Grumpy Glenn

Posted By Grumpy Glenn and Judy on June 1, 2009

Judy, “The Dip Lady” discovered green smoothies and blended veggie drinks about a year ago. Always in a quest to find more ways to get in those important veggie servings into her body in a raw state, she searched the internet for ideas. She discovered a few great websites that continue to be great references even after a year of testing and practice with various combinations of fruits and veggies.

Those websites and links to them are:

• Green Smoothie Challenge
• Green Smoothie Girl
• Easy-Yummy-Smoothies

After this weeks purchases at local Farmers’ Markets, this delightful drink was blended. A few ingredients were store bought (organic of course), but in just a few weeks that won’t be necessary!

Veggie Smoothie Recipe – Serves 2
Put the following items into blender – put softer ingredients in first if you don’t have a high powered blender.
8 oz filtered cold water
1 Fresh Tomato quartered
1 Red Bell Pepper
1 Carrot
2 Radishes
Handful of Green Onion Tops
1 Clove Garlic chopped or ½ tsp garlic powder
½ small Cucumber or ¼ large – skin removed
2 handfuls of fresh Spinach
3 stalks Celery

Season to taste – I used ½ tsp grey sea salt. I’ll add pepper and/or a teaspoon of Galena Dips Kickin’ Cajun or Southwest Chipotle dip mix next time to give it some heat. Fresh or dried herbs such as basil, oregano or cilantro would also be delicious.

Enjoy!

Blend until all ingredients are liquefied. If you don’t have a high powered blender, you might need to drink and do a little chewing at the same time. It’s still really yummy, and a wonderful way to get those healthy local veggies into you when you don’t feel like a salad.

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