Secondly...a nice quote I found while perusing articles on holistic nutrition:
"Worrying is using your imagination to create something you do not want."
--Esther and Jerry Hicks
--Esther and Jerry Hicks
And thirdly...today's post is about liquid love!
I have been making smoothies most mornings to sip after I start my day with an early workout. Blueberry, acai, peach, strawberry, green...you name it! I am slowly experimenting with additions like ground flax seed and green food powders. My texture threshold is delicate, so I'm trying to ease into the smoothies with all that thick healthy stuff in them!!
The base for most of the smoothies and other recipes requiring non-dairy milks lately has been Ani Phyo's "mylk." In her Uncook Book and website, she gives recipes for various versions. I have enjoyed both the vanilla mylk and the praline mylk. These non-dairy mylks are easy to make and require nothing but soaking the nuts beforehand and blending the ingredients. Yum!!
Here's my praline mylk:
I just store the mylks in reused jars and use them the way I would pre-packaged almond, soy or rice milk. Delicious!!
Here's my sexy green smoothie from this morning. I used Jae Steele's recipe in Get It Ripe. Having had some awful green smoothie fiascoes in the past, I definitely recommend following a recipe at first, and being cautious with the additives. This recipe involves assorted fresh/frozen fruit, greens, fruit juice, water, and optional green foods powder. After starting my day with this drink, I truly feel alert, cheerful, and on-the-ball. Yay green smoothies!!
(Oooh this jar's first job was holding delicious New Orleans olive mix...it's still got the label on it! Teehee!)
Between these smoothies, my morning workouts, the discovery of the sauna at the gym, and my dogged efforts to stay focused on beneficial thoughts and ways of spending my time, I'm feeling pretty darn good!
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Yay! Thanks!! Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to Brad!
I make soy and almond milk and put them in mason jars. I've never had them go bad, but I use them pretty quick - cereal and smoothies. I made my first green smoothie this week by throwing spinach in the mix. It tasted fine because of the banana and a couple of strawberries that were also in it.
wierd, it's vin's birthday today as well! happy birthday to our awesome partners. i like making my own milk as well, but i don't do it very much anymore because i've been getting silk for free at the food bank. passover is right around the corner though, so i'll have to do that during that week b/c soy is a no-no, and most commercial nut milks have soy lethicin in them.
Thanks D!
I have a question about the nut mylks. I just got the Ani book and looked over those recipes last night and noticed she doesn't call for straining about the nut pulp after blending...I've made raw nut milks before but always used a cheesecloth after blending to get out the chunky bits...do you leave them in? Is it okay, texture-wise that way?
Oh and happy birthday, Brad!
Hi Bianca! Ani doesn't call for any straining..the mylks are textured more than store bought soymilk, but not to a bothersome degree. My blender is not a high powered machine, but it does fine with the mylks. Some nut bits settle in the jars, but I just shake them before I use them. They have been fine in recipes and smoothies. Yay for cutting out a step!!!
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