We’re Giving Away a Cuisinart Blender and Food Processor in One
Discouraged by recipes that require a food processor and/or a blender?
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To win Cuisinart’s Duet Blender and Food Processore, tell us what’s your preferred use for a blender: splurge-worthy frozen beverages or anti-oxidant-boosting healthy smoothies? Please include your favorite recipe with your answer to spread the fun or the good health. The best answer takes home the blender/food processor!
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I use one every day to mix my healthy Herbalife Vanilla shake with 1 cup of skim milk, a whole bananna, fresh strawberries, raspberries and some ice. Blend them all together for a thick, frothy healthy shake in the morning and evening that contains a lot of protein.
Homemade pesto: some garden fresh basil, olive oil, and walnut (instead of pignoli to keep heart healthy). Adjust amounts to taste.
I mostly use my blender for two things: strawberries and milkshakes. I puree strawberries to put on my cheesecakes. No special recipe here, just some fresh strawberries and a couple of tsps of sugar. I also use it to make malted milk shakes. Again no real recipe, just some scoops of vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, and milk until the consistency looks right and a few tsps of malted milk!
I currently love to make baby food and need a food processor. Last night I made a pesto. With almonds, roasted red peppers, basil, garlic, and olive oil and served it over mahi mahi. My favorite thing to do with a blender or food processor is make some good soup. Tonight is cream of asparagus. I am practicing for when the asparagus comes to harvest in April and we can enjoy it fresh.
Recipe:
( from the Moosewood cookbook)
2 lbs fresh asparagus
11/2 Tbs butter
2 cups chopped onion
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 Tbs flour
2 cups water
2 cups hot milk
2 tsp dill
1/2 tsp tarragon
Pepper to taste
Chop up asparagus. Melt butter in skillet, add onion, asparagus and salt. Sautee 10 min. Sprinkle in 2 Tbs flour, cook another 5-8 min. Add water, heat to boil, then simmer for 5 min. Sprinkle in last of flour and cok 5-8 min.
Purée soup with milk in portions, return to pot and season with dill tarragon and pepper. Steam asparagus tips and add. Heat gently serve immediately.
I use my blender to make batches of salsa! So delicious and fresh!
One large jar peeled tomatoes
Two cans Rotel
One jalepeno
Four cloves garlic
Cilantro
1/3 cup grated onion
Lime juice
Salt
Pepper
Cumin
Blend, refrigerate for 24 hours, and enjoy!
Smoothies are my fave, especially in the summer. All those glorious combinations of fruit – you can even sneak in a veggie or two to up the healthy goodness. Endless variety!
SMOOTHIE Smooch
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup fresh fruit of your choice
6 – 8 oz vanilla or plain yogurt
6 – 8 ice cubes
Place first 3 ingredients in a blender. Blend on low. Increase to medium as you carefully add each ice cube individually. Process on high for 30 seconds.
A luscious way to increase your calcium and fruit intake without added sugar!
I could really use the food processor to help me whip together my sweet potato cornbread muffin batter.
to use an appliance that does 2 jobs in one opens my mind to endless possibilities ! Mmmm the salsa;the coleslaw;the milk shakes; the deserts;the sauces;I can make-watch out famous chefs here I come!!!
1 can limeade,1 can water ,1 can gin (good stuff) .Put in blender, add ice.Their called bullfrogs. Oh forgot main ingredients. 4 high school friends, a table , and some cards.
My old blender shot craps and my food proccessor has harvest gold flowers on it. Help an
lady out please.
Our favorite blender recipe is a sinfully good and super-easy piña colada:
3 tbs coconut cream (we use Coca Casa brand)
1/2 cup canned crushed pineapple (drained)
3 shots light rum
2 cups ice
Maraschino cherries
Combine first 4 ingredients in blender and blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and garnish with cherries. Makes two large glasses or 3 more modest ones.
I have a favorite ham salad recipe from my mother that is only right if you make it in a blender. Put 1 cup diced or chunked ham, 3-4 sweet pickles and about 2 Tablespoons sweet pickle juice in blender, pulse to finely chop. Remove from blender and mix in desired amount of Miracle Whip, starting with 1/4 cup. Resulting ham salad is the best you’ve had! In my case it is made all the more appealing by the memories it brings back of my mother making this simple salad on hot summer days.
