Today is such a fun day! (ummm…. Happy Birthday to me ☺) and because it is my birthday and because it is just a few short days away from Christmas, I am teaming up with WOLF Gourmet to gift one of you with a spectacular present!! I get to give one of you guys a WOLF Gourmet High Perfomance Blender (retail price $599.99!!!!)
I have been using this incredible blender from the brand new WOLF Gourmet line for a while now and it has taken the place of all my old favorites. It just does everything, from pureeing soups, chopping vegetables and whipping up my morning smoothies- and it does it so well! Plus it looks awesome on my kitchen counter. 
To enter to win this gorgeous blender, all you have to do is leave a comment (one per person please) below, telling me what you would make with this blender. The winner will be chosen at random. Please make sure that you use your correct current email address (that you actually check every day!) with your comment so that I can reach you. You need to respond within 24 hours or I will pick a new winner. This contest will be over on Christmas Eve- Thursday December 24th, 2015 at 9am PT, and I will announce the winner here immediately and then email the winner. I am afraid this is open to US residents only. THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED!!!! The winner was Noel Hendley!
Thank you for all the great recipes. My daughter is vegan and it is hard to find great tasting vegan recipes. Yours are tops. Can’t wait to make the cauliflower soup in my new WOLF blender. Thanks, Noel
Now- a little more about the soup that I made in this amazing blender! This creamy, silky, snowy white Cauliflower puree is the most beautiful bowl of healthy and tasty soup. I can never get over how pretty it is, and therefore it has made many appearances on my dinner party tables, and makes an absolutely perfect starter for Christmas or New Years Dinner.
The best part (besides it’s good looks) is how light it is. I will literally sip the hot soup directly from the bowl, and have been known to finish a whole batch myself over a day or two- eek! I love a drizzle of truffle oil on the top, but have garnished with everything from fresh herbs and edible flowers to a single sterile bird feather on the top of each bowl (now that’s a fancy presentation).
When having a cocktail party, this is lovely served in shot glasses or espresso cups as a hot appetizer. However this soup is also easy and delicious enough to pass the test with my children and I will often send a thermos of this hot soup in their lunch boxes- very versatile!
You can get the full recipe on the WOLF gourmet blog HERE.
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I would definitely make winter medley vegetable soup! This looks delicious!
I would probably make my brother’s coconut milk potato leek soup first.
Gotta make myself some strawberry smoothies.
I’d make smoothies most often. Merry Christmas!
That soup’s a stunner, and the blender’s not bad either! I would love to make my daily smoothie in that gorgeous appliance 🙂
I would make so many things but most of all soups & smoothies.
I would make many kinds of soup, which is what I live on all winter in Minnesota!
Well I love soup…the first one I would make in this blender is my roasted tomato potato soup with garlic croutons on top.
After trying your Creamy Vegan Cauliflower soup, I would make the Blended Egg Nog Cocktail found on the Wolf Gourmet Blog.
I have been patiently waiting for my blender to break down so that I can bring a high-powered one into my nest to make nut butters! But I will definitely try this soup (feather and all) with my new blender, what a great belated birthday present it would be! Happy birthday to you and happy blending!
Happy Birthday Heather!
I love your recipes and I am planning on making (in my new blender, hopefully) the Dutch Baby Pancakes from Hummingbird High for Christmas morning, followed by your Creamy Vegan Cauliflower Soup (sounds yummy) for an appetizer and then your Cranberry/Orange Margaritas for the adult cocktail. We are also having fresh Florida stone crabs for an appetizer and I know the blender cauliflower soup will pair well together.
Thank-you and have a Merry Christmas too! Sue
Happy Birthday Heather!
I want to make the Dutch Baby Pancake, and Creamy Vegan Cauliflower Soup, followed by your Cranberry/Orange Margaritas…
Sue
Happy Birthday Heather!
I want to make your Vegan Cauliflower Soup, it sound delicious!!!
