Green Smootie Recipe??

[nothinkingbehind]

I tried the greens smoothie someone posted here with bananas and oranges and kale. Except I didn't have oranges, so I used carrot/apple juice, ginger, cinnamon, and bananas along with some kale. I don't have a vitamix, and it just came out grainy and not a very nice color either. I was thinking spinach might be a little easier on my plain old blender, I think I'll try that next. I haven't tried parsley in a smoothie, but it sounds good. I just picked up some ground hemp seed, so I think I'll add some of that today for some protien.

Does anyone else have a blender that works well and isn't so cost prohibitave as a vitamix? I won't be getting one of those for awhile.

Thanks

[anisha]

Originally Posted by SnowBunny

I tried the smoothie... well I didn't have everything on your list, so I improvised!

I dad chard instead of kale (kale makes me really sick anyways) and I don't eat banannas so I had to skip on those and only had one orange. So... basically I ended up making my own recipe! But yours helped in the creation!!

Greenbunny - I did it in a regular blender and I ended up chewing a couple pieces since it's pretty chunky. But I didn't mind it

Thanks RawHippie

Okay I have a regular blender as well and I think I have figured out how to get rid of the chunkiness:

A) You may need more water.
B) In terms of the blender, I blend it once and when everything looks blended - I stop the blender. I'll let the stuff settle for about 15-30 seconds and then start blending again. Usually everything re-blends and then there aren't much chunks.

[nothinkingbehind]

Great tip, thank you! It still didn't work too well with the kale. I wonder if i could soak it overnight to soften it? It worked really well with both spinach and parsley, which I think aren't as thick and rough.

I know Kale is good for me, but I am having a hard time getting it down so I thought a smoothie would be great. I'll just keep at it!

Melissa

[greenbunny]

The way to soften kale is with celtic sea salt. You rub it on the kale and let it marinate (so to speak). There is a great kale recipe in Gabrielle Cousen's recipe book. That's where I learned to make it soft with salt.

Greenbunny

[nothinkingbehind]

Good to know, I'll check it out!

Melissa

[So New to Raw]

Dear Snow Bunny:

Try this recipe: spinach, 1 bosc pear, 1 cup of water.

Place spinach and bosc pear in blender. Add water a half a cup at a time. Taste. If needed, add the other half. You may want to add some more water. It depends upon you.

So New to Raw

[bvigorda]

Hi,

I just quickly skimmed through this thread.

For the person who posted this:

"The closest primate is not the chimpanzee actually. It's another that the name of which escapes my mind at this moment."

I believe our closest primate is the bonobo, although I could certainly be proven wrong This is based on a program I saw on tv several years ago.

For the person looking for green smoothie recipes, I don't know if mine qualifies as a "green" smoothie, but this is what I make every day:

Kefir - about 4 to 6 oz
a handful of blueberries or some other berries
if I have bananas around I add one or half of one
1/2 scoop whey protein powder
1/2 to 1 tbsp of my favorite green superfood powder
12 - 20 drops organic liquid lo han sweetener

When I get my bee pollen in the mail from the Raw Guru store, I'll be adding a tablespoon or two of that.

Cheers!

Gail

[Joyful]

If you have a wheatgrass juicer you can juice parsley or wheatgrass and add some to your smoothies. It is not as expensive as a vitamix, and for the people above talking about chewing greens and jaw size: I'm glad for these tools that do help us to not have to depend solely on our malnourished depleted energy of deprived generations of unhealthy foods from our predecessors.

[nurturinghome]

1 package of parsley
4 apples
a little water to make it smooth
blend it all to a smoothie. its sooo goood. and you can use the green smoothie as a base to many other recipes

[RawFoodGrl]

We have a regular blender too and use kale a lot. We never soften it (but you certainly can), we just tear it into smaller pieces and toss it in. However, we do NOT use the thick center stem. That's really tough.

I make a green smoothie too:
1 cup water
1 cup spinach
1/2 cup cilantro (or less, however much you want)
1/2 T agave

I've been reading it's really best on your digestive system to not mix fruits and vegetables, so I use agave instead of fruit to sweeten it (it's really bitter without some kind of help).