Cocoa Loco Juice

Hello! Hello! This is a drive by blogging - just before a cheeky workout with el podgero*. I have been juicing pretty much every day for at least a year now - and while I love all the combinations that veggies and fruits offer - I confess I tend to stick with some old faithfuls and I was getting a little bored.

Juicing is healthy, fun and easy but come winter it's easy to swerve the undoubted wonderment of juice and head to the sandwhich aisle. Fine - if you're all good with wheat - but the grain doesn't love me.

So here for you is an accidental discovery - made this afternoon. I just needed something naughty!
 
I give you a beet juice with choccy woccy happyness thrown in...

Low Carb Cauliflower Rice

Here's another quick entry for the low-carbers. I should confess that I don't like cauliflower but someone told me recently that you can grate the white florets and make a sort of cauliflower rice. Well I was too intrigued not to try it! Turns out you can - and it's jolly tasty tucker if you cook it like I do - with lots of butter...

Half a head of cauliflower is enough for two people.

Grate half a head of cauliflower. Melt a generous couple of knobs of butter in a large frying pan - or skillet if you've got one.

Sling in the cauliflower 'rice' and keep it moving so it doesn't fry so much as gently fluffle.

Add lots of black pepper and a twitch of salt.

That is all...

Anyway you like it. As long as it's mashed!

February's damp chill still has a grip on supper around our house. Most nights we cuddle ourselves up in a slow cooked stew or a big hearted soup for tea - shivering and longing for Spring - proper.

February is also usually the month I face facts about the toll of Christmas scoffing, New Year's failed resolutions and Valentine's chocfest - so I am invariably cutting out carbs, saying 'no thank-you matey' to the butter dish and torturing myself by deliberately looking at myself in the mirror, instead of skipping past my reflection doing the eyeball equivalent of 'la la la la la I can't hear you'....

So here for you are just a few of my recent experiments in low carb mash. Or guilt free bashies. So called because although they do have some starch and carby content - they are not nearly as carborific as spuds and and and - they are really, good for you...