Sweet Strawberry Shake

Stop what you're doing, I've sussed it. Here is it, the ultimate, insanely perfect, impossibly wondrous (AND SPOOKILY HEALTHY) strawberry milkshake. That's by anyone standards. Beauty is in the eye of the mason jar holder.

Wherever you are look up your nearest supermarket, head to it and buy the following ingredients (if you are somewhere strange and horrid, such as in a forest or on holiday somewhere that doesn't offer WiFi or 3G then, I hate to break it to you, but you're going to have to use a map and compass and get walking. It's worth returning to the old-age methods of travel for.)

Ingredients:

1 cup of frozen strawberries
5 pitted dates
1 dessert spoon of manuka honey
Almond milk to the max line, if using a nutribullet (if not, it's approx 200ml)
2 Tsp of strawberry Nesquick (optional. A baddy, but a goody)

Whizz up, pop in a pretty glass, decorate how you wish (or don't bother if the anticipation becomes too strong. You can find what I did with mine below: the milkshake, old fashioned paper straw and a slice of strawberry on top, all served in a mason jar. Ladies love mason jars) and enjoy, preferably in your favourite sunny spot in the garden.

It's thick, sweet and with a heavenly natural taste of proper, Somerset-grown (depending on where you hail from) strawberries.

Hello, British Summertime. As always, we're angry you left us for so long but we must forgive you, as we have of course all missed you so much and we love you even more.

The Nutrigasm Group

Good afternoon all, I hope your Bank Holiday Monday is treating you well. Mine has led to me sitting on my iPad in the sunshine, blogging about yummy smoothies - so all's well from my end.

After a fair few weeks of hasty throwing-in-of-kale and overly keen amounts of spooky things like wheatgrass, aloe vera juice and matcha tea powder; I think I've finally cracked it. AKA, my smoothies are finally edible, healthy and making a real difference to the way I feel.

To save you all some time buying the Nutribullet, scrambling around for fresh ingredients that ultimately don't work together and holding your nose while you drink said smoothie, I thought I would provide you with four of my showstopping recipes. These four recipes have earnt themselves a place in the rather selective Nutrigasm Group, a group that only allows in smoothies that truly bring pleasure to the lives of their drinkers. As part of this group, the smoothie is entitled to add 'gasm' to the end of their titles, and forever shall be known as such.

Some of the following recipes offer comfort, some offer a strict purpose and some are for those of us looking for a little something different. Pick out the things you like, change what you don't and guzzle down whatever combination leaves you with. 

Let me know all your thoughts and, if any of you have any contenders for the Nutrigasm Group, please comment them below and I will happily blitz away and do various taste tests (it's a hard life, but someone's got to do it…)

The Super Greengasm

 Ingredients:

One whole red apple, peeled and chopped
One whole pear, peeled and chopped
10 slices of cucumber
1 hunk of ginger (you may also refer to this as your ginger hunk)
A handful of kale
A shot of aloe vera juice (optional, depending on whether or not you think you're hard enough)
Coconut water to the max line

The Ultimate Peanut Buttergasm

Ingredients:

1 Tbsp raw cacao powder

2 whole bananas, peeled and sliced

2 Tsp of Meridians organic peanut butter

Almond milk to the max line

Black Forest Gateaugasm

Ingredients:

Half a cup of frozen, sliced strawberries
Quarter cup of frozen raspberries
Quarter cup of sliced banana
1 Tbsp raw cacao powder
Almond milk to the max line

The Berry Rose Watergasm

Ingredients:

Half cup of raspberries
Quarter cup of blueberries
Quarter cup of bananas
2 Tsp of rose water
Water to the max line

These little cups of joy are sure to spice up your mornings - I always look forward to mine at around 10:00, just after the first manic working hour of my day has gone by - and please do let me know how you enjoy yours and how these concoctions go down in your world.

Until then, blast on and peace out Nutribulleters.

Nutribullet

For months now I've been seeing photos people who are actually managing to get horrible things such as kale and spinach and raw beetroot into their systems, with what I had assumed to be ironic hashtags such as #Yum and #Delicious.  I thought it was high time to see if my friends were trying to make us all feel bad for not eating veg, or whether there truly is a way to make salad enjoyable, so it's time to step forth and take a bullet and see how I get on.

I'll be posting recipes I try, good or bad, and be genuinely honest about whether this is a money making scheme or a waist-shaping tasty invention and ALL your comments, words of encouragement (especially on days when I'm downing things that are lurid green) and also any tasty recipes you have tried, will be welcome.