I've been using my appliances to add new foods to my weekly menu. Using the blender, I've enjoyed making smoothies. My favorite recipe is 1 small mango or 1/2 a large one, a small or medium sized banana, 1 cup or so of berries, the juice of one tangerine, and water. This makes a deliciously healthy and beautiful smoothie that is just as much a pleasure to look at as to drink. Using the food processor I have chopped up cacao nibs into near powder and found that it was fine in flavoring smoothies. I processed an ounce of cacao nibs and only needed about two teaspoons of the resulting powder for the smoothie.
The dehydrator has been loads of fun. Remember the smoothie I made this past weekend with the young coconut (yuck), banana, dates, agave nectar and mango? Well, I didn't throw all of it away- I put some in the fridge in order to try making a fruit rollup out of it. The dehydrator is running right now and I'll be taste testing the results tomorrow. By the way, a thank you to those who schooled me a bit about the coconut. It was suggested that coconut water is great in soups. I'll bet it is! I have yet to try raw soups yet, so there's something for my future menu.
The only appliance I haven't made use of is the "saladacco", which makes those fun shapes out of vegetables (like the long apple strings I made during my first test). If anyone has suggestions for that appliance, please let me know. I plan to run some zucchini through it. I'm also thinking of doing the apple that way again and then dehydrating it for an interesting-looking snack. Another project will be making "bread".
Today's Foods
BREAKFAST (SALAD)
Lime Juice, 1 fl oz
Taboule Salad, 4 tbsp
Basil, 3 leaves
Blue Cheese, 2 oz
Spinach, fresh, 3 cup
Red Ripe Tomatoes, 1
LUNCH(SANDWICH at school)
Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Grain Bread, 2
Hummus, 1/4 cup
Avocados, California (Haas), 1 oz
Taboule Salad, 4 tbsp
DINNER (SUSHI)
Sushi Nori, Raw Untoasted, 1 sheet, 1 serving
Scallions, 1
Spinach, fresh, 7 leaf
Kikkoman Soy Sauce, 1 tbsp
Taboule Salad, 4 tbsp
Turnips, 1 slice
Ginger Root, 1 grams
SNACKS (SMOOTHIE)
Banana, fresh, 1 large (8" to 8-7/8" long)
Mangos, 0.5 fruit without refuse
Blackberries 3/4 cupt, frozen
Vitamins
Pecans, 1 oz (20 halves)
CALORIES 1,234 CARBS 146 FAT 56 PROTEIN 46