Sue
Happy Birthday! I want to make your Califlower Soup… Thanks, Sue
First, I’d make my morning protein shake. Afterwards I’d have a whole gamut of foods to try in my new blender. And a Happy Birthday to you Heather. Love getting your recipes in my email.
Beet hummus. I love the color for the holidays, and beet hummus is a great appetizer. That is the first thing I would make in this new blender.
I’d love to try to use the blender to make my favorite banana nice cream!
I’d make smoothies and nut butters for breakfast, hot or cold soups for lunch and appetizer beverages before dinner. The possibilities are endless!
I would make mint chocolate avocado gelato-what a treat! Enjoy your birthday celebration!
I am new to your blog and received my first posting from you this morning. I had no idea Wolf made a blender — WOW and do I ever need one. Mine is over 13 years old and not working as efficiently as it used to. Your recipes are excellent and I look forward to working in the kitchen with your help. Happy Birthday. Chicken Tortilla Soup is my go to item for MY current blender.
Happy Birthday Heather, I hope you have a wonderful day 🙂 Oh my gosh so many ideas running threw my head. I would first make this crazy marinade that I use for skirt steaks and then use it for a butternut squash soup recipe that I have been waiting to make.
love the blender. and i would love to create an avocado soup with a drizzled with homegrown chili oil.
First of all, Happy Birthday Heather. May you have a wonderful year filled with health, wealth, and happiness. The Wolf blender looks fabulous. I’d use it to puree my asparagus soup.
I would make some great tomato basil soup, plus for dessert a great strawberry malt!
I would make blender pancakes!
I would try this soup! Or a butternut squash soup. My blender is so old that I cannot even blend spinach in it – it just makes a lot of noise. thanks!
Smoothies! And soup.
I would make green smoothies, and hopefully this blender would blend everything up and not leave big chunks of fruit or greens like my current blender.
I actually make hummus in my blender but need to peel the chickpeas in order to get the right creamy consistency…hopefully this blender is strong enough that I can take away that step!
I would make my favorite Almond coconut milk smoothie-Yum! Healthy and dairy free!
It would be amazing to have this blender!! I would make my morning bulletproof coffee and smoothie in it.
Happy Birthday Heather. Thanks for all your wonderful recipes and helpful entertaining tips.
I would love a new blender to make my morning smoothies-greek yogurt, berries, tropical fruit, almond milk and protein powder. Also, a good margarita on a warm summer evening sounds good too 🙂
I would make smoothies and homemade salsa! Thanks for the opportunity to win 🙂
The blender would be perfect for my much-needed post-holiday detox. I’d be able to take soups and smoothies to work to fend off the cookies and candies that have been piling up.
Love your recipes…the soup sounds wonderful. I’d try it for sure if I won the blender.
Lots of soup lovers here, I would definitely make a soup too… a cream of roasted cauliflower soup, I make it with cashew cream, which would have to be made in the blender too!
I am a huge soup fan!!! That would be the first thing I would make, a warm and hearty soup.
I would definitely make chicken tortilla soup! Delicious!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I would blend up some of my creamy potato soup!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Your photos are gorgeous!!! I love the bird feather garnish.
If I was so lucky to have this blender, I’d make gazpacho – and smoothies. And this cauliflower soup, even though I’m not remotely on a vegan diet.
I would make every kind of soup I know how & learn some new ones.
I would make nutritious baby food for my grandchild!
Happy Birthday!! Green Goddess salad dressing.
Happy Birthday Heather! I would make my morning chocolate protein smoothie with banana. Your soup looks great.
I have a recipe for homemade coconut butter waiting in the wings for a high-powered blender… Thanks!
Oranges are ripening in AZ, so it is time for time for orange slush drinks.
(remember Orange Julius?) That would definitely be my first recipe!
I would make my favorite banana “ice cream”!
