For Christmas, my partner's parents gave me a Magic Bullet Nutribullet. Ever since, we've been trying to determine how best to use it.
We have successfully figured out pretty much any recipe for sweet drinks, especially if they use ice cream. It's pretty hard to mess those up. We're having a harder time figuring out how to make the healthy drinks.
We have a bunch of ingredients, but my partner's preferred green is kale. And our grocery store only sells curly kale. I look forward to months from now when I can go find flat-leaf kale. Curly kale chips are pretty gross.
Here's a picture of a smoothie we tried:
Inside: kale, cucumber, fresh ginger, apple, green pepper, frozen mango, and coconut water.
Conclusion: too much ginger!
The ginger overwhelmed the flavor of anything else. I enjoy ginger, but I'm not a fan of it THIS much.
We've had good success with two kale smoothies.
The first one, a banana and kale smoothie, was pretty good. It had a stronger flavor of cinnamon than I'd prefer. I may try it again with 1/8 tsp of cinnamon instead of 1/4.
The second one we made up. I looked for recipes on the internet. I didn't find anything I wanted (primarily because I dismissed recipes using ingredients I'd forgotten we had). After looking around and comparing recipes, I used about half kale, and half frozen pineapple and mango and half a banana. We used coconut water in it, but as we had so much frozen fruit, I had to put in regular water after initial blending.
That one was good, but had a weirdly fishy flavor. Partner thinks it was from the pineapple. It's possible. Maybe I should have thrown in some almonds or something.
I'll keep trying with different recipes. The book that came with the device is unhelpful because it says use 50% greens (and presents a list), 50% fruit (and presents a list), and maybe a boost (and presents a list). Kale is rough to work with because it needs citrus to balance it out. The book doesn't say that though. We also find kale a bit easier to use than spinach. Despite what the book says, spinach was a harder-to-hide flavor than we've found kale to be.
We have successfully figured out pretty much any recipe for sweet drinks, especially if they use ice cream. It's pretty hard to mess those up. We're having a harder time figuring out how to make the healthy drinks.
We have a bunch of ingredients, but my partner's preferred green is kale. And our grocery store only sells curly kale. I look forward to months from now when I can go find flat-leaf kale. Curly kale chips are pretty gross.
Here's a picture of a smoothie we tried:
Inside: kale, cucumber, fresh ginger, apple, green pepper, frozen mango, and coconut water.
Conclusion: too much ginger!
The ginger overwhelmed the flavor of anything else. I enjoy ginger, but I'm not a fan of it THIS much.
We've had good success with two kale smoothies.
The first one, a banana and kale smoothie, was pretty good. It had a stronger flavor of cinnamon than I'd prefer. I may try it again with 1/8 tsp of cinnamon instead of 1/4.
The second one we made up. I looked for recipes on the internet. I didn't find anything I wanted (primarily because I dismissed recipes using ingredients I'd forgotten we had). After looking around and comparing recipes, I used about half kale, and half frozen pineapple and mango and half a banana. We used coconut water in it, but as we had so much frozen fruit, I had to put in regular water after initial blending.
That one was good, but had a weirdly fishy flavor. Partner thinks it was from the pineapple. It's possible. Maybe I should have thrown in some almonds or something.
I'll keep trying with different recipes. The book that came with the device is unhelpful because it says use 50% greens (and presents a list), 50% fruit (and presents a list), and maybe a boost (and presents a list). Kale is rough to work with because it needs citrus to balance it out. The book doesn't say that though. We also find kale a bit easier to use than spinach. Despite what the book says, spinach was a harder-to-hide flavor than we've found kale to be.
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