Wayward Knitting

Green Smoothie Recipes - too yummy not to share

Kevin's Cool Smoothie:

3 c. water

1/2 head green lettuce, washed, about 8-12 leaves

5-8 frozen strawberries

20 fresh mint leaves (no stems)

Blend in the Vitamix - magical.

J's Green on the Beach Smoothie:

3 c. water

1/2 head green lettuce, washed, about 8-12 leaves

1 yellow peach, ripe, sliced and pitted

10-15 chunks of frozen mango

10 mint leaves

5-10 ice cubes

Blend in the Vitamix, takes a while to get all the frozen mango chopped up but makes a thick, luscious green smoothie, about 40-48 oz.

All smoothies are raw, vegan and I use organic produce.

Acai Berry Smoothies - a winner

Day 3's recipe was a winner.  2 servings:

2 packs of pureed frozen acai berries, unsweetened
16 oz unsweetened almond milk
1 punnet of organic fresh blueberries
ice cubes

more berry-like, better color, lovely almost chocolately taste.  Thumbs up on this variation.

Acai Berry Smoothies - continued

Day 2
1 package frozen acai berry puree unsweetened
10 oz unsweetened, almond milk
ice cubes
1 white nectarine

delicious, mild.

Amazingly enough, good enough energy boost I can forego coffee.

Something Must Be Done - Objective Acai Berry Recipe Experiment

I wanted to learn more about the Acai berry but with the exception of like 2 articles, nearly everything online is advertising crap.  Apparently Rachael Ray and Oprah and Dr. Perricone have endorsed this berry so the ads just harp on endlessly.  Since I pay for this blog and I do not allow ads on it, I decided, "Something Must Be Done." 

Day 1 - Green Smoothie Meets Acai Berry

1 pack Samazon frozen unsweetened Acai berry puree (purchased at Whole Foods). 
1 ripe banana
2 cups coconut water
5 organic romaine leaves
1 organic dino kale leaf.
ice cubes
yields about 32 oz.

Result - delicious, cool, refreshing.  Even my meat-eating husband liked it.  I had it for dinner, he had it for his dessert.
Negatives - can't taste the coconut water, next time I'll just use water, and it's an ugly brown color because green and purple together is not pretty.

Unexpected benefit - 16 oz was so satisfying that I had lost my craving for the sweets I had purchased.

The berry puree was cheaper than I thought it would be since the dried stuff is about $40 for 8 oz.  I think the Whole Foods freezer section sold the frozen acai berry puree in packages of 8.  However, since most of the online recipes tell you to use 2 packages at a time, that could get a little spendy.

For tomorrow, I think I may try 2 packages of berry puree and blend it with almond milk to see what I get.