Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Raw Vegan Recipe (video): Butterfly Blossom Smoothie

by Kristen in banana, butterfly blossom smoothie, easy raw vegan recipe, hemp protein, hemp seeds, orange blossom water, video, wheat grass powder, young Thai coconut

After I made the video showing you how I open a young Thai coconut, I wanted to make a smoothie I’d been tossing around in my head that included young Thai coconut. I grabbed my camera and recorded the following video, even though I hadn’t made the recipe until now. How will it turn out? You’ll have to watch to find out. As you’ll see, I didn’t have a name for the recipe at the time of recording, but here is what I came up with: Butterfly Blossom Smoothie. It seemed just right. :)

OK! I am cracking up at the shot YouTube automatically chose to show in the beginning of this video. hahahaha – I think I’ll keep it like that.

Butterfly Blossom Smoothie
Recipe by Kristen Suzanne of KristensRaw.com
Yield 3 cups

1 cup young Thai coconut water
1/2 cup young Thai coconut meat
1 cup pineapple, chopped
1 cup frozen banana, chopped
1/4 cup hemp protein powder
1 tablespoon hemp seeds
1 tablespoon wheat grass powder
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
splash orange blossom water

Blend it up and enjoy.

Avocado Fruit Scooper – Awesome Kitchen Tool! (Video)

by Kristen in avocado, chocolate mousse, dessert, easy raw vegan food, kitchen equipment, Kristen's Raw, orange blossom water, raw, tool, vegan, video

This is one of my favorite kitchen gadgets (available here). What can I say? I’m a gadget girl. It makes scooping out avocado so effortless and FUN! They make GREAT gifts, too! (Holidays aren’t that far off.) :)

And, it comes in a pack of three. I use the red for avocado, the green for getting the greatest, longest pieces of coconut meat from young Thai coconuts, and the orange is supposed to be great for mango.

Now… some of you might say, “Oh, I can use a spoon for that.” Well, let me tell ya. The beauty of this scooper is that it (like practically every time) takes out the avocado in one lovely perfect avocado half. And, that makes it easy for dicing up when serving the avocado in other kinds of dishes. So, for example, when I dice avocado for a salad or a noodle dish, I need the avocado in as perfect a piece as I can get. Then, I slice horizontally in half (across) while keeping the avocado in place. Then, I slice vertically through in 3-4 slices. Voila, it’s like perfect little cubes. If you used to a spoon to get the avocado out, odds are, it comes out in pieces, making the dicing process not as nice and uniform.