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Eat the Rainbow Smoothie!

 

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Nobody loves a creamy, delicious smoothie better than I do.  So when Williams-Sonoma invited me to help kick off their upcoming "Smoothie Week" with a couple of my favorite "Not Your Everyday Smoothies", I was super excited!  

Last week I shared the delectable Chocolate Covered Matcha Smoothie.  This week, I thought I'd jazz things up with a wonderfully colorful concoction we can all wiz up in our with whatever favorite fruits & greens we happen to have on hand.

Fresh smoothies are simple to make and incredible for our body, mind and spirit. I make them daily because they're absolutely delicious, alive and radiant… and they make me feel the same way!  We all know how important it is to eat the rainbow daily and this delicious Eat the Rainbow Smoothie is a lip-smackingly yummy way to do just that.

 

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So grab your favorite juicy berries, sweet bananas and bright colorful mangos &  pineapples galore!  (Feel free to choose frozen fruits. They're frozen at the peak of ripeness and, ironically, are often more nutritionally rich than fresh produce which is picked prior to fully ripening, followed by weeks of transport, store display, and time in our homes before ever being eaten)  Add a handful of powerful, chlorophyll and mineral rich greens to tuck inside all that flavorful goodness… and you're ready to get blending.  Simply layer it up in whatever manner you'd like.  Optionally, top it with your favorite berries or superfood treats such as dried mulberries an goji's as I've done here… or keep it simple and leave it as is.  Voila, you've got a perfectly luscious fireside treat for bundling up with in your favorite chair, all yours to devour 🙂

 

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Recipe for Eat the Rainbow Smoothie (Serves 2)

Ingredients

  • 4-6 frozen super ripe bananas
  • 1 cup frozen or fresh berries (pick your fav!)
  • 1 cup frozen or fresh mango or pineapple (or whatever you have on hand)
  • 2 handfuls of greens such as spinach, romain, chard, parsley
  • 1/2 a fresh lemon (optional)
  • dates, raw honey, stevia or your fav sweetener to taste
  • optional: additional fresh berries &/or superfood toppings such as mulberries and goji berries

Method

  1. Blend the bananas and sweetener to taste in your Vitamix or other high speed blender til smooth and creamy.
  2. Dump 1/3 the mixture into the bottom of your 2 favorite smoothie containers. Dump the other 2/3 into a bowl & set aside.
  3. Add greens & optional lemon to the Vitamix along with 1/3 of the leftover blended bananas. Blend til creamy, taste to adjust sweetness as desired, and divide amongst your 2 smoothie containers. 
  4. Add berries to blender and 1/2 the remaining blended bananas. Blend and dump atop the first two layers in your containers.
  5. Add your mango or pineapple and last portion of blended banana to the Vitamix. Blend and add to your smoothies.
  6. Top with your favorite fresh berries &/or superfoods such as mulberries & goji. Or just leave it plain which is super yummy too!

Enjoy 🙂

 

You may also enjoy these fabulous smoothies:

 Cleansing Quadruple Berry Acai Smoothie
Daily Detox Green Smoothie
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Shake
Chocolate Chip Mint Shake
Epic Baby Thai Coconut Smoothie
Blueberry Coconut Shake
Delicious Green Smoothie
The Happy Shake

 

Do you have a favorite “Not Your Average Smoothie” ?

  

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All Love,

 Juliane

 

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How to eat a Dragon Fruit

 

Dragon Fruit makes it’s own exotic and beautiful serving boat!

Eating a wide variety of different foods is crucial in a healthy foodstyle to ensure we’re receiving all the nutrients we require, and to prevent overdoing any one particular nutrient as well.  As the saying goes, “the medicine is in the dose”.  One of the ways I add variety to my diet (ok, really I just do this cause I think it’s fun) is by shopping at the various specialty markets in our area.  I know, I know, eating local has all sorts of great wisdom behind it, so do that too.  However, it can be like taking a mini trip into another culture to step into a place that caters to a totally different region of the world.  (Speaking of… do you love shopping the local markets when travelling as much as I do!?)  For example, the Asian market in our area is brimming with huge piles of the most amazing tropical produce – stuff that’s totally unavailable in typical grocery stores – from the exotic Dragon Fruit featured here, to amazing selections of wild mushrooms, my fav indulgence, the creamy, custardy Durian and more.  It’s a must stop at least once a month.  

 

Plant based raw living foods are stunning to behold!

This gorgeous Dragon Fruit is harvested from a night-blooming cactus grown in tropical regions such as South America and Thailand. The unusual, colorful fruit sprouts from the arms of the cactus, and is created only if the cactus flowers are pollinated at night by nocturnal creatures such as bats and moths.


Is your mouth watering yet? 

 

Dragonfruit is delicious and sweet, similar in flavor to kiwifruit, pears or mango.  It’s full of nutritional benenefits including vitamins B1, B2, B3 and C, iron, phosphorus and magnesium in addition to being a rich source of antioxidants, fiber and essential fatty acids including omega-3.

 

Plant based living foods infuse us with their powerful beauty!

How to select:  Avoid buying over ripe dragon fruit which you can detect if it’s got lots of blotches on it or if the fruit is overly dry and the little points around the fruit are super brittle and already crispy.  You want bright and even colored fruit with firm hydrated points.

When is it ready to eat?  When the little points begin to dry and become flexible the fruit is ripe.  I let mine sit in the sun in my kitchen until this point.  

How to prepare:  Just slice it open and scoop it right out by the spoonful or get fancy and use the shell as a beautiful serving bowl filled with cubed up Dragon Fruit and a few blueberries or anything else your heart desires!

Raw Living Foods such as the Dragon Fruit are high vibrational gifts to our bodies, mind and spirit.

Enjoy!

Have you tried any new fruits or veggies lately?

Do you love perusing food markets when you travel like I do?  What have been your favs?

What’s the weather like where you are?  It’s quite warm here, temps reaching 80 F today! 

All Love,

Juliane

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