{"id":18069,"date":"2021-09-18T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=18069"},"modified":"2021-09-09T09:39:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:39:01","slug":"magic-in-the-food-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/18\/magic-in-the-food-processor\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic in the Food Processor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are times during these last days of summer when I\ncrave a frozen dessert. There are no pints of vegan ice cream in the freezer\nnor do I want to walk or drive to the store. I happily turn to one of my\nseasonal favorites \u2013 banana soft-serve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Some preparation\nis needed for this dessert to happen. It\u2019s based on frozen bananas so when I\nhave overripe bananas on the counter, I peel them, cut them into slices and put\nthem in a container in the freezer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     When I\u2019m ready\nfor dessert, I take out the equivalent of one frozen banana and put it,\nunthawed, in the food processor. I add a spoonful of cashew butter or any other\nnut or seed butter and sometimes a drizzle of maple syrup. I close the food\nprocessor and process until the mixture is creamy \u2013 it comes together around\nthe blades. Other frozen fruits can be added before processing or you can slice\nfresh fruit and use it to top the soft-serve. Vegan chocolate chips and nuts\nare other possible mix-ins or toppings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     That\u2019s it \u2013 in\nabout 3 minutes I have a cold, creamy dessert. It doesn\u2019t keep well so it\nshould be eaten right away. You can double or triple this recipe for more\nservings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     The lovely cup\nholding the soft-serve in the photo is from vegan potter, Molly Cantor. See\nmore of her work here: http:\/\/www.mollycantor.com\/<\/a>\nand here: https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/MollyCantorPottery<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD There are times during these last days of summer when I crave a frozen dessert. There are no pints of vegan ice cream in the freezer nor do I want to walk or drive to the store. I happily turn to one of my seasonal favorites \u2013 banana soft-serve.      […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18071,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions\/18071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}