A Yummy Summer Cooler!

[darklotus1211]

Hi all of my Northern Hemisphere Summer swelterers!  It's colder than a brass monkey's ... *ahem* ...nose here, so these will have to wait for me, but I saw this yummy recipe/how to for a combo of flavours for ice blocks (Aussie name for popsicles, freeze pops, icy poles or ice lollies, depending on where you hail from) that had never occurred to

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[rangerishot]

Carrot and ginger! You must do it! I once had a carrot and ginger juice waiting for a friend of mine in Melbourne. A little juice bar up on Spring St that I had walked past at least twice before I suddenly became aware of it. It is worth pointing out that I was almost dying of thirst by the time I got my juice but it was seriously one of the nicest things I've tasted. Awesome flavour and enough like carrot to know it's carrot but not with the bittery taste of it. The ginger counteracted it beautifully.

Now that I have a blender, I've been giving the whole raw foods thing a go. Not because I want to become a vegan, far from the truth. But I find that as much as I love sweet things, I can't really do them on a grand scale whereas the raw sweet cakes I've made and tasted are yummy without the sickening sweet feeling afterwards. The watermelon and parsley icy poles (what we called them where I grew up; I've never heard of ice sticks) sound as though they could very much be of a similar nature and given the Territory is hot basically all year round (in fact, I was eating some ice cream as I read this post), I can certainly enjoy them all year round as well. :-)

[darklotus1211]

I love carrot and ginger juice - that's been a family favourite since my nanna bought a juicer in the late '60's, but I've never made ice blocks out of it - I'm going to this year.

As you know, I also make my own ginger beer every summer and I've made ice blocks of this, too. If you can get them to freeze quickly enough, they even still have a slight fizzy feeling as you eat them.

I eat a lot of raw foods, but then again, I always have because whenever we were settled, we always had a vegie garden and all we kids were browsers and encouraged to be that way. My son has picked up the same habit as me and so we'll often have raw vegies with our meat at a main meal, or just a plate of raw vegies, sans meat. I did do a raw food thing for a while when I was a vegan and didn't find I felt deprived at all.

At the moment, I'm slowly going back to my normal diet as I was initially on a mushy diet while recovering from my stomach bleed, plus genetic testing has shown I have both the markers for coeliac, so while I've never been a big eater of gluten laden foods, I'm now going gluten free, which is an adjustment, too,

The bland and soft diet was hard, as I'm not a fan of mushy veg, but you do what you have to. My digestion is still rather delicate, so it's been trial and error - some things I can now stomach, while others are still not tolerated so I have to lay off them again. The things I miss the most at the moment are citrus fruit and tomatoes - I just can't tolerate them, although I can now digest cooked tomatoes. I miss my fresh fruit and veg!

I'm definitely staying gluten free, as they've found I have some polyps that I have to have removed in about a week - so better safe than sorry, as coeliac can give you a higher chance of cancer of the intestine and bowel, and I lost my brother to adenocarcinoma, which is linked to coeliac disease. Hopefully all will go well with the surgery and I'll be fine after and they'll turn out to be benign. I'll get there, though.