Would make the best carrot soup first and then a luscious chocolate mousse.
Happy, happy Birthday. So nice of you to think if others on your day. I would start with morning smoothie’s. My husband just turned 65 and we are wanting to better our breakfasts this way but don’t have a blender to do the job. Excited to try soups as well. A nice leek or asparagus would be great. I also like to make all our sauces and a good blender sure would help.
Happy Birthday and the soup is beautiful!
I would use it daily, because if I had it, on top of making my own mayo based sauces and frozen coffee drinks, I would do way more puréed “creamy” soups!
Definitely hollandaise, then this cauliflower soup…
I would make some killer nut butters with that plunger action!
Birthday greetings ! I had no idea Wolf made a blender . As we head into winter here in Wisconsin, I have soup on my mind . Broccoli soup is a favorite -maybe I could combine it with your cauliflower recipe . What a wonderful giveaway ! Thank you Heather and Wolf.
Different kinds of pesto and creamy healthier soups without or less cream. Am excited at the prospect.
I would love to make a green smoothie that doesn’t leave clumps of kale in my drink … Yes I’m looking at you, junky blender in my cabinet! A high powered blender like this Wolf would be a dream come true!
Wow, Heather I LOVE soup! Living in New England I could live on the stuff and you are always accommodating my taste buds! And the blender!!! Hummm, my morning smoothies, my afternoon smoothies and my evening smoothies, not to mention my coffee chocolate milk shakes! Are you kidding!!!
Happy Birthday Heather! Your soup looks delicious! I would for sure be using this blender to make my protein shakes with added fruits and greens!
My blender just broke and the first thing I would make with this blender is leek and potato soup because it’s cold and rainy here.
Salsa, because the reciepe has been in my family for generations, even though it’s simple it’s delicious,so much so that my husband requires that a full container be kept in our house at all times… It’s part of his daily vegetable intake
Crema de Aguacate (Creamy Avocado Soup)
With the cold weather coming, I’d make all-the-creamy-soups. Yum!
Happy Birthday!
This soup looks so good. I love cauliflower soup (all soups, really) and the presentation is so pretty.
If I won this I’d definitely use it to make soup.
i would make tomato soup and green smoothies!
Happy Birthday Heather! It looks powerful enough to make nut flours, would definitely do that, as well as make salad dressings and sauces… all those things that a hand-held immersion blender would splatter my kitchen with! And of course smoothies for the kids and me. Yep, just about use it for a million things! 🙂
Soups, soups, and more soups! And maybe a smoothie or three… 🙂
I would make so much soup!!
I think I’d make this soup. It’s gorgeous!
I would love to have this to make blended soups, just like you show! Thanks Heather!
I would make many soups with it as I love soup especially in the winter and then I would search for other things to make.
Cheers Heather and my blender would be christened with an tasty batch of Margaritas!
I can’t wait to make Walnut cilantro pesto in this awesome machine.
I would make cheesecake. I hear this type of blender gets the cheesecake super smooth.
I would use this high-powered blender to make my mole poblano. I bet it would get it so nice and smooth. Happy Birthday to you!!
So pretty and tasty!
Soup is the way to go with a blender! Love your pics Heather!!
I think I would make some coffee drinks and maybe some cocktails to start off! I’ve never owned a blender that worked well enough to chop ice. Have a Merry Christmas.
This blender would be fabulous for making fresh green enchilada sauce!
Smoothies!
I would make carrot-cilantro soup! I can’t wait to make your creamy cauliflower soup, too.
I would definitely make soup! Love your recipes.
I would make broccoli soup with this blender and also smoothies with hidden veggies for me kids!
