Banana ice cream

Banana ice cream with lingonberry juice

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Is it true that to create a delicious desert you need lots of sugar and cream?  Up to now this has been the situation for me and particularly Ben&Jerry ice cream has been my number one.
Eventually I remembered an old trick I learned from a friend back in -93. Put deep frozen bananas in a food processor and you have instant ice cream!

Think about the effects on your health compared to ordinary ice cream! Only natures own stuff in unheated condition

Try to by very ripe bananas, peel them and deep freeze them in plastic bags. Now your are ready to put up a delicious desert at any time.

Banana ice cream:
about 1 litre of deep frozen bananas
juice from a 1/2 lemon
1 tbl honey
Put the juice and the honey in the food processor and blend till the honey is mixed with the lemon juice.  Now the honey will mix better with the frozen stuff. Add the bananas, preferably let them soften in room temperature for half an hour, and run it untill it's all smooth.  Serve with blended lingonberries (or cranberries).  I juiced the berries in my new Coway juicer and it made a delicious sauce, very soft.
Bon appetit!

Wednesday juice feast

Ingredients for a supergreen juice

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Jocke suggested that we each wednesday drink a lot of juice.  Those who really go for it, only drink juice instead of eating.  The Juice Brothers is Jocke's and mine project to promote a rawer lifestyle and having fun doing it.  Juicing is a fast and easy way of getting more valuable nutrients, anti oxidants, minerals and anything you can imaging into your system as effectivly as possible.  Upto now I haven't had a good wheatgrass juicer so there hasn't been any supergreen juices in my life.  Yeasterday I bought one, Coway Juicepresso.
In the afternoon I went to the Hakaniemen halli and bought 1 kg of wheatgrass and 1 kg of mangold.  Really green stuff.  The wheatgrass extracted excellently and tomorrow I will try the mangold.  I had more than 1 dl of wheatgrass juice in one gulp.  Terrific taste but perhaps a little too much to start with. This is strong stuff!  I also juiced fresh lingonberries.  That was fantastic, finally I can consumate lingonberries by the litres.  The pulp of the berries was extremely dry.  You can't achieve that with a centrifugal juicer.

May the juice be with you!

Red veggie stew

 

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Yesterday I returned late from teaching in Kalix and this morning it was serious juicing. Juicing is an excellent way of recuperating.  Some hints from The Juicebrothers. Todays lunch was chosen by the colour.  So many ways to decide what to have for lunch, colour is one of them.

Red veggie stew for two:
3 belly peppers

6 tomatoes
3 tbl oliv oil
1,5 tbl balsamico
1,5 tsp salt
2 dl pine seeds
(cashew,brasil,macadamia)
1 sellery stalk
10 cm leak
Fresh basil for garnish

Chop the tomatoes fine and put them in a sieve to drain.  Chop half of a pepper, the leak and the stalk of sellery as fine as possible.
Blend the rest of the peppers, oil, balsamico and the pine seeds to a smooth sauce.  test the taste! Drink the tomato water as an aperitive and mix the tomatoes and the other chopped ingredientes with the sauce.  Garnish with fresh basil.
Bon appetit!