“WHAT! You Bought a $400 blender?!!!!”

That’s a direct quote from my frugal yet prosperous sister. The year is 1997, I have about fifty cents to my name but I am anxiously awaiting my new (refurbished) Vitamix. Im post divorce, depressed, and able to keep anything but smoothies down due to stress.

Enter the VitaMIx. I know people who have ‘em, they are all over The Farm, I’ve used em for years, so I decide to take the plunge.

So I am outside gardening, weeding, and talking to my sister Blythe on the phone and I see a BOX that the mail carrier had shoved in a hedge. WHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEE, I am so jazzed I cant even speak, just whooping and making a bunch of noise, Blythe’s asking me what’s wrong, but I mostly don’t hear it because I am trying to rip into the box, and finally it penetrates that she is concerned when I hear, “Are you ok, did you see a snake?”

Thats some passion, right?

So I tell her I bought a VitaMix and she is APPALLED, “What, you bought a $400 blender?” I know my sister and there is no way I could explain this to her satisfaction, so I tell her its a good idea for me and just to wait and see.

Since then I have used it daily, and for a brief time Blythe and I lived together, and guess what Slick Rick took with her when she moved? So then who had to buy another $400 blender. Me.

What Am I going to use the VitaMIx for today? I will make a smoothie with some fruit, kefir, frozen berries, Protein plus from Young Living, and what ever else calls to me.

Later I am going to use it to make yogurt: heat up a couple of gallons of milk (1/3 gallon at at time in the VitaMix) , then i will add yogurt to them, place in 2 one gallon glass jars,slip those into the dehydrator with a rubberbanded kitchen towel over the mouth of the jars, set the excalibur timer for 12 hours at 110 degrees, yehaw, we got yogurt.

I might decide to live on the edge and add some powdered milk, it’s supposed to make yogurt mad creamy, and we have some left over from IKE.

And what do I do with all this yogurt? I feed to the dog and my mom!

Supah Love,

rowan

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Blythe says March 22nd, 2009 at 2:15 pm

Wow, that is close to how I remember it…but the part that is really in my mind is when I got to the house and you were using the blender, I thought, “That is it?” I thought a 400 dollar blender would shine and sound like angels singing! But shortly after my first smoothie, I was in love. A few years later and we were living together, I became the smoothie queen to the point where I would hold a class at the Co-Op because people thought my smoothies were A-mazing!!!!

Now I still have the original Vitamix. It is tired but more than 10 years old. We used it as much as a Starbucks uses theirs for the daily frapacino’s. I guess the next one we buy will have to be the Industrial model.

Stephanie Jackson says March 28th, 2009 at 9:47 am

Okay, so I’ve got a Vita-Mix (which I love!), and a cheapo dehydrator. What, besides yogurt, do you use your fancy dehydrator for? Do you know how to make Pat’s awesome kookies that I miss so much and can’t get here (except by the case – not an option!)? I’m not so interested in yogurt, since I do raw milk kefir, and love it. According to Ayurveda, I shouldn’t be doing much raw foods, but I think dehydrated is a pretty good compromise, in most cases. I have at least one friend who I know would love to share a good dehydrator with me, but since hubby’s unemployed, I need to know that it’ll have plenty of uses. Whadya think?

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