Hi Heather, I met you when you spoke at the Sunset Club and I have been an avid follower ever since! I live on Bainbridge Island and have started my own little vegetable garden and love cooking using just-picked ingredients and herbs year round. I also love using all the wonderful fresh items of the NW – including harvesting the bounty of our wild outdoors. One of my favorite things to do with my son is to go harvest nettles each spring (with gloves and long sleeves, of course) and make this incredible nettle soup. The recipe is from Le Gourmand so it comes with a taste of Seattle nostalgia too. This pureed goodness from nature would be just one way I would use a Wolf blender!
Roasted Root Vegetable Soup!
There are so many things you could make but with winter upon us, potato soup sounds warm and delicious!
All I want for Christmas is this amazing Wolf blender, I’m drooling.
I would make Hummus, and gobble it up all myself, as nobody in my house eats it!
Oh my goodness- What WOULDN’T I make?! lol- All your inspirational recipe posts aside, I would have to first give it a go with my recipe for Roasted Butternut Squash, Corn & Crab Soup (I make it with almond milk & spice it with serrano chilies)… My 20 year old immersion blender just doesn’t get it to that creamy state I see from those lucky enough to have a high-powered blender. On, and then the smoothies I could do with my homemade kefir… It just goes on & on!!
Thank you for all the great recipes. My daughter is vegan and it is hard to find great tasting vegan recipes. Yours are tops. Can’t wait to make the cauliflower soup in my new WOLF blender. Thanks, Noel
I would be making smoothies!
I would definitely make smoothies most often, but I would surely use it for soups and sauces as well.
Among many things, I would enjoy making my favorite cream of asparagus or broccoli cheese soup in that gorgeous appliance! Happy Birthday Heather!
Smoothies!!! Soup!!! All the things 😉
I would make my own nut butters and yummy smoothies!
i believe the kitchen is a healing garden, so this blender would be used to make beautiful varieties of seasonal foods, soups, sauces and beverages!
I am a big soup person, so this would be so very handy. Also I want to start making veggie smoothies. cheryl
well, in summer i would make tons of gazpacho. but for now, me thinks… romanesco!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HEATHER! Hope this year’s trip around the sun is filled with joy, fulfillment, and delight.
And about this post…Wow, what a presentation! Polka dots on the soup- Beautiful!! And the truffle oil drizzle on top sounds positively luxurious. YUM.
ooh…the Wolf blender…OOH! My mind races with ideas for playing with such a versatile toy:
First off, I believe I’d start with a baked potato soup. (Our weather is just screaming for it!)…making it super silky smooth, them throwing in a bunch of chunky toppings for contrast and added flavor.
Next up, I’d play with a recipe I got for cinnamon hazelnut butter, and maybe experiment with other flavorful nut butter blends, too.
I’d also come back to my daily smoothies addiction, which fell away after I burned out my last blender (not a very good one, obviously!)
And…I’ve been wanting to get more deeply into the art of SAUCES….
Such a gorgeous machine could only help with all this…. 🙂
Happy holidays, Heather. Hope they are merry and bright.
What I would make is kale, mango, strawberry, chia, banana, with vanilla milk smoothie. Although, to try your drinkable soup would be splendid!
I’d make either sweet potato or pumpkin puree to start with – I’ve been making a lot of soups and quick breads with these ingredients lately!
I would love to make my curry pumpkin soup….Delis!!
I’m just dying for a chocolate milkshake and have been for days. Guess what I’d make first? Fingers crossed for a chocolate milkshake!
Hmmmm what to make first….well since it is the holiday season and it has been unseasonably warm here, how about some cranberry margaritas! That soup looks incredible by the way, great job! Pinned 🙂
Smoothies and dessert shakes!!
I would definitely make soups like the one you posted! I also would make lots of smoothies. They are killing y current blender.
And happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, Heather!
I would make avocado mint soup and cream of broccoli soup; also, watermelon smoothies. 😉
Post-Holiday Detox Smoothie!
I would make this beautiful soup
I would make a new Year’s resolution to make all your yummy, beautiful soups.. And, of course, a few of your cocktails!
