Enjoy the days when you’ve bought a box of peaches from the farmers market or Trader Joe’s. Four or five peaches in a smoothie for breakfast and a single for a snack wrapped in basil later in the day. This smoothie uses frozen bananas which are a great replacement for ice. They add a little bit of flavor and a …
Quick bites–which I’m coining in relation to Feed Your Skull–as a fewer words, quick share of something delicious I’ve made recently. Jeremy and I have been vying for blender privileges this week and yesterday I WON! 🙂 So I threw in all the greens. We had a little cilantro, fresh basil from the farmers market, …
Are you curious about homemade peanut butter? Of course you are! I assure you that it is a million times better than store-bought, it can be creamy or chunky, and is oil and salt-free. Today I share how to make it in the Blendtec Twister Jar as well as a food processor. I’ve made homemade …
Sometimes combining two of your favorite things is a bad idea like sauerkraut and chocolate or horseradish and mango but sometimes you reach that magical middle and find a combo that works. Chocolate and pumpkin pie spice. Yes. In a smoothie. Yes again. This smoothie makes enough for two people or go all in and have it …
Strawberry ‘Caramel’ Smoothie! 2 cups frozen strawberries 2 ripe bananas 1/4 pineapple 4 pitted dates Water to desired texture Blend, share, love!
This morning I woke up with a craving for banana cream pie. I have no idea why. Maybe the very ripe bananas were calling to me from across the apartment. Banana cream pie was never my favorite dessert but my Great-Grandma could whip up a fantastic one with the best homemade crust around. This dessert …
Today is the day you’ll learn how to make super fresh, soft, ‘no reason to stir’ homemade sesame seed butter – aka tahini – aka sesame seed paste. It doesn’t matter what you want to call it, what matters is it’s tasty. So tasty. If you’ve been making your own nut and seed butters in …
Today’s smoothie is probably one of the ‘go-to’-est smoothies around, a banana mango kale smoothie. The perfect trifecta of favorite fruits and greens. It wasn’t long after I tried green smoothies with spinach that I next moved onto kale. In fact, the first time I bought or tried kale in my life wasn’t until the last …
Have you ever put cucumber in a smoothie? Today is the day. Meet Cucumber Winter Smoothie. This was a delicious smoothie and is filled with plant fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, anti-cancer properties and let’s not forget great flavor. I lucked out yesterday when we visited Morrow Brothers Produce mart, they had beautiful English cucumbers …
I was inspired to make today’s blueberry maqui madness smoothie after a recent trip to Portland’s Kiva Tea Bar and Spa. We were delighted to receive a sample smoothie using Navita Naturals freeze-dried maqui berry powder. What is a maqui berry? Maqui berries are native to Chile and offer innumerable antioxidants. “The berries are particularly …