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Good Housekeeping Blend It!: 150 Sensational Recipes to Make in Your Blender
A new look for a popular Good Housekeeping cookbook!
What could be better than a delicious, fast, and easy treat that’s simple to make and requires little cleanup? From frappes and smoothies to savory soups and delectable dips, here are 150 sensational recipes to make in your blender—all triple-tested for success in the famed Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen. There’s even a section on frozen cocktails.
Enjoy a Blueberry Blast, curl up with a cup of Butternut-Apple Soup, and delight family and guests with Roasted Red Pepper and Walnut Dip or Roasted Eggplant Dip with Herbs. Or try salad dressings, sauces, even batters for pancakes, crepes, and popovers.
If there’s a blender sitting on your countertop, these recipes will keep it whirring!
What could be better than a delicious, fast, and easy treat that’s simple to make and requires little cleanup? From frappes and smoothies to savory soups and delectable dips, here are 150 sensational recipes to make in your blender—all triple-tested for success in the famed Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen. There’s even a section on frozen cocktails.
Enjoy a Blueberry Blast, curl up with a cup of Butternut-Apple Soup, and delight family and guests with Roasted Red Pepper and Walnut Dip or Roasted Eggplant Dip with Herbs. Or try salad dressings, sauces, even batters for pancakes, crepes, and popovers.
If there’s a blender sitting on your countertop, these recipes will keep it whirring!
176 pages, Spiral-bound
First published September 28, 2003
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1,076 books50 followersThe Good Housekeeping Institute was created to provide readers of Good Housekeeping magazine with expert consumer advice and delicious, classic and contemporary east-to-follow recipes. These ideals still hold true today. The institute team are all experienced cooks, home economists and consumer researchers. They test the lastest products in purpose-built, modern kitchens, where every recipe published in the magazine and its range of bestselling cookery books is rigorously tested so that you can cook any Good Housekeeping dish with confidence.
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January 12, 2014
I think I should stop reading these gimmicky cookbooks! With the exception of slow cooker cookbooks they are always TERRIBLE. I want these kinds of books to teach me how to use my appliances to greater effect.
Sailors (like myself) often times have a rule for their ships--if something doesn't have at least 2 uses, it can't come on board. While I don't (currently) live on a boat, I try and have the same rule for my life. If it's not a book I'm going to reread, I don't buy it. If it's not a thing I'm going to use multiple times in multiple ways, I don't really need it. So the idea of making a blender become a real and regular part of my kitchen repertoire was really exciting.
Unfortunately, the book was really lame. All the smoothie recipes relied heavily on pre-purchased (and not particularly healthy) things, like cranberry juice cocktail. The whole smoothie section relies heavily on a variety of juices, in fact. Juices actually aren't that healthy for you (No, really!). They are filled with sugar! Contrary to the popular belief that Juice is "filled with nutrients", juicing a food item removes it's insoluble fiber, meaning that those nutrients can't be processed by your body because they are lacing the 'binder' your body needs to be able to actually ingest said nutrients.
This book wasn't a total flop (I mean, I didn't wish the writers or publishers dead or anything. And hey, I'm a hater so I often DO wish that when I hate a book!!). I was just really bored and unimpressed and moderately disgusted by the amount of sugar most of these recipes contain.
Not my thing, not particularly useful, and not actually healthy.
Sailors (like myself) often times have a rule for their ships--if something doesn't have at least 2 uses, it can't come on board. While I don't (currently) live on a boat, I try and have the same rule for my life. If it's not a book I'm going to reread, I don't buy it. If it's not a thing I'm going to use multiple times in multiple ways, I don't really need it. So the idea of making a blender become a real and regular part of my kitchen repertoire was really exciting.
Unfortunately, the book was really lame. All the smoothie recipes relied heavily on pre-purchased (and not particularly healthy) things, like cranberry juice cocktail. The whole smoothie section relies heavily on a variety of juices, in fact. Juices actually aren't that healthy for you (No, really!). They are filled with sugar! Contrary to the popular belief that Juice is "filled with nutrients", juicing a food item removes it's insoluble fiber, meaning that those nutrients can't be processed by your body because they are lacing the 'binder' your body needs to be able to actually ingest said nutrients.
This book wasn't a total flop (I mean, I didn't wish the writers or publishers dead or anything. And hey, I'm a hater so I often DO wish that when I hate a book!!). I was just really bored and unimpressed and moderately disgusted by the amount of sugar most of these recipes contain.
Not my thing, not particularly useful, and not actually healthy.
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