You'll be amazed at what your blender can do for you! Blenders are the "it" accessory, mostly because smoothies are healthy and quick. Sure, but did you know you can also whiz up a mean burger—salmon, veggie, turkey, even beef—in a blender? Your blender is that good! Brownies, pancakes, slaws . . . there are so many things you can make easily and quickly. Not only that, but blending offers the perfect opportunity to sneak in some extra nutrition: Black beans in your chocolate cake? Carrots in your tomato sauce? Or a quick pulse of cauliflower that can stand in for cream in sauces and soups? A handy chart suggests ways to boost nutrition in recipes that you and your family will embrace. If a high-performance blender is already on your counter, this book is its obvious companion. Save money, eat healthier, and get dinner on the table in a jiffy with The Ultimate Blender Cookbook.

The debut cookbook from the powerhouse blogger behind theblendergirl.com, featuring 100 gluten-free, vegan recipes for smoothies, meals, and more made quickly and easily in a blender. What’s your perfect blend? On her wildly popular recipe blog, Tess Masters—aka, The Blender Girl—shares easy plant-based recipes that anyone can whip up fast in a blender. Tess’s lively, down-to-earth approach has attracted legions of fans looking for quick and fun ways to prepare healthy food. In The Blender Girl, Tess’s much-anticipated debut cookbook, she offers 100 whole-food recipes that are gluten-free and vegan, and rely on natural flavors and sweeteners. Many are also raw and nut-, soy-, corn-, and sugar-free. Smoothies, soups, and spreads are a given in a blender cookbook, but this surprisingly versatile collection also includes appetizers, salads, and main dishes with a blended component, like Fresh Spring Rolls with Orange-Almond Sauce, Twisted Caesar Pleaser, Spicy Chickpea Burgers with Portobello Buns and Greens, and I-Love-Veggies! Bake. And even though many of Tess’s smoothies and shakes taste like dessert—Apple Pie in a Glass, Raspberry-Lemon Cheesecake, or Tastes-Like-Ice- Cream Kale, anyone?—her actual desserts are out-of this-world good, from Chocolate-Chile Banana Spilly to Flourless Triple-Pecan Mousse Pie and Chai Rice Pudding. Best of all, every recipe can easily be adjusted to your personal taste: add an extra squeeze of this, another handful of that, or leave something out altogether— these dishes are super forgiving, so you can’t mess them up. Details on the benefits of soaking, sprouting, and dehydrating; proper food combining; and eating raw, probiotic-rich, and alkaline ingredients round out this nutrient-dense guide. But you don’t have to understand the science of good nutrition to run with The Blender Girl—all you need is a blender and a sense of adventure. So dust off your machine and get ready to find your perfect blend.

This book will take you on a journey to understand the workflow normally used to create characters, from the modeling to the rendering stages using the tools of the last official release of Blender exclusively. This book helps you create a character mesh and sculpt features, using tools and techniques such as the Skin modifier and polygon merging. You will also get a detailed, step-by-step overview of how to rig and skin your character for animation, how to paint textures and create shaders, and how to perform rendering and compositing. With the help of this book, you will be making production-quality 3D models and characters quickly and efficiently, which will be ready to be added to your very own animated feature or game.

Discover simple ways to incorporate more whole foods into your daily diet using a blender with this gorgeous cookbook featuring 200 delicious recipes and more than fifty full-color photos—the first widely available cookbook from the Vitamix brand. Recently known primarily to professional chefs, over the past decade the Vitamix blender has become one of the most sought after kitchen appliances in home kitchens. Now, Vitamix has created a gorgeous companion cookbook to help you enjoy the benefits of a whole foods diet. Here are more than 200 simple, scrumptious, easy-to-prepare recipes that use a blender—most taking less than thirty minutes. The chefs at Vitamix believe that the only way to make lasting, healthy changes to your diet is to enjoy the food you eat. With The Vitamix Cookbook they’ve created mouthwatering food you’ll want everyday: breakfast and brunch, including smoothies, breakfast mains (muffins, breads and scones), pancakes, waffles, egg dishes soups and sides (amazingly, the Vitamix heats the soup while blending it, making it table ready in less than ten minutes!) entrees, including wraps and sandwiches, burgers, pizza, pasta, poultry, meat and seafood sauces and dressings drinks, including nut milks, juices, and even cocktails desserts, including sorbets, ice creams, milkshakes and baked desserts Throughout The Vitamix Cookbook, you’ll find helpful sidebars with inspiring stories of people who have improved their health using their Vitamix, as well as tips for a nutritious whole foods diet.

Your all-inclusive, recipe-packed guide to mastering any high-power blender. Inside this book, you’ll find more than thirty easy, innovative recipes for using a Vitamix® Professional SeriesTM blender for any meal of the day, from breakfast to dinner, and including snacks and desserts. Also included in this inspired cookbook is a primer on using your blender, with useful tips and tricks. Recipes include Pork Tenderloin with Plum Chutney; Carrot-Ginger Soup; Spinach and Tomato Frittata; Pico De Gallo; Frozen Margaritas; Pulled Pork Sliders with Coleslaw; Chicken and Cheese Enchiladas; Strawberry Sorbet, and many more. Whether you want to make a nutrition-packed smoothie, a hearty soup, or a delicious dip, The Perfect Blending Cookbook will enhance your meals and snacks with outstanding recipes everyone will love.

Online phenomenon The Blender Girl offers up 100 recipes for healthy living with tasty, crowd-pleasing dishes to help boost nutrition for every meal of the day. The Perfect Blend functions not only as a cookbook but also as a guide for how to lead a more vibrant and healthy life. Blogging powerhouse Tess Masters lays out a dozen healthy goals for readers, including gaining energy, boosting immunity, reducing inflammation, detoxing the body, and probiotic power. Then Masters offers easy-to-follow recipes for smoothies, elixirs, snacks, salads, sides, soups, mains, and desserts that help you reach these goals and get results fast. Including a guide to key ingredients, an extensive resources section, and optional nutritional boosters for each recipe, The Perfect Blend will help you find your own perfect blend and leave you feeling energized and revitalized.

The first fully tested cookbook for Instant Pot's original Ace Multi-Use Cooking and Beverage Blender offers an indispensable collection of 68 recipes that show how to harness this revolutionary high-speed blender (that also cooks) to produce hot soups and stews, mains and sides, dips and spreads, sauces, frozen treats, and more; all without using the stovetop. All of the recipes were developed using Instant Pot's first cooking blender, the Ace Blender. With the introduction of Instant Pot's Ace Plus Blender, we went back and retested our recipes. If you own the Ace Plus you can still make all of the recipes in this book by checking the adjustments found at www.americastestkitchen.com/aceblenderbook. Produce piping-hot butternut squash soup and Mexican chicken soup using the revolutionary "soup" function. Then venture beyond soups to make easy meals such as chicken cacciatore, Indian vegetable curry, and ground beef chili. You'll also find: Treats and frozen desserts like Banana Ice Cream, Grapefruit-Elderberry Sorbet, and Dark Chocolate Mousse Party-ready dips and sauces, including Herbed Spinach Dip, Easy Blender Smoky Tomato and Green Pepper Salsa, Arugula and Ricotta Pesto, and Marinara Sauce Effortless sides, such as Spicy Zoodles Marinara and Creamy Mashed Cauliflower Refreshing drinks, from Oat Milk with Ginger and Turmeric to Watermelon-Lime Aguas Frescas and Frozen Margaritas Filled with the best tips and techniques the test kitchen discovered while developing these recipes, this is the book every Ace Blender owner needs to get the most out of this game-changing appliance.