Milkshakes!!!! Who doesn’t love a good, thick, cold milkshake on a warm summer day!!?!?
I’d love to use a blender to make milkshakes at home! Chocolate syrup with vanilla ice cream and a banana to make it yummy! I use to use a blender to make enchilada sauce. That was YEAR AGO!!! I fogot all about it. I’ll have to search for my recipe and try it again. I have gone to using canned enchilada sauce without having a blender.
Splurge-worthy frozen beverages or anti-oxidant-boosting healthy smoothies? Well, I really love BOTH, but there are very few “healthy” smoothies that my children will actually drink….let alone ASK FOR!!! This is one of them….
Although it tastes like one of those iconic vanilla-and-orange popsicles, this creamsicle breakfast smoothie is a complete and balanced breakfast with carbohydrates, protein (and thanks to the addition of coconut water, essential electrolytes.) Coconut water provides just over 10 percent of your daily dose of potassium—an electrolyte you lose through sweat—in every cup, making it a great hydrator for light workouts. Plus, this creamy orange-mango smoothie only contains about 30 mg of sodium per cup, whereas sports drinks usually deliver about 110 mg of sodium per cup.
• 1 cup cold pure coconut water, without added sugar or flavor (you can find this in your
grocery store’s bottled water section)
• 1 cup nonfat vanilla Greek yogurt
• 1 cup frozen or fresh mango chunks
• 3 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate
• 2 cups ice
Blend together until smooth!
We are vegans so we are constantly using a blender. We buy inexpensive ones and they burn out on us pretty quickly so it would be a dream to own these Cuisinart beauties. Our favorite smoothie recipe is the Strawberry Banana Tofu Blender:
1 Cup Plain Soymilk
10 0z. fresh strawberries if available, or you can use a package of frozen berries – thawed
1 small ripe banana peeled and sliced
1/4 Cup Honey
1 package of Silken Soft Tofu, drained
2 Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice
Just a pinch of salt
To make it look really special, puree your berries first, remove them and rinse your blender
Combine remaining ingredients and puree until really smooth
Divide this mixture into your glasses then spoon the berry into the side of each glass.
Looks and tastes fantastic. A truly wonderful morning will be had by all.
smoothies! banana, strawberries ice and apple juice
Keri
I like to use a blender for:
Strawberries
Banana
Milk
Protein Powder
Yummmm!
Margaritas!
My favorite blender recipe is raw cranberry relish (for Thanksgiving and Christmas or anytime you can get cranberries). It’s 1 whole orange, 2 cups cranberries, 3/4 cup sugar. Quarter the orange, Remove seeds. Grind the orange to a fine pulp. Add 1 cup cranberries and blender-chop. Empty into a bowl. Blender-chop the remaining cranberries. Add to the mixture in the bowl. Stir in the sugar. Let stand at least 30 minutes. I would love a new blender-food processor. My old processor has decided to be stubborn and not fit properly so it does not get used.
In the summer time, I definitely prefer my blender to produce some great Mango Margeritas!
1.25 oz Tequila
1 oz Triple Sec
1.5 oz Lemon Juice
2 Sweet/Sour
3/4 Cup Partially Frozen Mango — Unsweetened
Put all ingredients in Blend & Blend Until Smoooooooth.
Pour into Chilled Margarita Glass & Garnish w/ Fresh Mango.
Enjoy!
My healthy anytime smoothie:
1cup nonfat Greek yogurt
1 cup reduced sugar orange juice
1cup fresh spinach
8 frozen strawberries
1 banana
1 tablespoon ground flax seed
blend all and enjoy!
I mostly use mine for fruit smoothies, but once a while, I whip up some frappe’s!
I make milkshakes for my grandkids and fruit or veggie salsas. Sure could use this! Mine has about gone out , needed to buy a new blender…..
I am home and cooking more since the company I had worked for for more than 30 years closed. I would love a food processor, Oh the things I could do! My blender stopped working recently while i was making one of our favorite recipies. So I really need both of these products which would be a wonderful addition to my kitched. Thank you Southern Living for offering these products to those of us who love your magazine and books.
