The Blender Girl: Super-Easy, Super-Healthy Meals, Snacks, Desserts, and Drinks--100 Gluten-Free, Vegan Recipes!

Tess Masters delivers an incredible, inspiring book that contains a variety of mouth-watering recipes, helpful tips on health advice, and much more. The Introduction begins with her own personal story of her journey of discovery on flexibility, a key factor to healthy living. This book is packed with information on proper, healthy diets and the golden key to success in losing weight, and staying healthy. The author includes delicious recipes on:Appetizers; Snacks; Salads; Main Dishes; Smoothies; Dressings; and more. Tess Masters discusses the power of whole foods, balance, choosing the right blender, and other important information. We learn how to Soak, Chop, Mince, and Grate. The author also discusses why the Spatula is Queen, Types of blenders and performance, raw power, and the colorful photos are inviting. There is a section on Increased Energy, Prevention Of Disease, and discussions on the well-being of a healthy life. We also learn about Superfoods, Vitamins, minerals, and Antitoxidants. There is interesting information on soaking nuts, cheat charts, how to make homemade milk, and how to Store and Freeze. The author includes facts on Vegetables, Fruits, and Sweeteners, such as Stevia. She begins Recipes with delicious Smoothies and Shakes such as: Raspberry Lemon Cheesecake, Pineapple Salsa, Creamy Orange C, and other yummy recipes that make your mouth water. We made thus far, the Apple Pie In A Glass And the Chock-Full Chocolate Surprise, both were delicious, and my daughter requested those again. In addition, there is information on:Juicing Versus Blending, Nuts and Seeds, Dips and Spreads, and more. The desserts are amazing, and we had fun making the Ginger-Apple Pear Butter, which we love on toast. I've tasted Apple Butter once and loved it, so we were anxious to make this. Next we will make the Raspberry Jam, and the Rich But Simple Tomato Soup. My daughter selected the Butternut Bliss soup for tomorrow. I also made the Pear And Candied Walnut With Raspberry Vinaigrette Salad Dressing, very light, refreshing, and tasty. I will be making this again-and-again. We also learn how to make homemade Vegetable Broth, and the Main Dishes are fantastic. Some Recipes include: Pizza; Tacos; Lasagna; Creamy Mushroom Stronganoff; and other inviting recipes. This book is a delightful addition to my cookbook collection, and I will be gifting it to friends and family on special occasions. Highly recommended!

This book, and truthfully Tess Masters, the beautiful chef and author, have honestly changed my life. I had the luxury of discovering Tess and her fabulous website [...] two years ago this month. I fell immediately in love, went out and bought a Vitamix based on her inspiring recipes and personal encouragement, and off I went into the kitchen. I eat better, I sleep better, my kids are healthier, my family and I ALL have more energy. We get sick less often. We are more FULL OF LIFE from following the recipes on her website and in this fantastic book! Have you seen the movie "Julie and Julia" about a young writer attempting to test each and every one of Julia Child's recipes in her first cookbook? Well, that's me and this book (and website, truth be known, but that's a lot of material!) I absolutely love every single Tess Masters recipe I have ever tried, and interestingly, I don't even tweak them. I tweak EVERY recipe, honestly, but not these - they're PERFECT the way they are. My kids are now slurping all things raw and full of nutrients: hemp seeds, chia seeds, almond milk and kale, gazpacho and cauliflower soup, among other things. They eat flax seeds, coconut and more - sometimes knowingly, sometimes - HA - not! That's the beauty of some of these recipes! You can honestly sneak in the healthy stuff and since the recipes are THAT GOOD the kids don't ask too many questions! We served the "Spicy Gazpacho Grab" and the ridiculously perfect "Pineapple Vanilla Sangria" at a fairly large party one evening and EVERYONE (not the kids) asked for the recipes. I told them all to go buy the book! There are smoothies, dips, spreads, pancakes, soups, desserts, salads and so much more - but it's not just the recipes that make this book seriously amazing. The educational, loving, teaching aspect makes me want to read and reread this book many times over. “The Blender Girl” cookbook has claimed a permanent spot on my kitchen counter. It's absolutely gorgeous, with stunning photography and outstanding information on how to do things I thought were "too difficult" before reading this. Make my own almond milk? What?! It’s Easy! Tonics? What are those? Fixer-uppers, that's what. Try them, you'll like them. Seriously. Yup, it's really that easy. Tess Masters breaks down healthy eating and blending to a simple step by step "how to" - it's really rather easy when you have a good teacher. Spend some time in this book and on her website and you'll find yourself hooked too.

In the past I found cook books to be a bit dry and I have to hunt to find a good recipe I liked. As I have gotten older I have looked for a cook book that would be easy to use and provided me with recipes that truly benefited my health. So Glad I Found The Blender Girl! I have tasted 25 of the 100 recipes and loved each one so far. The author, Tess Masters, walks you through the recipes as if she was talking directly to you. Though you can try the recipes with any blender, I do recommend using a Vitamix or another high powered blender. You will be much happier with the results. As an experiment, I decided to eat only recipes from The Blender Girl for a week. By day 3 I was sleeping better, had more clarity and my blood pressure dropped. In addition, I had more energy throughout the day. Pretty remarkable. Looking forward to seeing if the recipes will also help my waist line. To wrap up ...honestly great recipes using healthy ingredients laid out in an engaging, mouth watering, personal way.

Just what I was hoping for. The book has tasty, simple dishes that are at my skill level, and are useful practice for getting my cooking skills up and running

I live in the south of France now and just discovered the Blender Girl blog. I am gluten, egg and dairy free due to food allergies... yikes, and I LOVE this blog and now this amazing book!!! Well done. beautiful piece of work, lots of great recipes.. although there is no Kale here but I can grow it in my garden... as well as I can scrounge up other ingredients thanks to the internet :-).. I have a Vitamix and now will be using it every day!! Thanks you Tess!!!

'The Blender Girl' by Tess Masters was beyond my expectations. I bought it when I was searching for a good recipe book to use with my new Omni Blender (think vitamix/blendtec.) I knew my big boy blender had many uses, and I wanted to get my money's worth out of it. This book does not disappoint, but more than that, these recipes are absolutely amazing! Though I lean towards a vegan diet, I am not a vegan and neither is my hubby. Yet, these recipes will definitely appeal to vegans and non-vegans alike. This is not a smoothie book (though smoothie recipes are included), there is plenty of variety here! Amazing dips, sauces, drinks, salad dressings, casseroles, soups, main dishes, you name it! If you get this book, you HAVE to try the raspberry cheesecake smoothie- gorgeous! As well as trying the Alkaline tacos and edamame dip- a-MAZ-ing! The vegan mayo is my go-to mayonnaise recipe now. I used to try to make it with eggs, but it just was the store mayo I grew up on (I know, that sounds awful!) I needed that creamy mayo that I was used to- this recipe does it! There is nutritional info included here as well, and I use it as a reference (and believe me, I have a LOT of health reference books!) This book is well made, beautifully crafted, and has awesome recipes. Definitely worth buying.

Love the receipes, an easy read and easy to make receipies with nice pictures, it's the book laying on my countertop since a few month now, and I tried already a few receipies! I would buy it again!

In una parola: SPETTACOLARE!!!!!! Ogni salutista dovrebbe averlo, mentre per iVegan.... un MUST HAVE!!! Scritto bene, ricette favolose, tante cose nuove da imparare, insomma libro da 10e Lode! :D