All posts filed under: Smoothies and other drinks

Tepache – a bubbling pineapple drink made from the peel!

For New Year’s Eve, I made a dessert with caramelized pineapple and homemade ice cream and was thinking if you could do something with the peel. After spending some time on Google, I found Tepache, a Mexican bubbly pineapple drink made on the shell. So exciting that I immediately went to work! Do you also want to try? Cool!

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Virgin Mango Bellini

Just when you thought the summer began to run out, I turn up with a summer-like virgin mango Bellini! Easy to make and filled with taste.

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Ice cold coffee drink with super powers!

It’s been hot in the Netherlands lately! So hot that I started to look for alternatives to my daily hot coffee… Therefor, today a ice cold pick-me-up coffee drink with lots of goodies in!

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Smoothie bowl with taste of summer

I can’t wait for the summer to come but while waiting I make this smoothie bowl with taste of summer! 

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Chocolate smoothie with hidden courgette

Really? A chocolate smoothie with COURGETTE! No, I didn’t go crazy. This taste sooo good! The frozen courgette with cacao creates a milkshake-like drink that I often make for my husband and myself in the afternoon as an extra energy boost.

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Ginger and lemon shot

When visiting Sweden and Denmark for Christmas, I found small bottles with a ginger shot for sale everywhere. So fresh, and quickly I became a major consumer! Once back in Holland again, I missed my shots and decided to fix because my own. Today I therefore offer you a delicious ginger and lemon shot!

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Power juice with fresh fennel and ginger

Autumn, bright colors and high air! Each season really has its charms. Today you get a simple recipe for a real power juice with fresh fennel and ginger. Maybe it even can defeat possible colds and other evil bacillaries that comes your way?

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Review Optimum 700 advanced cold-press juicer and a Cavalo nero juice

Some time ago I received a Froothie’s Review Optimum 700 advanced cold-press juicer. After a few weeks of using the machine, I’m ready to write a first review with my findings including a small recipe for a simple and mild green juice. 

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Fresh dessert with coconut milk, red berries and rose water

The inspiration for this dessert I had years ago in an Indonesian restaurant. I have never had it since but the tastebuds hadn’t forgotten about it. It was time to create a copy-cat from an old food memory, fresh dessert with coconut milk, red berries and rose water!

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Refreshing icetea x 2

Even though the summer isn’t really that warm until now here in the Netherlands, its still too warm for me to drink my normal morning tea. So I came up with these refreshing icetea x 2  to drink instead. I prepare a new batch  every second day and can zip al day long.