strawberry patch was on the agenda.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t see in the photo but there were a couple of raspberries also!\u00a0 I also messed with the motorhome as it is driving me crazy that I can&#8217;t get to the fuse box which I think has the fuse which I think blew causing the hydraulic failure &#8211; shop appointment next Tuesday and I guess I have to wait as this morning&#8217;s attempt was unsuccessful.\u00a0 The last morning chore was a bath for Karl as he spent some of his morning finding something horrible to roll in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m on a food topic&#8230; a short story about THE blender&#8230;\u00a0 A young woman that I worked with briefly and since have kept in touch with &#8211; now via her blog &#8211; took a nutrition course and then wrote (with the help of her new husband) a really\u00a0great and fun\u00a0poem about bioflavanoids.\u00a0 And since bioflavanoids help with some minor problems I was having &#8211; I paid attention and did some more reading and started adding whole citrus particularly to my smoothies.\u00a0 However, an older &#8220;regular&#8221; blender left things pretty thick and pulpy and not all that appetizing and to get things smooth I had to food process and then blend which left a lot of cleanup.\u00a0 Then, oh darn, the blender gave up the ghost &#8211; quit, kaput.\u00a0 So &#8211; great excuse to now buy my dream blender &#8211; a Vita-Mix &#8211; mondo, 5 hp blender said to liquify most anything &#8211; and it does!<\/p>\n<p<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/FoodBlender140318.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Blender\" height=\"318\" style=\"width: 140px; height: 318px\" title=\"Blender\" \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/FoodDrinks300300.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Drinks\" height=\"300\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 300px\" title=\"Drinks\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/FoodPineapple290221.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Pineapple\" height=\"221\" style=\"width: 290px; height: 221px\" title=\"Pineapple\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In goes lemon-ginger green tea, pineapple (which I learned how to cut at my Mama&#8217;s), swiss chard (fresh from my folks garden and transported home), cabbage, ginger, parsley, jalapeno (NOT very much jalapeno!), beets, orange (peel and pith &#8211; the bioflavanoid), some lime also, blueberries, stevia extract (natural plant sweetener), protein powder, plain yogurt &#8211; I know how it sounds &#8211; it tastes great!\u00a0 Fills me up between meals and I get rid of a couple of the annoying problems!<\/p>\n<p>The thing whirs so fast that there is enough friction to heat things up so soup for one is a breeze.\u00a0 I love the darn thing and it is now on the load list for the motorhome &#8211; yea, I try to have the motorhome stocked so there is not much to load\/unload but I can&#8217;t swing 2 of these &#8211; however, said young friend who got me going down this path just acquired one of the magic bullet blenders &#8211; similar thing just smaller &#8211; might work!<\/p>\n<p>TGIF! &#8211; this weekend through Tuesday &#8211; high (100-102) heat forecast, plus very low humidity and possiblity of dry thunder\/lightning storms &#8211; I dearly hope we come through it without a fire start(s) &#8211; now until September rain\/mountain snow is always a scary time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still in my VERY early morning wake-up pattern &#8211; 4 a.m. this morning, but it works with the heat wave. 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