Blender cocktails

dadasarah · Post by **dadasarah** » Wed 03 May 2006 00:14

Without a little water, it gets too thick for my cheap blender. Plus, I'm always thirsty...

The avocado, banana, strawberry blend is good too!

Chin-Chin · Post by **Chin-Chin** » Thu 04 May 2006 21:11

Has anybody tried putting sashimi in a blender? With avocado and olive oil maybe

Post by **Oscar** » Thu 04 May 2006 21:29

Errr...protein + blender = dirty protein...

Chin-Chin · Post by **Chin-Chin** » Sat 13 May 2006 19:55

Almond Parsley Patée

I got this from the GardenDiet.com:

-Soak two cups of almonds in spring water for four hours
-Drain the water and put the soaked almonds in a blender
-Blend until broken down
-Add juice of 1/4 of a lemon
-Add a cup of parsley and blend in
-Add a little olive oil and salt if desired and stir in
-Chop in some fresh herbs like chives or dill

If the almonds don’t seem to blending down into a patée you may need to add a little dash of water, especially if you want it to be really smooth.

Chin-Chin · Post by **Chin-Chin** » Mon 15 May 2006 13:04

A blender recipe integrating coconut that I plagiarized from another thread:

Caraidh wrote:I entered that into NATs http://nat.crgq.com/nat2/nat.pdl

1 banana
1 apple
1 pear
1 tablespoon mango

is 75g carbs (and 1.7g fat)

which would require 37g fat.

Is the coconut dried dessicated coconut?

With fresh coconut, 1 cup shredded = 80g coconut = 27g fat
but it also gives you 11g more carb

so now you have 86.7g carb/28.6 fat.

You need 43g fat.

So add 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, which makes a total of 42.2g fat.

So now the smoothie is:

1 banana
1 apple
1 pear
1 tablespoon mango
1 cup shredded fresh coconut meat (80g)
1 tablespoon coconut oil

Which gives you:

691 cals
4.7g protein
42.2g fat
86.7g carb
3mg Iron
40% RDA Vitamin C

Cairidh · Post by **Cairidh** » Mon 15 May 2006 15:41

I feel so...exposed...

lol

If you're that hungry for blender recipes this is what I've been giving my mum for breakfast each day:

Watermelon (enough to fill one glass)
1-2 tablespoons coconut oil

Blend!

Watermelon contains lycopene, which helps prevent breast/prostate cancer and also emphesyma. Tomatoes are the richest source (and the richest sauce), but watermelons are the second. They have to be blended or cooked with fat to be absorbed. Hence I include coconut oil - which stimulates the thyroid, and the metabolism, making a lot of people lose weight.
Melon can give you terrible tummy ache if eaten with any other fruit or veg, and so should be eaten separately.

Boy melon: Honey will you run away with me?
Girl melon: Sorry, but I cantaloupe!

avo · Post by **avo** » Mon 15 May 2006 20:29

Watermelon does not sit well if eaten with something else, but it is fine if combined with oil? Doesn't oil require digestion that would interfere with the melon? I always eat my melon solo, no fat (besides occasional missed seed).

Chin-Chin · Post by **Chin-Chin** » Mon 15 May 2006 21:01

I haven't bought coconut oil. Is it always raw?

For the moment, I put olive oil with watermelon and bananas...

Thank you Caraidh. I'm trying to enrich this thread with more blender recipes to stay excited on this diet.

I hate eating boring food. That's my motivation to get this going!

Post by **Oscar** » Mon 15 May 2006 22:59

Watermelon and oil should combine well.

'Boring' is in the mind, not in the food...

Cairidh · Post by **Cairidh** » Tue 16 May 2006 07:20

No Coconut Oil is mostly heated. There's a brand called Nutiva which is raw. There are others which are raw which are more expensive.

Cairidh · Post by **Cairidh** » Tue 16 May 2006 07:23

This last week I've been eating lots of strawberry, banana, water or blueberry, banana, water smoothies, without the avocado. They have a stronger taste. If it's a drink I prefer without the avocado.

If it's a pudding, you have to use avocado - put berries, bananas, and avocado in a bowl and whizz with a hand blender, then eat with a spoon. Heaven.

Cairidh · Post by **Cairidh** » Tue 16 May 2006 07:24

Last week I made a milkshake.

Brazil nut milk, strawberries, bananas, avocado, coconut oil. And my mum actually really liked it!! wonders will never cease.

Chin-Chin · Post by **Chin-Chin** » Tue 16 May 2006 11:26

The milk shake sounds delicious. I haven't found any unshelled brazil nuts over here

Plus I'm pretty lazy.

Oscar wrote: "Boring" is in the mind, not in the food.

This is true from a Advaita/Zen point of view. But then why make effort to do anything? Why decorate, why cook, why go on vacation? Why do you add funny icons to your posts? It's simply because we don't live in a monastery, and would like to make life as colorful as possible, both on the inside and the outside. Creativity is life's most wonderful gift.

Post by **Oscar** » Tue 16 May 2006 12:12

Ah, but why judge something as boring instead of taking the effort to see the beauty of it? Is the grass always greener somewhere else? Why do people on a cooked diet need the variety, the different cuisines, the spices and herbs in all kinds of different combinations? Why is our food simple, yet effective and satisfying? But maybe it takes a while to appreciate that, or maybe I'm just to much of a simplist...

When you say

Chin-Chin wrote:I hate eating boring food.

I think it's not a matter of creativity, but of perception.

So, I'm not saying creativity is useless, on the contrary. Besides, I wasn't too serious about it, hence the ";)".

Chin-Chin · Post by **Chin-Chin** » Tue 16 May 2006 14:37

Oscar,

I wasn't that serious about it either when I wrote it.

But after some reflection, I think the raw diet can only survive and thrive on a large scale if it can compete with the cooked diet in terms of inventivity.

Inventivity is part of the human spirit. I really regard culinary art as a major, not a minor art. If we can make steps towards making what we eat more interesting, is it not a worthwhile cause?