Smoothie number 3 was nice...
Alright, let's rewind a bit. We are Lisa and Dan. About a week ago we visited a juice/smoothie bar while killing time in town and ordered a couple of fruit based drinks. As they were quite delicious we thought we'd try making some ourselves at home, so we bought a juicer and a smoothie maker and flung ourselves headlong into smoothie making experiments.
Some of the concoctions were good, some were bad and some were probably better suited to the building trade.
"We'd better write some of these recipes down" we thought, then it hit us "why not write them down on the internet in blog form detailing our most, and least, successful attempts to discover liquid nirvana".
This is the result. Our Smoothie Experiments.
The Equipment
We wanted to do this on the cheap, so after wandering around Tesco ripping open the boxes of their blender and juicer inventory we settled on the following hardware.
- A Kenwood Smoothie Maker - Cost about £25 and looks like a blender with a more funnel shaped tube and a tap on the front.
- A Tesco Value Juicer - Cost less than £15 and does the job. We looked at the "Whole Fruit Juicer" model but decided against it as you still needed to peel anything you'd want to put in it and if you are peeling it you might as well spend a couple of extra seconds (and save yourself twenty five quid) chopping it too.
- Tesco plastic picnic cups - 70p for 4!
That is it. We are ready to experiment.