Everyday I make a kale and fruit smoothie. So that is one thing I would definitely use it for but I also like butternut squash soup and I will have to try your cauliflower soup among other things. Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Looking forward to making some soup this winter.
I would make this creamy cauliflower soup first. It’s making me hungry! 🙂 Thanks for the chance!
The first thing I’d make is a Green Smoothy for our littles! Merry Christmas!!
I would make fresh fruit protein smoothies, smoothie bowls and, or course, puréed soups all winter! This cauliflower soup sounds fantastic, I want to go back to the grocery store (just got home) and pick up some cauliflower!
I would definitely make soup!! Yum!!
First of all Happy Birthday Heather!! Second let me just say how amazing this soup looks!! It sounds like the perfect thing for this ugly weather! I would use this blender to make potato leek soup and some smoothies!!
Pumpkin, coconut milk, hemp seed smoothie. Lots of spice. Yum.
My daughter has adopted a cause this season to feed the homeless and less fortunate. We have been cooking and gathering warm clothes for Union Gospel Mission and Nicklesville. Would definitely use this to make soups and frothy warm drinks for the cause. Thanks for sharing all your amazing recipes. Love the way you write and share your stories.
I would make soups to start, then begin to explore the possibilities. Thank you for the opportunity to win, and Happy Birthday!
Hi! I can use this to make baby food, and green smoothies for my kids. Anything that helps sneak in the veggies! I would also use it to make almond milk!
Wishing you a Happy Birthday and Happy Holidays to you and your family. The blender sounds fantastic, I’d definitely make a batch of soup with it first.
First I would make some faux mac n cheeze with cashews and nutritional yeast… Blend up some greens for some healthy smoothie action while cooking my decadent mac n cheeze and make some tasty nomilk shake for dessert… All while pumping my fist at the sky saying woohooo wolf!
I would make my healthy kale smoothies!
Happy Birthday! It’s a tough choice picking just one thing to make. Though today I’m a bit obsessed with pumpkin soup. Hope you’re enjoying this special day!
I would make broccoli cheese soup for a quick dinner and smoothies for my boys at breakfast.
I would definitely be make acai and Pitaya smoothie bowls!!
I’d make smoothies.
Trying some new smoothies and soups would be on my list of “to make” with the Wolf Gourmet blender.
Love your website! Happy Birthday!! I think I’ll make Creamy Vegan Cauliflower soup. It looks and sounds amazing!!
Hi, I found your recipe on Pinterest. How do you make sterile bird feathers? I would make protein, fruit shakes. Thanks for your consideration.
I would use it to make our daily smoothies, sorbet and sweet potato soup.
I would make baked potato soup.
Smoothies!
I would make fruit smoothies for my whole family!! Happy Birthday! : )
Happy Birthday Heather! What a fun giveaway. We would make smoothies, soup, and maybe a milkshake or two;)
This is gorgeous! I love the feathers in the bowl.
As far as the blender, I would use it to make smoothies. We do a lot of juicing which I love but I haven’t found a good use for the leftover fiber and would like a gadget that will use up all the fruit and veggies. I can see this making awesome smoothies so I can get more greens into my kids!
Smoothies in the morning and soups in the evenings! The cauliflower soup looks amazing!
My son has been begging for a blender for smoothies. Me? I love the idea of making creamy soups and fresh salsas. This califlower soup looks amazing!
Oh my heavens! We make smoothies with our homemade kefir, I make a mean puréed broccoli soup and we love making pesto! This would be perfect as my blender has started to smoke as of late, leading me to believe that it’s time for a change!
I would be able to make all the recipes I read about, including this one, because I would have a blender that could the job! Merry Christmas!!
Prep for cranberry salsa then on to tomato basil soup!!!! So many good things to come.
Yum, you cauliflower soup recipe looks amazing and I LOVE soups. I would make that w this blender along w my other favorite, butternut squash and apple soup!
