I saw a cool mason jar on a blender idea from Delilah Snell’s facebook page recently! Did you know your standard mason jar fits on your blender? I’m serious. You can totally screw the blender blades onto your pint-sized glass jar of ingredients, put it on your blender, and whip something up right in the serving/storage container.

I read that you could do this on Delilah’s page and went WOAH. Great ideas can be so basic that they’re right under your nose, and they make total sense, but no one tells you! Here we’ve been sittin’ with all these Ball jars of preserved garden goodies in our cupboard, and using the regular blender container like a sucker!

It’s one of those ideas that I totally geek out about, and think about constantly until I get the chance to try it for myself. So Saturday night, I jumped at the chance to put this technique to work when I was making soup. What’s that? I need tomato puree?!?

It worked so well, I tried it out again the very next day. When Phil got up from his afternoon nap, we went into the kitchen to figure out what to have for an afternoon snack. I had a moment of inspiration.

“Do you want ice cream?” I asked.

“HA!” he said. (That’s yes in Phil speak.)

“Do you want strawberry ice cream?”

“HA!!!”

Out came the blender again, and a clean mason jar. I put a half a cup of frozen blueberries, three frozen strawberries, and about a half a cup of milk into the Ball jar, screwed on the blender blades, threw that mason jar on the blender, and whipped up some faux ice cream faster than you can say disestablishmentarianism! (Which I heard once was the longest word ever. Does it still hold that title?)

I gave the boy some animal crackers and his faux berry ice cream, and he pigged out, none the wiser that there was almost nothing bad for him in his snack. You know you’ve hit on a food he loves if he refuses to share, and I didn’t get any bites of this until he was good and full and sick of it.

Happy blending!