Green {Brown} Smoothie

Have you guys heard about the new "brown" smoothie fad? Ya out with the green, and in with the brown! 

Okay I'm just kidding. This was our first attempt at making a "green" smoothie, and we thought it was hilarious that it turned out being more brown than any other color. But we know it's probably because of some of the strawberries we put in made it brown. It's of course equally healthy as green ones.

We were very pleased with it being our first time. The consistency was perfect! We did add a lot of fruit, but we gotta wean ourselves off from our red smoothies to green. Baby steps right? Tonight we're going to try cucumber and mango with some of the other ones below. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

5 baby carrots

2 white cabbage leaves

3 strawberries

1 large frozen banana

1/3 cup crushed canned pineapple

1 cup apple juice

6 ice cubes

handful of kale leaves (they were precut and cleaned)

GF Homemade Granola

My sister Kim made this when we went over to their place on a Sunday night. She called ahead of time asking for rice chex (in place of the rice krispies), GF flour, and GF oats. Here is the recipe.. We made Acai bowls with them, which area always a treat. And it's so nice when family and friends can accomodate you- they start to notice that it's really easy to cook GF or just substitute different ingredients.

Granola Bars


1/2c butter
1/3c brown sugar
1/3c honey (I do half honey & half molasses)
1/4c (she used Namaste)flour
1/2t vanilla
1/4t cinnamon
2c rice chex cereal- smash up
2c GF oats
1c dried fruits (and/or cho chips,butterscotch chips, etc – I used dried
apricots & craisins)
1/2c chopped nuts

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 9x13 pan with nonstick cooking spray &
set aside.

Melt butter in a large pot over low heat. When melted whisk in sugar,
honey, flour, vanilla & cinnamon. Remove from heat and add the remaining
ingredients. Mix well.

Transfer the mixture into the baking pan. Using a sheet of wax paper & flat
hand press the granola firmly & evenly into the bottom of the pan.

Bake for 20 min until golden brown. Allow the granola to cool for 1 hour
in the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before cutting into
bars (or smash). Makes 16 to 24 bars.