Buff Smoothie Alton Brown Food

BUFF SMOOTHIE- ALTON BROWN

Steps:

• 1. Combine the soy milk, juice, and fruit in a blender. Cover and refrigerate overnight or up to 8 hours.
• 2. In the morning or when fruit is thawed, blend fruit on lowest speed and slowly increase to medium speed.
• 3. Once medium speed is reached, blend for one minute.
• 4. Serve.
• Note: I just copied this from the foodnetwork site but gave this my own flair. I used lactose free milk but don't see why one couldn't use regular, and used black currant juice. I also added some mango and papaya, sort of omitting the peaches almost all together. You can also use blackberries or any type of dark colored berry to get the addition of the antioxidants, but I can imagine this would taste good with any fruit. If you can't find a certain type of fruit in the frozen section, just buy it fresh, cut it up or wash it, then freeze in a plastic bag.

BUFF SMOOTHIE

Steps:

• Combine the soy milk, juice, banana, strawberries, blueberries, and the peaches in the carafe of a blender. Cover and refrigerate overnight or up to 8 hours.
• In the morning, or when the fruit is partially thawed, put the carafe on the base of the blender, start at the lowest speed and slowly accelerate to medium, until you achieve a vortex. Blend on medium for 1 minute. Increase the speed to high and blend for an additional minute. Serve immediately.

YOGURT, HOMEMADE, FROM GOOD EATS, ALTON BROWN

Steps:

• Place yogurt in a bowl and bring to room temperature.
• Heat milk, dry milk and honey to 120 degrees; pour into a very clean container that will be used to make the yogurt.
• It should cool back to 115 degrees.
• Whisk 1 Cup hot milk into 1/2 Cup room temperature yogurt.
• Add yogurt mixture back to warm milk.
• Wrap container with a heating pad and set on low or medium low.
• Be sure to have the pad wrapped around your container so that the heat is evenly distributed around the container.
• Place inside a stock pot.
• Monitor the temperature of the liquid, your target is 115 degrees (perfect temperature for fementing yogurt) and adjust heating pad accordingly.
• If it gets above 120 degrees you'll kill the active cultures, so use a temp alarm if you have one!
• You can also do this on the heating element of your electric coffee maker, but it doesn't provide the heat as evenly as the heating pad and must be insulated with an oven mitt to prevent overheating.
• Allow to sit for 3-9 hrs depending on the consistency that you disire.
• The longer it sits the firmer it gets.

10 MINUTE APPLESAUCE - ALTON BROWN

Steps:

• In a sealable microwave-safe container, combine the apples with all other ingredients.
• Close the lid, leaving one corner of it open to allow steam to escape. Microwave on high power for 10 minutes.
• Using a hand blender or potato masher, blend to desired consistency. Serve hot immediately or chill for later use.