Smoothies

[teamsaint]

The spinach is just a way of getting your green leaves, really. Don't taste of anything much when mulched, last a good few days, and easy. No brainer addition, really.
I am pondering savoury smoothies....love guacamole, not sure anout the smoothie version. Food for though, KB,ta.
I never sulk for long. Schumann is cheering me up.

[MrGongGong]

Carrot
apple
ginger

[Flosshilde]

I'm curious about the spinach.

A cafe I used to go to did a spectacular apple & spinach juice - tasted great & looked radioactive!

[Ferretfancy]

I'm sorry if this seems a long list, but here's a smoothy recipe from the Style section of the Sunday Times this weekend from a no doubt very healthy lady called Calgary Yavansino.

2 cups bottled water 1tbsp chia seeds ( ?)
1/1/2 cups coconut water 1tbsp flax seeds
1/2 cup coconut milk 1- 2 tbsp greens powder ( Amazing Grass is her favourite )
2 handfuls of fresh or frozen soft fruit Protein powder ( Not whey based of course )
A handful of frozen kale ( yes, really! ) Dark fruit concentrate ( Blueberry, pomegranate or black cherry preferred)
1/2 avocado A few mint leaves
1/2 courgette 1 tsp baobab powder
1 tbsp almond butter 1tsp bee pollen
1/2 tbsp coconut oil 1 tsp freeze-dried acal berry ( ?)
1 tsp lacuna powder ( ?) 1 tsp acal powder

No instructions are given as to what to do with all this, but I could hazard a guess.

[teamsaint]

Cheers FF. Luckily I had all those ingredients , so rustled one up for brekkie!!!!!

Well, no I didn't , obviously. I did have some flax seed which I add usually though.#

Amazing recipe . From planet Hampstead, I guess.

[Flosshilde]

I'm sorry if this seems a long list, but here's a smoothy recipe from the Style section of the Sunday Times this weekend from a no doubt very healthy lady called Calgary Yavansino.

2 cups bottled water 1tbsp chia seeds ( ?)
1/1/2 cups coconut water 1tbsp flax seeds
1/2 cup coconut milk 1- 2 tbsp greens powder ( Amazing Grass is her favourite )
2 handfuls of fresh or frozen soft fruit Protein powder ( Not whey based of course )
A handful of frozen kale ( yes, really! ) Dark fruit concentrate ( Blueberry, pomegranate or black cherry preferred)
1/2 avocado A few mint leaves
1/2 courgette 1 tsp baobab powder
1 tbsp almond butter 1tsp bee pollen
1/2 tbsp coconut oil 1 tsp freeze-dried acal berry ( ?)
1 tsp lacuna powder ( ?) 1 tsp acal powder

No instructions are given as to what to do with all this, but I could hazard a guess.

She's having a laff, isn't she?

"1tsp bee pollen" - gathered by hand from virgin bees at daybreak, presumably

[amateur51]

I love smoothies and used to make them at home but I'm not sure how compatible they are with a diabetic diagnosis sadly

[Anna]

1 tsp bee pollen" - gathered by hand from virgin bees at daybreak, presumably

Aren't all bees except the Queen Bee virgins? She's the only one allowed to mate!
I've never had a smoothie, I have been tempted in the past by an Innocent Smoothie but then there was some scandal about them and level of sugar?
I wouldn't mind a smoothie of banana, greek yoghurt and a smidge of honey though, but I guess that's just a milk shake!

[teamsaint]

even without the pollen thing, they are still great, and a brilliant way of using fruit that is a day or two past its best.
My maker cheap enough and does a good job. (Robert Dyas).
I guess they make good shakes etc too.
I may try your recipe, and add some Baobob powder. (?!) I wonder if they have that at the village shop, at all?

[teamsaint]

going out on a limb here Ams, , but couldn't the medical guys advise?
They may be also able to advise where Acal Berries may be found in your neck of the woods !!

[french frank]

from a no doubt very healthy lady called Calgary Yavansino.

It appears to be Calgary Avansino (i was just trying to work out the anagram, though it isn't April 1st until Monday )

I don't think I have the gadget to make smoothies ...

[teamsaint]

It appears to be Calgary Avansino (i was just trying to work out the anagram, though it isn't April 1st until Monday )

I don't think I have the gadget to make smoothies ...

http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/P~156337~Nuo-Smoothie-Maker

£12.99. Mine was a bit more, but I got 2 mixing pots with lids .

turns a slightly substandard bag of apples into a yummy treat !!

as for the anagram.....no idea !

[Flosshilde]

It appears to be Calgary Avansino (i was just trying to work out the anagram, though it isn't April 1st until Monday )

I'm rather worried about the bee pollen - doesn't she realise how long it would take a bee to collect a tea-spoonful? (not to mention the difficulty it would have lugging a teaspoon from flower to flower). And surely it would have to be collected from the bee before it got to the hive? I thought that once in the hive the pollen got packed into the wax cells as food for the bee babies, & became honey.

I don't think I have the gadget to make smoothies ...

I've just used an ordinary blender - I think it's the ingredients that matter, not the tool.