Post Punk Kitchen Forum

now it's a smoothie!

Well now you've made it into something unhealthy.

Why not just call it mushed up frozen banana, scourge of the west?

semantics, I could just pour melted ice cream into a cup and call it a smoothie

but that's a milkshake! smoothies have fruit in it.

ahem...Strawberry Milkshake?

I see this is going the way of cubed or mushy tofu scramble

Milk shakes (or frappes if you're in Massachusetts) are primarily ice cream, with some milk and possibly some fruit. Smoothies are primarily fruit and milk, usually without ice cream.

(Read dairy or non-dairy in there as you see fit. I don't feel like typing out "soy" or whatever in front of everything.)

All this time I thought you were on my side!

This is pretty every recipe in the little booklet that came with my hand blender.

I am on the side of the FRAPPE! (Pronounced "Frap.")

(Because I lived in Massachusetts, see.)

another thing about frozen banana 'ice cream' is that it doesn't really have the same texture as ice cream, either. once they're out of the freezer and start to melt, the bananas immediately get, while still creamy, more 'slimy' than 'milky'.
putting beans in brownies might give them a denser texture, but also make your brownies taste beany, unless you use a lot of cocoa and sugar, which isn't the point of black bean brownies to be 'healthier'? i guess beans would make them protein-filled brownies.
also, tofu in smoothies. yes, even silken. i just got a smoothie that tasted like tofu.

I threw some leftover silken tofu in a smoothie and almost died from the grossness. Totally inedible.

but have you had one from a champion juicer? (and the places that make it with the juicer never let the bananas start thawing. they pull them out of the freezer and shove them through right away. they don't get a chance to get slimy.)

So many nauseating ideas in this thread!

I think the deal is that people claim that you "can't tell the difference" between food processed frozen bananas and soft serve, which is just not true. I like the banana goo when I want something healthy and frozen, but soft serve, it is most definitely not.

Noooooo. In Massachusetts, a frappe has ice cream, a milk shake does not. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

all of you are uninvited from my ice cream social

Yeah, this. The selection of vegan ice creams here sucks (unless you want vanilla in eight different brands), to hit that craving I eat bananas with melted chocolate chips and peanut butter. And you know what? IT TASTES JUST LIKE ICE CREAM.

Except it doesn't, but it hits the spot.

Yes but NO, it's Called a Cabinet! And a milk shake is milk mixed with tonic water and a raw egg (or some similar abomination)

isn't that an egg cream?

No, a Cabinet is a Rhode Island thing, because Rhode Island is full of total weirdos.

but those of us who are saying the texture is spot on are talking about the ones that are made with the champion juicer. not in a food processor.

all Im saying is I have fooled people with my PB Frozen Banana Soymilk food processor soft serve calling it "Elvis Ice Cream"

An egg cream is essentially seltzer water, milk, and chocolate syrup. No eggs involved, and easy to veganize. Sounds weird and gross, but it's pretty good, especially in the summer. My dad, who was raised by lower-East-Side-Jewish parents, used to make them for my brother and me when we were younger.

that sound sound pretty good- I'll try it this summer.