I use my sad old food processor to make hummus…yummus! I modified the great recipe from the blog Confections of a Foodie Bride.
Ingredients
3 T lemon juice
1/4 cup water
6 T Tahini
2 T olive oil, plus more for drizzling
15-oz chickpeas (I cook dried ones and freeze the portion that I don’t use)
3 garlic cloves, peeled
1/2 t salt
1/4 t cumin
dash of cayenne
Combine the lemon juice and water in a small bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the Tahini and olive oil together until smooth. Process the chickpeas, garlic, salt, cumin, and cayenne in a food processor until almost fully ground, about 15 seconds. Scrape down the bowl. With the food processor running, stream in the lemon and water and process for one minute. Scrape down the bowl again. Turn the food processor on and stream in the Tahini and oil mixture and process until smooth, about another minute. Transfer the hummus to a bowl, cover and refrigerate for an hour to let flavors blend.
A strawberry/banana smoothie with bananas, strawberries, vanilla yogurt, ice and a little skim milk. For my husband (tall, slender and able to eat anything) a chocolate shake with ice cream, chocolate syrup and SKIM milk (he says he doesn’t want to over do it -heheheh)! I have always used a blender, but want a food processor for other recipes. Thanks!
Splurge worthy, definately. I love to make a milkshake with vanilla ice cream, using egg nog instead of the milk and adding a little nutmeg as well. I do try to use lowfat ice cream to keep it a little healthier
I use mine primarily for smoothies: protein powder, a cup of frozen fruit, 1/2 cup of plain greek yogurt, and a packet of Trivia.
Who doesn’t like milkshakes or smoothies? I know everyone at my house does! Especially the “grand ones”. Most of the time when I make them for my five year old grandson instead of pouring them up in a glass I have a small orange rubbermaid mixing bowl with handle that I pour it up in. I don’t know how I got started using it? But if I pour them up in a glass or mug Grayson tells me that isn’t what we drink it out of. We then get two straws and Grayson and I will sit on the couch drinking our milkshake or smoothie out of that mixing bowl. He will take a drink and then say, “okay, Grammie it is your turn now” or he may say, “did you get a brain freeze too?”. Just making memories!! I want my grandsons as they get older and when they are a lot older to reflect back on the happy times of their childhood and something as silly as making milkshakes or smoothies and sharing it out of a mixing bowl!
Banana Berry Smoothie
1 cup milk 1 banana
3 large strawberries 1 tablespoon vanilla yogurt
1 teaspoon honey
In a blender, combine milk, banana, strawberries, yogurt and honey. Blend until smooth. Pour into glass and serve.(or our case a small mixing bowl)
Milkshakes
Your favorite ice cream and milk…………. put in blender and serve!
Make some memories with your little ones, get a special glass to use (or even a mixing bowl). Make it fun!!
Current blender is an avocado green, 40 year old Hamilton Beach and it works great. It has made many milkshakes for my children and their neighborhood buddies. A favorite meal on a hot summer day when it was too hot to cook and children didn’t want to stop playing long enough for a sit-down meal was crispy grilled cheese, sliced apple with grapes and a creamy milkshake.
I Used my blender for everything, In my last move A box of my kitchen equipment was lost,
Funds R tight at the moment, have not been able to replace anything, Would luv to have
this would replace 2 pieces of my kitchen equipment, About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends, Herbert Hoover, would move me closer to the ends.
My preferred use for a blender/food processor is to make hummus! Not just any hummus, Spicy Sweet Potato Hummus! Absolutely delicious and better yet, you can make it ahead of time and freeze it for your party, rainy day, etc! I am still using the blender I had in college – I am now almost 30 and could use a nice new blender to continue making my favorite dips!
Spicy Sweet Potato Hummus
Yield: 3 cups
ingredients:
2 large sweet potatoes (or 2 cups mashed sweet potato)
3 garlic cloves
1 15 oz can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1/4 cup tahini
1 lemon, juiced
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon cumin
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper, to taste
1/2 teaspoon salt
directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Wrap each sweet potato with foil. Bake for 45 minutes to an hour, or until tender. Peel sweet potatoes, set aside.
