Healthy Inspirations & More

Blueberries taste lovely. AND they are known for their positive effect on our nervous system and can even protect us against destructive processes in our brain triggering Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's.

GREAT reason to have this fruit even more often - and it results in a beautiful colour in any smoothie (unless you mix them with spinach ;-) ).

So here's the recipe (for 2 portions)

• half an apple
• half a small fennel
• a cup of (frozen) blueberries
• half a banana
• 150 to 200 ml rice/almond milk
• 150 ml of water
• juice of half a lime

Enjoy!

Great for this season: spicing up smoothies with ginger to boost our immune system. Really great taste - only go for it when you like peppery tastes!

That's what you need for 2 portions:

• small cup of raspberries
• one carrot
• half a big apple
• 1 cm of ginger 
• juice of one orange
• 200 to 250 ml of water

Enjoy!

Saturated yellow, thick, full of vitamin C and REALLY fruity!

That's what you need for two portions: 

• juice of one orange
• 3/4 of a khaki (had that one left...sure one will be fine too, to not have a quarter of it lying around)
• half a mango
• juice of one lime
• one carrot
• a few dishes of cinnamon
• six walnut halves
• 200 ml cold water

Mix well and enjoy - very filling and lovely taste! 

What a delicious dish - I dare to say that this was MUCH better than most meals in the restaurants....unless they have a Michelin star ;-).

A tad tricky with the potato crust - but you can do it! 

A wonderful mix of flavours with the extra twist with some horse radish on the fish underneath the crust. 

The creamy parsley sauce just complements the great meal, which takes max. 45 minutes to prepare.

This is what you need (for 2 portions)

• 1 onion
• 1 spoon of ghee
• ½ spoon of flour
• 100 ml vegetable broth
• 100 ml cream
• 2 spoons of parsley
• 400 g Hokkaido pumpkin
• 2 spoons of butter
• a tad of water
• Salt, pepper, a tad of cardamom
• 170 – 200 g of potatoes
• 300 g fish
• 2 spoons of horse radish
• ghee

How to prepare it:

1.      Peel the onions and dice them, melt the ghee in a pot and braise the onions

2.      Add the flour, stir well, then add the broth and the cream and let it simmer for about 3-4 minutes.

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Today's green smoothie is an interesting  - not very obvious mix AND very tasty!

Sometimes we're being rewarded for being a bit adventurous - right!

So here's the recipe for you, today 2 portions!

• 3/4 banana
• 5 cm cucumber
• one apple
• half an avocado
• three stems of mint (you can use them completely or if you prefer to pick off the leaves)
• 250 to 300 ml water
• 50 ml of almond milk

The result: creamy, tender, a bit more on the thicker side side....well, just look at the picture and you see what I mean :-). Fills up quite nicely with banana and avocado and has a lovely mint scent and flavour.

Be careful keeping it too long - it might flag when it comes to the color then… so my tip is to rather drink it right away.

Enjoy!

Sometimes some veggies and fruit just start piling up....some leftovers from meals, smoothies etc.

So from time to time I collect all of that (well, kind of) and produce another smoothie out of it....

This was the actual one (recipe for 2 portions today)

• one small pak choi
• half an avocado
• half mango
• one Clementine
• half a lemon (peeled or just the juice - your choice)
• 8 to 10 walnuts
• 350 ml  cold water

The result: a pretty thick smoothie with a lovely color and a fragrant lovely flavor.

By the way the walnuts I did not find in the fridge :-), they added some nice subtle taste though.

The rest was in actual fact what needed to be used up. Be creative with your stuff and just follow the formula of at least one veggie and some fruit and more often than not it works out.

Alternatively you can spice this smoothie up with some basil or meant.

Red foods are supposed to protect our cardio system - which is responsible for bringing oxygen and nutrients in each of our cells in the body. Most of the "reds" contain antioxidants which  - listen carefully - can slow down or even reverse some ageing processes.

Resulting in looking and feeling better.

So tons of reasons to get those into our system as often as we can!!

So done in the today's smoothie!

Here's what's in this (tasty - I swear) red smoothie for one portion:

• 13 cherries (yes, I counted...took frozen ones, as the cherry season is gone for quite some time
• six cherry tomatoes
• half an apple (also counts as "red"food)
• a quarter of a banana
• a bit of lime juice
• 180 ml of water

Mix weel and enjoy! Really refreshing, a tad creamy, still rather light!

Mango is one of my absolute favourite fruits. Wonderful flavour  - only if they are ripe though! So make sure that you don't use a rock hard fruit - they can easily have a bit of a soapy taste.

Today I used up what was in my fridge....and then spiced it up cinnamon and nutmeg,  with an amazing result! Try it out.

Here we go with the ingredients for 1 portion

• half a mango
• half a banana
• one small carrot or half of the big one
• 200 ml of water
• a good dash of cinnamon and nutmeg
• a bit of lemon juice (bit less than half a lemon)

...absolutely delicious. The spices give a wonderful flavour, love it and this one will come on my favourites' list.

Blueberries and almonds are just shock full of anti-oxidants, which help our cells to fight the free radicals. In English: they help our bodies to decrease damage  - i.e. expressed in diseases or aging - created by those tiny monsters. 

So plenty of reasons to eat those - even better in a delicous smoothie :-).

The ingredients for one portion:

• 50 g of blueberries 
• half a large carrot or a small carrot
• half a yellow kiwi
• half a banana
• juice of half a lemon
• 200 ml water
• a small handful of almonds

Mix well and enjoy !

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Creamy, lovely colour and a very pleasant taste. Just right to start the day! Kaki or persimmon are available right now and just got to the supermarket shelves some days ago here...so perfect to make use of them, as long as they last!

Here are the ingredients for 1 portion:

• half a kaki/persimmon fruit 
• a quarter of a banana
• half the big carrot (or one small one)
• juice of half a lemon 
• 50 ml coconut milk
• 150 to 200 ml water 
• optional a tad of cinnamon