These recipes have instantly moved into my All-Time Favorite Live Green Smoothie Recipe list… wow! Not just gorgeous but delicious! There are two recipes here: One for a Pumpkin Lemonade made only from fresh juices. It is just the prettiest sunshine lemon-yellow ever, and will perk you up like no other lemonade you’ve ever had! [...]
Concerned about your immune system? Give your body a healthifying jolt with a generous dose of Vitamin C from fresh Valencia orange juice, and both beta carotene and zinc from fresh pumpkin (both the flesh AND the seeds)! This lovely honeydew melon-colored smoothie is naturally creamy and filling, and has a subtle, delicate flavor. [...]
No greens in this raw smoothie recipe, but filled with juicy living goodness all the same! Cheerfully orange, sweet, refreshing, and a great post-workout replenisher of electrolytes (celery’s helpful doing). A bunch of grapes, two stalks of celery, three carrots (ends lopped off and skin scraped a bit)… with a bit of water and ice, [...]
“Pumpgo”? “Mangkin”? This new taste combo seems to deserve its own special name. But whatever you go with, it’s a gorgeously fluorescent green, very filling, extremely pleasing smoothie. Take this one on the road, or enjoy for a light supper, and it’s going to keep you going for quite some time. Now that those cute [...]
How can a smoothie with these ingredients be creamy?? Because broccoli is so dang high in protein, and high-protein foods seem to add a creamy quality to Live Green Smoothies! A bit of broccoli, a couple wee tomatoes, a bunch of grapes, and an apple (peeled because, alas, not organic, but complements of Panera and [...]
It’s hard-core pumpkin season now, and I’m a hard-core pumpkin-lover, so I’ve got pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup, pumpkin juice… pumpkin-pumpkin on my mind of late. Definitely expect a string raw pumpkin recipes to emerge in the coming weeks! For starters, I picked up a cute little mini pumpkin and decided to make a smoothie using [...]
It may be humble in appearance, but it’s simple, sweet, tasty, cheap, healthful… and another way to drink your broccoli! A giant bunch of red grapes, a medium-ish chunk of broccoli, two stalks of celery… and water, of course. Delish! My oldest tucked a bottle of this into his lunch bag before heading off to [...]
Well, autumn is beginning to segue into frost season, so I had to bring in the potted basil plant that’s been on my balcony all summer. And those basil leaves looked so enticing on my kitchen counter, I decided to just use them all up in a new Live Green Smoothie recipe! Paired with fresh [...]
… and anyone who loves yummy drinks and feeling great! I saw an article in today’s USA Today about how kids just aren’t getting enough fruit and vegetables in their diets. Well… duh… we all know that. And we also know it’s not just the kids! I created this smoothie for all those kids who [...]
My son Auden is the Carrot-Goji Smoothie King, regularly combining these two into smoothies for himself and his friends. I can’t say I was ever much into carrot-based smoothies until I tried his concoctions, so let it be known he’s the official inspiration for this very yummy ginger-goji smoothie recipe! If you like ginger ale, [...]
