Over the years I've juiced and whizzed fruit with varying successes and if you, like me, love gadgets then you too no doubt will have worked your way through a plethora of gadgetry. I've now sent the juicer to the charity shop, it has sat unused in the cupboard for ages, mainly because I feel that we should be eating the fibrous stuff the juicer spews out and not throwing it away. I bought my juicer many years ago and it was only used at weekends - I've enjoyed every single drink we made but not enjoyed cleaning five separate parts, or the dreaded filter which hubby was employed to scrupulously clean.
I've been blending drinks too over the years but my new kitchen toy really does make fast work of the task. Those pesky redcurrant seeds will take a little longer to blitz and I found adding another 30 seconds to the blend time did the trick. So in 'Thermie talk' here's the method: Chop 5 Sec/Speed 5 - Blend 1 Min/Speed 10 - Add more water if necessary Blend 20 Sec/Speed 3.
In my freezer there always seems to be frozen fruit coated in ice that I haven't used up quickly enough and these are perfect to use and saves adding too many ice cubes.
My drink is made from frozen blackcurrants and redcurrants (from my garden), a peeled orange (chopped), 1 x quartered apple (Braeburn always taste lovely) and a little water to loosen the mixture and thin down the drink.
I struggle with green smoothies and drinks and to date they aren't on my agenda for blitzing and I can't comment on these, but I've used a variety of fruits over the past few weeks and find that adding an orange to lots of blended drinks makes a huge difference to the flavour.
I'm definitely not going to wax lyrical about how living off fruit drinks and smoothies will change my life in 2016 - I try to blend a few times a week, when I fancy a refreshing drink or need to use up the last of the fruit bowl.
Well, I'm loving my new present from hubby and whizzing up things in seconds, come on what's not to love!
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