The Live Green Smoothie Diet

I was delighted this week to find a good local source of giant aloe vera leaves! It’s been a few months since I enjoyed a smoothie made with fresh aloe vera gel, and the fresh gel is el primo for alkalizing your body and helping to get rid of inflammation and stiffness, not to mention [...]

This drink — mild, just a wee bit creamy but not too much, and with a nice clean aftertaste — reminds me of pumpkin-juice-drinking Harry Potter peeps. But it’s easier than juicing, and has the mild quality of frothy dairy milk. And I just love the gorgeous, gorgeous color, which cheered me on at the [...]

Now here’s a hot-weather beverage that could really take off. It has the light, truly refreshing quality of iced tea, with the fresh basil having an almost minty accent. Fresh, raw zucchini provides a light, tasteless backdrop for the basil and red grapes for sweetness. (If you have organic zucchini, make with the skins on [...]

Lovely, velvety, with a romantic rosy blush… and you hardly need romance happening to enjoy it. I poured a couple out to enjoy with my father, who liked it very much. By now, if you’ve been following me for any length of time, surely you have some rose water in your cabinet that desires to [...]

So refreshing… like Essence of Watermelon, but with a creaminess that must come, almost inexplicably, from the mango! Add a wee bit of Citron vodka and, well… let the festivity start. Gorgeous in a lovely glass. So fresh. Eezy-peezy. I mean… what more could you ask for? There’s enough here for two blenderfulfuls, and the [...]

The way tomatoes taste in heaven… This is a sweet, tropical answer to the Bloody Mary, and I’ll bet you’ve never had anything like it! The intent of this recipe was to make a Tomato-Rose Sorbet sweetened with Mango, made creamy with Zucchini, and made aromatic with Rose Water. But it was so delicious, I [...]

This is a serious beta carotene blast with explosive ginger flavor! And it retains a smooth, creamy texture in the freezer, unlike many raw sorbets which get kinda “sharp” and hard pretty quickly. I made a Ginger Float outa my portion… I scooped some of the Carrot-Mango-Ginger sorbet into a bowl and poured some of [...]

This fruity fresh, Warm Live Tea made with mango and strawberries was a big hit with the kids. Whip this smoothie up and warm it in a jiffy and every mango-lover in the house will love you. [private] Recipe for: Strawberry-Mango Warm Live Tea flesh from 1 mango 1-1/2 heaping cups fresh strawberries, chopped for measuring [...]

Naturally sweet and robustly warming with a good heap of fresh ginger root, you can also had some fresh baby spinach or parsley to make this a warm Live Green smoothie-tea. This is definitely one of my favorite Warm Live Teas. It’s unexpectedly creamy — something about the watermelon, I’ve observed, when you smoothify it. [...]

This extremely creamy, delicious warm cacao drink isn’t made with any kind of milk (whether from dairy, almond, or hemp seeds) and is made with fresh baby spinach and avocado. This hot cocoa happens to also be a Live Green Smoothie chock FULL of antioxidants and magnesium (which you believe it’s the chocolate that actually trumps the [...]