This morning's smoothie was somewhat more exotic, as the local market had strawberries on very special offer!!!
I've used half a dozen large strawberries, an apple, a kiwi fruit, an orange, a couple of Brazil nuts and some Oatily milk substitute. Can't you just feel the goodness?
As always, just blitz it all together, admire the colour and enjoy the fruity deliciousness.
I'm often asked what I eat for breakfast, and since it varies daily, it's difficult to be precise! I thought I show you why.
Most mornings I make myself a fruit smoothie. I vary the fruits according to what's in the fruit basket, and what takes my fancy each morning. So there's no standard breakfast, really.
This morning, for example, I chose the following:
Mango, apples, satsumas, linseeds, brazil nuts and crystalised ginger. I add soya milk or yogurt to make it as thick or thin as I want it to be, as well.
I take a pint glass and add the washed and/or peeled fruit in sizeable chunks. I leave the nuts and crystalised ginger whole.
I then add some milk substitute and whizz with my Bamix.
The Bamix cuts through whole Brazil nuts and crystalised ginger without any problems, if you use a less powerful stick blender, you may need to chop them first. Or use a food processor. I'm lazy, and prefer to make my smoothie in the glass I'm going to eat it from to save washing up!!!
As you can see, it shrinks down somewhat after it's been blitzed, so if you were apalled at the thought of a pint glass, relax :) Don't you just love those tiny flecks of colour from the apple skin, and the mango flesh and satsumas?
BTW some kind souls informed that I can't call my smoothies "fruit smoothies" because they don't contain banana. Well, I'm allergic to bananas, so I don't eat them. I believe that my concoctions are just as much a fruit smoothie as anyone else's - they're full of fruit, and whizzed until smooth. Maybe I should call them smooth fruities, instead? What do you think?
I am not superstitious. I walk under ladders, I consider 13 to be just an ordinary number, I don't panic if I smash a mirror.
My breakfast is usually a fresh fruit smoothie. I invested in a Bamix blender, which cost £160, but it's got a ten year guarantee, and it's been brilliant at making my breakfasts, I'd recommend them to anyone who needs powerful blending, and wants to save washing up!
I'd washed my pear and apple, and peeled my kiwi fruit. I chunked them and put them in my pint glass, along with a tablespoon of linseeds, 3 cubes of crystalised ginger, 2 brazil nuts and a splash of soya milk.
I put the Bamix into the glass, switched it on, and a milky mess sprayed the hand over the glass - I hadn't actually submerged the blender head. How stupid of me. Never mind, I licked my fingers (it's ok, they were clean), submerged the head and started again.
I heard the click of the kettle, so reached across to pour the water on to my coffee grounds. Big mistake. I knocked over the glass and spilled about half of my smoothie across the kitchen worktop. Blast.
"I think I'm going back to bed.!" I said to my partner.
"Why's that?"
"They say things go in threes, I've had two mishaps already, the third might be worse."
"You don't believe that."
"True, but you never know."
Breakfast continued without a hitch. I went to work on the pc, then noticed the sun was suddenly shining, so decided to put the washing machine on.
As I was pouring in the washing liquid (vegan, of course) my partner asked me to go upstairs and give him a hand with something in the loft conversion for half an hour. I closed the machine door and left the kitchen.
About three quarters of an hour later, we'd finished upstairs and I went to make us a well deserved cuppa. I hadn't planned on paddling that morning, but that's what I had to do - a lake flooded the kitchen floor!
I waded over to the washing machine to see water pouring out of it. Somehow I hadn't used sufficient power to actually close the door, but there must be a fault in the machine and it had begun the wash cycle despite the door being ajar!!!
So there we are. I'm not superstitious, things don't really happen in threes - or do they? What do you think?
