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Happy Halloween! Spoooooky Smoooooothies We’ve been...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Spoooooky Smoooooothies We’ve been drinking these a lot, due to an abundance of carrots and pears in our CSA’s harvest this fall. When you cut out jack-o-lantern faces fr...
“Jaws Wired Shut turned 5 today!” reads the email...
“Jaws Wired Shut turned 5 today!” reads the email tumblr just sent me, hilariously demonstrating the limitations of automated targeted marketing. I’m not exactly celebrating the incident ...
Pear and Ginger Smoothie
Pear and Ginger Smoothie : I have had a tab open with this recipe for a few months now and keep meaning - and then forgetting - to try this smoothie. We even had really amazing pears earlier th...
From the Recipes for Health column in the New York Times, here...
From the Recipes for Health column in the New York Times, here are five unconventional but healthy smoothie combos: Pear and arugula with ginger and walnuts Mixed berry and beet Red berry, cabb...
If you’re watching this video here on Jaws Wired Shut,...
If you’re watching this video here on Jaws Wired Shut, instead of on its creator’s YouTube page or No Meat Athlete (which is where I found it), then it is unlikely that “Blend” and “Ha...
Bourbon Street Milkshake
Bourbon Street Milkshake : I’m sad to say that I’ve never been to Bourbon Street - not the famous one in New Orleans nor the bar on the West Island of Montreal that is the source of incessa...
This. Looks. Amazing. And for anyone on the blender diet,...
This. Looks. Amazing. And for anyone on the blender diet, you’ll be guaranteed a good amount of the nutrients and calories you need.I can’t even deal with the texture of pudding (let’s get ...
Peanut Butter and Everything
Amazingly, of all the shakes and smoothies I drank while wired shut, many of which involved either peanut butter OR bananas, none involved both. Well, here’s an easy recipe for one shared by Ca...
Blender BFF
Blender BFF : “A blender is arguably the professional cook’s most important tool (after the knife),” claims Sophie Brickman on the Atlantic Food Blog, as she talks blenders and soup. Ch...
Guest Post: Pumpkin Pie & A Blender
Perhaps the most ubiquitous reason to take a turn on the blender diet is having one’s wisdom teeth removed. I unwittingly took a trial run myself, getting all four wisdom teeth out about a year...
Medal count for wired jaw survivors: 1
Congratulations to Shannon Bahrke – mogul skier, bronze medal winner at the Vancouver Olympics, wired jaw survivor. As if becoming an Olympian isn’t hard enough, several years ago Bahrke face...
Holiday Cranberry Smoothie
Here’s a little experiment I undertook over the holidays when I had extra cranberries after making the annual batch of my grandmother’s cranberry sauce. It was different, but festive. 2 tbsp....
The Holiday 101
My suggestion in July that Mark Bittman’s 101 ideas for salads made for a great source of blendable possibilities was received by many with skepticism, so I understand if you decide to disreg...
Holiday Gift Idea: Stainless Steel Straws
These stainless steel straws are advertised as adding “a little zing to any drink” and “perfect for dinner party cocktails” - and they may well do and be just that, IF you’re up for zi...
Coming Soon: the Jaws Wired Shut Holiday Survival Guide
Eggnog Latte by A SONG UNDER THE SUGAR SUGAR If you’ve been with me since the beginning of my adventures here, you may remember my quip to the oral surgeon: Is there ever a good time for th...
Trick-or-Broccoli
Broccoli by La Grande Farmers’ Market Every once in a while I happen upon a list of “superfoods” and am reassured that I actually enjoy so many things that are good for me (just to bala...
Hiatus/Comeback
Can someone please tell me what happened to summer? And, how did it get to be October? I know I’ve been a little MIA ‘round these parts, and happily, it’s because I’ve been doing the mo...
Liberté won me over a decade ago when I lived in Quebec –...
Liberté won me over a decade ago when I lived in Quebec – they were an essential part of my Canadian education in foods that can be maple flavored – and has been my favorite yogurt company ...
Rice Pudding Comes Full Circle
A little over seven weeks ago, as we waited in a pre-dawn holding pattern for the results of my ER tests, Dan went out, starving and sleepless, in search of food. Because of the lingering pos...
Gazpacho
Milkshakes aside, gazpacho seemed to be the food most frequently recommended to me this summer, but only today did I finally make it. Here in the Northeast, we’re having a wretched summer t...