Idgie wrote:Well, it may have failed as a shopping trip, but it succeeded great as an experiment -- now you know that buying those things [fixins for 3 big bowls of banana ice cream] is a bad idea for you.
Yup! Now I know.
The thing that is really interesting, is that I have always questioned the wisdom of having one of those ultra-fancy $400 blenders, but I am finding it nevertheless true that I will happily eat all kinds of salads and raw foods, especially when there is some kind of sauce involved.
Also, everyone knows that if you're going to eat a giant salad, then you want about a half cup of salad dressing -- which is where things go south with any kind of fat-based salad dressing. I don't care if it's a tofu-based dressing, or a cashew based dressing, or an avocado-based dressing -- it's just going to be way too caloric if you eat 1/2 cup of that stuff.
And where the high-performance blender comes in, is that I've realized that ANYTHING can be the base for a salad dressing. People have tended to use cashews and tofu and avocado as their base, because we were stupid and lazy and lacking in imagination!
Shredded zucchini can be the base for a salad dressing. It's pretty flavorless and can be used more or less like tofu, or blended soaked cashews, or (god forbid) olive oil. It's just a flavorless carrier for the items that have flavor.
Fat doesn't have flavor. Fat's kinda gross.
I only know this, because I've been brushing my teeth with a combination of coconut oil, baking soda, and tangerine essential oil. Well, filling your entire mouth with fatty coconut oil is NOT joyful. We have these ridiculous ideas in society that the "mouthfeel" of fat is great. It's not. It's ridiculously gross.
Fat only is great because of the company it keeps. People like extreme fatty hummus, because they associate the fat with a delicious well-made hummus. Also, people (who are stupid and lazy and lacking in imagination!
) have the bad habit of thinking that when another version comes along, that the different version is probably inferior. It's not inferior -- just different.
So, basically, I bought a blender that has a tamper, which is ridiculously helpful for making sauces and salad dressings, and THAT'S the part that made me think of putting a bunch of frozen fruit in a blender and seeing what it could do.
Well, now all the plastic parts are going to smell like garlic, so I won't ever be tempted to make banana ice cream again.