In a large food processor (or blender), puree garlic cloves and chickpeas. Add tahini, lemon juice, olive oil, brown sugar, and spices. Puree until smooth. Then add sweet potatoes and puree until completely combined.
Serve immediately with pita chips or store in an airtight container in the fridge until ready to serve. This makes a LARGE amount of hummus and is perfect to freeze! To freeze, place in a freezer safe ziplock bag and ensure there is no air in the baggie and freeze for up to 3 months.
I use my blender for making delicious smoothies, homemade salad dressings and milkshakes. I live in Florida and absolutely adore tropical fruits. I particularly love to make it when I’m missing the beach. I pop an umbrella straw in the glass, sit outside on my lanai, sip my smoothie and instantly become a mind traveler.
15 1/4 ounces tropical fruit, undrained (1 can)
3/4 cup pineapple juice
1 cup non-fat vanilla yogurt
1 small banana
3/4 cup ice cubes
Combine tropical fruit, pineapple juice, yogurt, juice, banana, and ice cubes in blender. Cover and blend until smooth.
No particular recipe, but I love the frozen drinks, maybe with some strawberries and tequila!
My best friend introduced me to this “go-to” cocktail recipe while we were college students in Texas — this Icy Watermelon Mojito was pretty much the only way we survived Houston from August through October! I live in South Carolina now, and she’s coming to visit in June…and already requesting our “signature” drink. Only problem? I don’t have a blender! Help a girl out, ‘Southern Living!’
Icy Watermelon Mojito:
Place five cups cubed, seeded watermelon pieces on a baking sheet and freeze for about 2 hours. Combine frozen watermelon, 1 cup chilled sparkling water, 3/4 cup white rum, 1/4 cup chopped fresh mint, and 1 (6-ounce) can frozen limeade in a blender and process until smooth. Garnish with mint sprigs and lime slices, and enjoy!
Elizabeth Bartlett
I have just about worn out my blender making smoothies. It is one way I can sneak some healthy fruit and veggies into my diet and my husband’s! He prefers snack foods to healthy and I’d like to keep him around for a while! We’ve been married 39 years and have owned only 3 blenders…they’ve lasted a while. I would love to have a new blender to have on hand when this one dies!
frozen beverages
Fruit smoothies – just started adding a handful of spinach too and you can’t taste it and kids love them.
Healthy smoothies! Thanks to my daughter I finally have the diet and the exercise working together. I have RA and feel better than I have in quite a while. I’ve lost 15 pounds and dropped 2 sizes in my Levi’s.
I am in much need of a new blender. The current one I use is a vintage Osterizer Blender. It belonged to my mother-in-law before her passing 10 years ago. It still works, but not like a new one would. I have two favorite recipes I use with my blender. Some will say I am a yo-yo dieter, but I don’t think so because I am actually on a diet all the time. My favorite dieting drink/meal recipe when I am on my weight loss diet is a “Peanut Butter and Banana Smoothie” recipe. I will drink this smoothie in place of one meal every day. The ingredients: ½ cup fat-free milk, ½ cup fat-free plain yogurt, 2 Tbsp creamy peanut butter, ¼ ripe banana (I sometimes use a half a banana and eat the other half), 1 Tbsp honey, and ice cubes. Combine all the ingredients in the blender and blend until smooth. I love this recipe because I love bananas and I love peanut butter and I love peanut butter on my bananas! The longest I have stuck with this eating habit has been about 3 ½ months, and after then it is time to break out my other favorite recipe which consist of lots of vanilla ice cream, a little milk, and a little bit of vanilla flavoring and called a Vanilla Milk Shake. I will drink my Vanilla Milk Shake any time of day, and sometimes with a full meal. I call that my weight gain diet. So as you can see, I am not a yo-yo dieter, as I am on a diet all the time!
I use the blender to make milkshakes and frozen coffee drinks
We use our food processor and blender every day. Smoothies in the morning, prepping soup vegetables for lunch and more vegetables for dinner. Here’s one of my favorite recipes for the blender from Giada De Laurentis:
Apple Salad Dressing
1/2 Granny Smith apple – peeled, cored, chopped
3 Tbl apple cider vinegar
2 Tbl maple syrup
1 Tbl fresh lemon juice
1/3 C olive oil
1/2 tsp Kosher salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
Blend until smooth. Excellent dressing over fresh baby spinach or tender Bibb lettuce. Garnishes of sliced avocado, toasted walnuts, and/or thin slices of cooked salmon or chicken breasts complete the dish.