Hello there–Merry Christmas! I would love to be able to make more soups for our family of 6 for healthy lunches and ski season pack ins. Shelley
I would love to make breakfast smoothies, as well as soups! Thanks for the chance to win!
Hi! I’d totally make a tomato soup! I’ve never made one myself before, and I’ve been dying to, but my current blender is definitely not powerful enough! And of course, can’t forget my smoothies…
I’d first make creamy white bean tomato soup and then soothies, salad dressings etc!
I would make green smoothies and pureed soups.
The Cauliflower Soup looks delicious. I would make that!
I would make a variety of green smoothies and soups.
Butternut squash, coconut, ginger soup for dinner! And loads of banana smoothies for my little girl 🙂
Happy birthday! I’d love to make broccoli cheddar soup in the blender!
I guess I don’t understand the point of putting a real bird feather on top of a vegan soup. That kind of makes it not vegan anymore.
after all this holiday indulgence, I would make a smoothie first! 😉
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I’d make my golden cheddar cheese soup in this!
I would make parsnip apple soup! And then in January it would be a smoothie making machine!
Wow! More fun to be had in the kitchen. It’s a toss up between a smoothie (raw cacao, coconut, kale, ginger, dash of cinnamon, almond milk and protein powder) and butternut squash soup!
Salsa!
Happy Birthday! I would create a version of this soup and call it a Calliflower soup 🙂
Merry Christams and Happy Birthday! My daughter also has a late December birthday, and my FIL is xmas day! We love smoothies, soups and lots of blender foods!
I would for sure make Broccoli Blender Soup and cashew sauce. They are staples in my home!
smoothies, soups, nut butters.
I would start out with this stunning soup. Love the feather! Then a beautiful sweet potato bisque.
Would love have a Wolf blender to make soups. As an empty nester, I find myself eating soup for both lunch and dinner!
What I would like to make most in this Wolf blender is a Salsify Vegetable Soup. The problem would be finding the salsify. I had it in a restaurant a few years ago and adored it. I have been looking for it in stores and farmer’s markets ever since. I could use the Wolf blender for so many things, especially fresh fruit smoothies using berries from my own vines and salsa from my heirloom tomatoes. A good blender rarely rests!
I love to make blended soups, especially when I can make them creamy but dairy free!
Great recipe!
I would make smoothies. Our much beloved blender has sadly cracked recently, so a new one would be very welcome.
Vegan Mac & Cheeze with soaked cashews, as well as chocolate banana and spinach smoothies, that satisfy my powerful chocolate urges! 😉
Happy Christmas to you and yours, Heather!
If i had these blender i would love to make Heather’s tomatoe soup it is one of my favorite soups, also i love to make my kids delicious shakes with tons of fruit. Crossing my fingers!!!
I would make your wonderful looking winter medley vegetable soup! Looks wonderful on this rainy and cold Seattle day! I would make more soups and try out some smoothies.
Thank you
Oh my, there are so many wonderful things to make with this blender. I’m really into pureed soups these days, wonderful fall/ winter food. In spring/summer definitely mix up some cocktails and be the place to go in the neighborhood. On a daily basis, it has to be my morning smoothie. It would be exciting to learn how many new things I could create! Have a very Merry Christmas and thank you for such wonderful recipes. For Happiness and Health in 2016!
We’re smoothie folks here, but would love to blend up some delish soups.
Tomato soup made with that blender would be a beaut!
I would love to make this soup, especially since my daughter is vegan and I am vegetarian!
I would love to make this recipe, especially since my daughter is vegan and I am a vegetarian!
I would make borscht… I’ve been wanting to make it forever. And my 5 year old niece is a super adventurous eater who would love to try that purple soup!
We always server potato leek soup for the holidays. I guess we’d have to make it more often.
I would make some carrot ginger soup!
I love your recipes and would LOVE a blender to make the soups!!
Creamy potato and cheese soup….taste buds working overtime now.