Horchata

This recipe is taken from allrecipes.com and is called Lola's Horchata. It turned out great the second time Paul made it - look at my tips below.
Ingredients:

• 5 cups water
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 1 cup uncooked white long-grain rice
  

Directions:

1. Pour the rice and water into the bowl of a blender; blend until the rice just begins to break up, about 1 minute. Let rice and water stand at room temperature for a minimum of 3 hours.
2. Strain the rice water into a pitcher and discard the rice. Stir the milk, vanilla, cinnamon, and sugar into the rice water. Chill and stir before serving over ice.

Tiff's Tips: Break up the rice really good in the blender. Then let it stand for 8 hours to really give it a good rice flavor. I might even suggest adding only 4 cups of water, so it's a little more concentrated in rice flavor (but I haven't tried that yet - you could always add more water if it was too strong). I cut the original amount of cinnamon in half, it was too powerful!

Chocolate Banana Peanut Butter Shake

I tweaked April's recipe for my family. Thanks April - this is our new favorite.

1 1/2 cups skim milk
1/2 cup powdered milk, dry
3/4 cup hot chocolate mix (from cannery)
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
5 cups ice (or two ice cube trays)
1/2 cup peanut butter
1-2 bananas

Mix all together in blender. I use my VitaMixer - love this machine. You can leave out the bananas and peanut butter if you just want a chocolate shake. My family likes it with everything included. This is a sweet, yummy shake!

healthy peanut butter shake

This originates from a recipe in my Blendtec recipe book- I just added peanut butter. This is a fast delicious snack that isn't loaded with bad fats. Uses powdered milk too- small ways to rotate all that dry milk we have stored- My family loves this!

Put in blender in this order:

2/3 cup milk (I put in just a little more than this)
2/3 cup non fat dry powdered milk
1/4 cup sugar
2 big spoonfuls of peanut butter
2 1/2 cups ice (1 and 1/2 trays of ice)

push Ice Cream button or blend away and enjoy

*if you own a Blendtec- the Ice Cream button will make this very thick- you may need to add more milk if you aren't going for "thick" or push the Smoothie button instead.

Diablo Verde Shakes

I saw this recipe on Scribbit's blog, and thought it sounded yummy! I haven't tried it yet though.

1/8 c pina colada syrup
1/4 c kiwi syrup
lime sherbet
1/3-1/2 of a banana
1/4 of an avocado
crushed ice
sprite
whipped cream for topping


Place all the ingredients (except the whipped cream) in a blender and blend until it's smooth. Top with whipped cream and enjoy.