Now I have made this in both a blender and a food processor, but blender makes pouring easier. This Cheese Cake Cream has multiple uses and is always a hit how ever I decided to use it. I have cake pans with a well in them (old Duncan Hines Tiara Dessert pans I got at the thrift store), so you can poor and top the cakes with items and have it not pour over the side. My favorite, is a chocolate cake, the Cheese Cake Cream, topped with strawberries and drizzled with chocolate sauce. You can make the Cheese Cake Cream so quick and pour into any pie crust shell and top with what ever you desire. You can make the Cheese Cake Cream into delicious, divine fruit parfaits.
Cheese Cake Cream
One large box of “instant” Jello Pudding and Pie Filling (Flavor of your choice, that will fit what you are going to use it for; let your imagination go)
1 large 8 oz. brick of “cold” cream cheese cut in small chunks (Seriously the cream cheese needs to be cold)
1 cup cold heavy cream or half and half cream
You may also add a touch of flavoring or liqueur.
Place in blender or food processor and thoroughly blend, scrapping the sides, until creamy and smooth. Pour into pie shell, or make parfaits, or whatever your imagination can come up with. It will thicken as it is cooled. It is stiffer and thicker that pudding. It is too fast to make and so versatile and on a hot summer day no cooking, and all that summer fresh fruit to work with.
Definitely a frozen beverage! I found this online and change it up depending on what fresh fruit I have on hand…… whether it is delicious Louisiana strawberries, Georgia Peaches, even mangos, blackberries or blueberries…….
Riesling Slushy
Ingredients
3 cups frozen fruit or your choice(peaches, strawberries, mangos, blackberries, etc.)
1 bottle sweet Riesling or dry Riesling
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
3 tablespoons sugar if using dry Riesling(omit if using sweet Riesling)
Reserve 1 cup of the Riesling.
In a food processor, puree fruit with the remaining wine, lime juice and sugar. Pour the mixture into ice cube trays and freeze until solid. When you’re ready to serve, puree the ice cubes with the remaining wine.
I can use a new blender! I like to make healthy protein shakes.i purchased a very less expesive single cup blender, but used sooo many times, it is getting worn out! I need to buy a new one!
I use small can of pineapple juice (not from concentrate)
5 pieces of frozen pineapple
1 scoop of whey protein vanilla Creme powder
1 handful of frozen raspberries
My 12 & 14 yr old boys love making shakes or smoothies
They use frozen yogurt or ice cream and skim milk
We also make salsa during the summer with fresh produce from the local farmers market.
Man……thinking of that, makes me want summer here!!! After having snow all day yesterday!
It would be GREAT to win! A nice winter pick-me-upper!
Love to throw any fruits in the blender to make fresh juices!
healthy smoothies and mix ingredients for homemade whole wheat flour tortillas !!!
Smoothies, and here is my favorite:
1 cup guava nectar
1 cup unsweetened whole-milk yogurt
1 cup fresh strawberries
1 banana
1/4 cup honey-sweetened wheat germ
Caramelized Banana Shake (aka banana’s foster, in a shake). So simple, so indulgent. Caramelize the bananas in brown sugar and butter in a non-stick pan. Once slightly browned, add to a blender with vanilla ice cream and milk, and there you have it! I have been using my boyfriend’s blender from college (6 years ago) and could really use this new, reputable brand of a blender! Thanks!
I like to make decadent ice creams and desserts in the blender.
8 chocolate candy bars (of your choice, ie. Snickers, Milky Way, Almond Joy, Butterfinger)
12 oz. can evaporated milk
1/2 c sugar
16 oz. heavy cream or half-and-half
1 tsp. vanilla
Melt 8 candy bars in small pan. Add small amount of milk to help dissolve candy. Blend melted candy, can of evaporated milk, sugar, heavy cream and vanilla. Add blender contents into 4 quart ice cream freezer and freeze.