Sunday, February 26, 2006

One day I'll make some pretty food...

I don't like plain bananas. It's a texture thing with me, I think. But I've been experimenting with them in other ways the past couple days. Chopping them, covering them in dry-fried oats and some melted dark chocolate and freezing them is delicious. And of course banana bread/muffins/cake is great (and the recipe is usually egg-free to start, bananas and baking powder are egg-replacements)
But this smoothie...man, I'm addicted. We finally got a blender the other day (you know how things are put off, even months after moving?) and I wanted to use it right away. We didn't have berries or anything at the time. Only bananas. So I blended together some ice cubes, soymilk, bananas and vanillin. Sooo good. It turns out totally frothy, and stays that way, unlike cows milk, which would bubble but stay liquid at the bottom. Great way to get some protien into me in the mornings. But, of course it's ugly. Soy milk doesn't have the nicest colour, and neither do mushed up bananas. I don't know how I'll convert anyone if all my yummy food looks so gross lol

In other news, I found this chart today here

I edited it to remove the sections for eggs and dairy. I always talked about getting all my amino acids, but never knew what they actually were. Well, I knew for about two weeks at one point last year in Food and Nutrition class, but forgot after the test. So this is useful. Especially to remind me that corn is actually a grain, not a vegetable.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My favourite fruit smoothie recipe is strawberries, bananas and orange juice. Then there's the SPAM margaritas too... Strawberry, Pineapple, Applejuice and Mangoes.