Am always one to try new things and the latest thing to make it off the shelf and into my shopping basket is some dried Goji berries - they are weird little red shrivelled things and I have skirted round them for some time (remind me to tell you about the pomello one day!) but I am on a healthy eating kick at the moment and so with all the hype around celebrities living off them I figured why not.
Should have more been Why bother to be honest - they are weird things and no doubt. Pop one in your mouth and the first sensation is ohh I have eaten a dusty seed! the second is a taste of old raisin which has been left in the sun too long - the ones they sweep on to the floor and the rats turn their noses up at!
Here I am with a bag of shrivelled red things and I need to use them up - well waste not want not as my granny used to say - so I have started adding them to smoothies - the liquid seems to rehydrate them a bit and at least remove the dusty old seed flavour!!!
So if you have bought a bag and are thinking hey what can I do with these other than force my self to eat them as a snack and pretend they are nice!!! then this one if for you!
Ingredients:
5g Goji berries (dried)
1 Kiwi peeled and chopped
100g blueberries (if you dont like bits then you should blitz these alone and sive the pulp)
1tsp runny honey (optional)
150g Pouring Yoghurt
Chuck it all in your blender and blitz - when you think it is done blitz it a bit more - it should be a rather nice orange colour and tastes slightly of toffee which I can only think is the berries - actually maybe that is what I am doing wrong maybe I should soak them . . . hmm think I will try that . . .
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I love to cook - not in a fancy resturant style but in a home cooked feed the family kind of way.I have been cooking since I was a child and come from a long line of women who believed in sharing love by cooking good food - in fact it came as a shock to me to discover that you could BUY cakes!!!
When I got married I aquired not only 1 husband whose idea of a balanced meal was a big mac AND fries but a brother in law with Aspergers who was desperate to be independant and cook real food for himself and when I started trying to teach him it has made me take a long hard look at recipes, how they are written and what assumptions they make.
When I decided that I would like to write a blog I thought you should write them about something you love so I decided to write about food, share the recipes I grew up with, those favourites I have added to my battered old box of recipe cards as well as my experiences teaching K how to cook!
I hope you enjoy it
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