Okay, so I'm posting this as a caution to any of you who might want to try recipes from this book I've been raving about for the past few posts.

BE CAREFUL with the smoothies in there.  They include flax/hemp oil, a tablespoon combined, which you put in the smoothie.  Something in the smoothie made me very sick and I think it was the oil and not the ( Read more... )

I usually love kale, so I'd been meaning for awhile to try a kale smoothie.  Here's what I did:

2c. chopped, destemmed kale
1.5 bananas
soymilk
1 Tbsp maple syrup
1 Tbsp. flaxseeds

Blend, blend, blend forever. I blended it for such a long time but it still seems like it could stand to be a bit smoother.

Verdict:  it's better than I thought it could be, ( Read more... )

After an all-night paper writing marathon, E. and I made pumpkin smoothies tonight (Idea stolen from here.)  They turned out pretty good.  Unfortunately I only had 8th Continent brand soymilk, which I don't like as much as Silk... so I felt like its chalky weirdness kind of dominated the flavors.  We used like 5 oz of pumpkin puree, maple syrup, a ( Read more... )