Betty Boop Beet Berry Heaven Juice

This is heavenly - the colour is the colour of a wicked girl's knickers and it tastes just as naughty. The great news is - it's so good for ya - you can do something scurrilous later and your naughty/nice balance will still be even!

You do need a juicer and a good strong hand blender to make this lovely juice. 

Ingredients:
2 raw boop boop beetroots (don't even think of using cooked)
1 apple
1 nectarine (stoned - oh I'm so resisting the joke... it's killing me!)
1 parsnip (don't panic - you won't taste it, it adds body and goodness)
small handful of frozen mixed berries (or you can use fresh blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, whatever berry you like)
1 large chunk of lemon, rind on (more or less, depending on how zingy you like it)

Method:
Juice the beets, lemon and then put through the parsnip, nectarine and the apple.

Add the berries (frozen or fresh) to the beaker and blend with the hand blender. Add ice if you're using fresh berries and you like it cold.

Find out what's in it...

Mart's Summer Sunshine Juice

My friend Mart is off on another of his juice odysseys. His first was inspired by the documentary made by Joe Cross - Fat  Sick & Nearly Dead - which is on TV this week. It's a great watch and after stumbling across it on you tube, Mart did a long juice feast himself with the blessing of his doctor - who incidentally has been amazed at his success. He's lost weight, come off any number of pills and improved his health massively. 

So now he's setting out to lose some weight in advance of an important operation in September.  This time, I thought I might support him in a more practical way - than just yipping on his blog* each time he loses a llb!


So here is my first attempt at a lovely juice for lovely mart x.

Power Oats | The Breakfast of Queens...

I've been on a bit of a journey lately - and in my quest to pack my day with delicious and high value nutritious food, I've tweaked my beloved oats to deliver some serious extra 'ooomph'!

I promise you if you try this - you'll sail through your morning to lunchtime without one single snack machine drive by... Terrue!

There are a few ingredients in it that you might not have kicking around your kitchen, but you can get the lot at Holland and Barrett and if like me you prefer to buy a little more cheaply - then try online. I have a cupboard full to bursting with seeds, and nuts at 1/3 of the price of high street 'health food' outlets!

Punk Pumpkin Swoop with Garlic and Chorizo

For the last couple of weeks - me and him have been suffering with a low lying bug. THE best cure is rest and plenty, plenty garlic. So here is the perfect swoop for when you're feeling miserable and sniffley. If the snot-monster's got you in his clutches - beat him off with a huge steaming bowl of Punk Pumpkin - TAKE THAT YOU BAD MONSTER!

Freezi Luli BerryYog & Meringue

Here's what I made up the other day in an effort to avoid work... You need to choose a day you are pottering about at home - there's a lot of tooing and froing to the freezer and the real beauty of this little experiment is that there's extra bunce.

You have to beat the mixture hard and often - so a) you can take out your frustrations on it while creating a really delicious pud and b) you'll use a few calories up while you make it. 

No, no! No need to thank me. I live to please. 

 

Read on for the recipe

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...

Sweet potato gratey burger matey

Last night we had beef burgers from the butcher. (I warmly recommend you try your local butcher's burgers and saussies there is no comparision with the flaccid meat-pops you buy in the supermarket. So there!)

I flung together a swee potato rosti/tortilla that was so delicious I'm posting it here so I remember it next time. It's not really a rosti because it doesn't really go crisp but it isn't a tortilla either because you do grate the potato - I'm calling it a rostilla. You can call it Frankie.

 Warning: You will need two frying pans to flip the rostilla. Be bold my friends.