Jumping into the Green Smoothie Lifestyle

Since I've been in San Diego I've been making "green smoothies" once or twice a day! I'm using a "regular" blender so the drinks take a bit longer to get smooth...and sometimes I just don't have the patience so I'm not sure if they'd ever really become smooth and homogeneous with a regular blender.

Spinach plus banana plus a cup of apple juice was the base for the sweet fruit smoothies. Sometime I add mint, agave, lettuce, parsely (perjil), mango, apple, ginger...Once I had no spinah and just used the other greens and I ended up with a "hairy" drink which was weird!

Recently I've been making spinach soup by blending a cup of cashews with 2 cups of hot water then adding a bunch of spinach and a bit of sea salt and cayenne. It's very delicious and if I didn't know the ingredients I'd guess it was made from asparagus and cow's milk!

Now I'm having my very own V8! It has tomatoes, celery, parsely, mint, spinach, water, sea salt, cucmber rind. I swish to stir then take a drink. The blended elements tend to separate over time with the fluffy stuff rising and the heavier stuff sinking. I'm drinking it "on the rocks" and am finding the drink very tasty and satisfying.

The Alisa Cohen book that I got is half cookbook. Eventually I'll get that and try some things out. For now it's packed away for re-discovery sometime next year by me or Dad.

One thing that I've discovered is that

• green smoothies are best when they are really smooth and cold.
• I also like green drinks that are NOT thick.
• And these green drinks can be HOT or COLD, THICK or THIN and can be full of so much FLAVOR!

Cooking Class...real cooking

Vita Mix can be used for more than Green Smoothies!

pretty cool...I like the way that a healthy diet is a healthy diet and there is no special diet for mom and another one for her family. it just occurred to me recently that in order for me to eat cooked food just for protein until I actually own a Vita-Mix and can drink enough greens and nuts to get the 45 grams of protein or so that I need. I'm thinking along the lines of one part rice, 2 parts beans, 3 parts pico de gallo! Fresh pico de gallo will provide vital nutrients and enzymes to the mix. yay!

Okay. Enough of that. This is the most extreme...

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What I like about this is her love of cooking and of preparing tasty, beautiful food that has lots of fresh, organic ingredients...yeah, she is still into heating but that just because...I bet she'll be more into raw as her knowlege and exploration deepens. For now, she drives home a point, food can be a pleasure, a supreme pleasure!