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Little Jack Horner

Sat in the corner,

Eating a Christmas pie;

He put in his thumb,

And pulled out a plum,

And said ‘What a good boy am I

Then little Jack Horner

Go up from his corner

And a blender did catch his eye

So he grabbed up some greens

Revved the machine

And said “DANG MAN THIS SMOOTHIE IS OFF DA HIZZY!”

Plum Pear Green Smoothie Recipe:

2 c water

2 medium pears (soft and ripe!)

3-4 plums (3 large or 4 small)

4 c of greens (kale, spinach, chard, lettuce)

10-15 dates (10 large or 15 small)

Repeat the above dumb plum poem while blending

Serves one monster (yields ~1 L)

Check out this page for videos on how to make a smoothie!

Succumb to Plum!

Apricot Banana Green Smoothie Recipe:

2 c orange juice (or water if you are concerned w/ the food-combination)

3 medium bananas

2-3 apricots (2 large or 3 small)

4 c of greens (kale, spinach, chard, lettuce)

5-10 dates (5 large or 10 small)

Attack Apricots Angrily with Banana-d Blender Blades

Serves one monster (yields ~1 L)

Check out this page for videos on how to make a smoothie!

So its no secret I’ve been on an carrot orange juice kick lately, drinking plenty of the stuff since I bought my new Oscar Vital Max 900 juicer!  And since this combination is so tasty tasty, I have been introducing some variations, earlier this week it was carrot orange beet juice.   Now, today, we’ve got carrot orange sweet potato juice.  Why sweet potato?  Because it makes an awesome juice ingredient and it is super-healthy - check out this post for more.

Carrot Orange Sweet Potato Juice Recipe:

6 medium carrots (9 in/22cm)

3 oranges

1 medium sweet potato

 Masticate!

yields ~ .5 L juice (triple that for a monster appetite)

Sweet Tater-ific!

What can make the ever-stupendous carrot-orange juice recipe even better?  Beets!!!  Beets have high level of anti-carcinogenic compounds, so they make incredibly healthy juices!  They are pumped full of antioxidants that protect the body against heart disease and certain cancers (mainly colon cancer). Beets get their red-color from the pigment betacyanin which increases the oxygen-carrying ability of the blood by up to 400 per cent!  Wowzers!  That’s great news for athletes!

Carrot Orange Beet Juice Recipe:

3 oranges

1/2 medium beet (w the greens!)

3 c carrots (3 large carrots)

 Juice It!

yields ~ .5 L juice (triple that for a monster appetite)

Just Beet it!

If you can’t tell, I’m on a bit of a coconut kick of late.  First a coconuts-mango combo, then a coconut-strawberry creation showed up!  Well, to continue the tend, I now bring to you, my fellow fruitmonsters, the….

Orange Coconut Green Smoothie Recipe:

1 c orange juice

1 c water (if no OJ, use 2 c water and add a few more dates)

2 oranges, peeled, seedless

1 banana

.5 c of coconut guts! These are obtained by scraping out the inside of one drinking coconut.  (you could use dried coc0nut, but that may not impress, try about 1/3 cup)

3-4 c of greens (I used a whole head of cos/romaine lettuce in mine!)

20 dates

Go coco-crazy, and lay waste to those coco-guts! (umm…that means blend it all together)

Serves one hungry monster! (yields ~ 1 L)

Check out this page for videos on how to make a smoothie!

Coconuts and Navels Belong Together

Okay, I’ve been holding off on posting to this section of the blog, not knowing what to do with it.  So I’m going to keep it rather simple… if I fruitmonster up a meal based around fruits and leafy greens, it heads directly to this section of the site!  Who knows, maybe people will love these recipes, maybe they won’t.  There is only one way to find out!

So here’s the debut ‘Fruit Meal’!

Orange-Capsicum Salad Recipe:

Okay for starters, let us clear up that a ‘capsicum’ is the same thing as a ‘bell pepper’ for you northern hemisphere folk!

What you’ll need:

4 Cups Romaine/Cos Lettuce

2 Oranges

1 Capsicum/Bell Pepper – Any color will do, mine’s red!

12 dates

.5 cup Orange Juice

Directions:

First, chop up the Romaine/Cos lettuce until it is in conveniently bite-sized pieces and put it in your salad bowl.  Then, peel the orange, gut the pepper and then and chop them up into small chunks as well, adding them to the mix.  Remember a fruitmonster makes things easy on themself and doesn’t worry about the silly differences between chopping/cubing/slicing/dicing… who needs the lingo!  Just make it easy to stab with your fork and fit in your mouth (or in true monster fashion – eat with your hands!!).  Next, break up the dates (pitting them of course) into halves and sprinkle them overtop of the salad.  Finish it off with a dousing of orange juice as a dressing and WOO HOO!  Orange Capsicum Salad!

Life is Sweet… Eat that salad up!

FM

That Romaine Ain't So Plain

Eureka!  I’ve added orange juice as the base of one of my smoothies and the result was delectable – lucky you!  Here comes the berry-blasted recipe!

Orange Berry Green Smoothie Recipe:

2 c orange juice – the fresher, the purer, the better! (You could also use 1.5 c water and 2 oranges!)

1.5 c frozen berries (blueberry, strawberry, blackberry, etc)

2 medium bananas

3-4 c greens of your choice!  (spinach, kale, lettuce, chard, etc.)

12 dates

Dump ‘em together and pull da’ lever!

Staves off hunger for one monster (Orangey-Output ~ 1 L)

Check out this page for videos on how to make a smoothie!

Berry Nutritious, Orange You Glad You Monstered?

*For the purposes of this site, I will be qualifying any juice + blender combo as a ‘Puree’*

Listen up monsters, this is the best tasting thing I have ever made/posted to this site.  You need to snag some dates (preferably Medjool dates) on your next trip to the grocery store, grab up some oranges (or OJ if you don’t have a juicer yet!) and make this recipe.  I promise you that you will not be disappointed with the amazingness of this creamy drink!

This drink is titled “daterade” which is pronounced “date-er-rade” and the general idea of it came from a drink that Teddi found through an Australian gal named Freelee (check out her site too!)

Orange-Daterade Recipe:

Juice of 2 large oranges (skins removed!) ~ 12-14oz juice

3-4 large *pits removed* medjool dates (or 1/2 cup deglet noor dates)

Directions:  After juicing the oranges, throw the dates and the juice in the blender and puree for about 1 minute!

The Definition of Delicious. (Seriously Make This Now!)

For a tropical-twist in your Carrot-Orange Juice, try adding pineapple to the mix!

Carrot Orange Pineapple Juice Recipe:

2 large navel oranges (or 3 small ones)  - PEELED!

1 c chopped fresh pineapple (or about 2 1 in x 5 in spears)

2 c baby carrots

Slap that Carrot-OJ Silly with Some Pineapple Sauce

Time to pound down some more tropically-teriffic juice!

Today, we enjoy the zest and tang of Orange-Pineapple Juice:

3 large oranges

1/4 of a pinneapple (thats about 2 cups of chopped pinneapple

Do the Tropical Tongue Tango