RE: Re: How much meat? Nut/Seed smoothie recipies?

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yes, yes, yes, please post?

Lilla

Me too!

I would love to get a recipie for a nut/seeds/spices smoothy!

[Guest guest]

>>yes, yes, yes, please post?

Lilla

Me too!

I would love to get a recipie for a nut/seeds/spices

smoothy!<<

I'm very pleased at the interest you've all expressed in

the live nut/seed smoothies... As you all probably know

I feel that living nuts and seeds are a powerful and

fantastic addition to the healthy diet... for many

reasons. I have run into some literature that does

caution against nuts and seeds in high amounts due to

these ovums (nuts and seeds are ovums, fruit, you know?)

higher salicilate (sp?) content, like the kind in

aspirin which thins the blood and reduces its ability to

clot... if there are any " O " s with platelet aggregation

deficiencies or blood-thinning problems or are on some

medication that thins the blood (and O's are naturally

less thin-blooded and have clotting difficulty) than I

would suggest you investigate this issue before eating

hundreds of calories of nuts and seeds in a meal... Just

a note of caution.

I must admit I have no set recipe for my nut/seed

smoothies. I feel the action of blending the nuts and

seeds makes for a super-digestible format, so I have

been making many smoothies for myself over the months. I

will tell you how I typically make mine.

I usually use the three " C " s of sweet indian spices:

coriander, cloves, cardamom, all of which are ground. I

also like to use ginger, I grate it or grate and press

it for its juices with a garlic press. I love chocolate!

I use pure cocoa powder (why isn't it called its real

name: cacao? it is a bean from the cacao plant...) and

balance the bitterness of pure cocoa with sweets, I

usually use about 1/16 a teaspoon of green stevia powder

and one or two teaspoons of raw unprocessed honey (for

them yummy digestive enzymes! those new bees need an

easily digestible super-food!). Pure, unprocessed

blackstrap molasses (is there any other kind?!?) is also

good for complementing the chocolate flavor. Mint,

either as dry herb or fresh, very good. I sometimes like

to use cayenne powder, the heat is good for sweets. I

sometimes like to use freshly ground black peppercorns.

A little almond extract can be good... even if I'm using

skinned almonds in the smoothie. Of the sweet spices I

use less than 1/4 teaspoon of each, I vary the amounts

because I'm still experimenting with different flavors.

And giving exact amounts rarely does anyone any good

anyway because it depends on the strength of the spice

due to its age, storage... you know? I've only recently

seen that cinnamon is allowed (I don't have the latest

book, I only have CR4YT, not even ER4YT). There are

other sweet spices, such as fennel and caraway that you

can experiment with. A sprinkle or two of salt is

necessary for full flavor, maybe a little squeeze of

lemon or lime (not much). I don't use more than five or

six tablespoons of dried raw seeds like sesame or flax

or hemp for a single twelve ounce smoothie. Almonds I'll

go for four ounces of, by most nutrient profiles that's

over twenty grams of protein and over six hundred

calories from fat! Lots of fiber too... over ten grams I

think.

So go to it and have fun! Report back to us... let's

grow together.