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KNR, p. 183 “Kerrian’s Famous Pumpkin Smoothie”

 

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It’s that season when all things pumpkin are the rage. Maybe it’s the hundreds of pumpkins calling to us at the stores/farmer’s markets or maybe it’s the crisp Fall air, but nature’s advertising compels me to try a new pumpkin recipe every year.

 

Sheila is right there with me and the challenge is not to come up with something new, but how to rein in our enthusiasm and just pick one to share.

 

We looked at the Kerrian recipe list and saw no pumpkin smoothies on it, so, for your sipping pleasure, here is the Kerrian Pumpkin Smoothie.

 

And, in keeping with our kitchen’s body-free policy, no people were harmed in the making of this great drink. Promise.  😉

 

Pumpkin Smoothie with Cinnamon on top

 

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Kerrian's Favorite Pumpkin Smoothie
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Recipe type: Beverage
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Serves: one
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup organic pumpkin puree
  • 1 cup 2% lowfat milk or coconut milk
  • 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup ice
Instructions
  1. Place pumpkin, milk, and brown sugar in blender or mini-food processor and mix until blended – about 30 seconds.
  2. Add cinnamon, nutmeg, sea salt, and vanilla and continue to mix together – about 30 seconds.
  3. Add ice and continue to blend until beverage is thick and creamy – about a minute.

 

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Serves one.

Enjoy!  🙂

 

*Photos by Patti Phillips

 

 

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KNR, p. 175 “Kerrian’s Summer Salad Platter”

 

 

We do a lot of grilling when the temperature rises, but every once in a while, it’s too hot to even turn on the grill. Who wants to stand over hot coals when the heat index is over 100 degrees? Not me, thanks.

 

So we came up with a sure-fire, never fail summer salad platter. It takes about 10 minutes for the prep, requires no cooking and it’s pretty tasty. And, it’s a definite plus when there are no bodies found on the deck because of the heat.

 

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"Kerrian's Favorite Summer Salad Platter"
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Recipe type: Salad
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 1 serving
 
Ingredients
  • 2 cups mix of red and green butter lettuces
  • Whole large tomato - it should fill your hand
  • One 5 oz. can tuna, Albacore or Tongol packed in water
  • 1/3 cup diced celery
  • 1/4 cup Hellman’s mayo
  • One small yellow squash - washed, but not peeled
  • One small zucchini - washed, but not peeled
  • English seedless cucumber, washed and peeled
  • Slices of yellow and red bell peppers
  • Russian, Thousand Island, or Ranch salad dressing
Instructions
  1. Arrange the lettuce leaves on a dinner plate, covering the entire plate.
  2. Core the tomato, then slice it from top to bottom into eight sections - not quite cutting through, so that the sections are still attached at the bottom. Place in center of plate.
  3. Thoroughly mix tuna, celery and mayo together and place in center of the tomato.
  4. Slice yellow squash and place on dinner plate.
  5. Slice zucchini and place on dinner plate.
  6. Cut cucumber into bite-sized chunks and place on dinner plate.
  7. Cut red and yellow bell peppers into bite-sized pieces and place on dinner plate.

 

Serve with your favorite salad dressing and stay cool.

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The recipe is for one hearty appetite, but can serve two if you add bread to the menu.  🙂

 

*Photos by Patti Phillips

 

 

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KNR, p. 197 “Blueberry Watermelon Smoothies”

 

Blueberries have been sighted at the store! Sheila and I both love anything made with them – muffins, jelly, jam, syrup, cookies, pancakes – you get the idea. We buy as many berries as we can while the crop is at its peak, then freeze most of them to save for later in the year. There’s a special shelf set aside in our freezer just for blueberries.

 

This year, we happened to buy a small watermelon during the same shopping trip, so this morning we made watermelon-blueberry smoothies for breakfast. Wow! They were great.

 

Here are two of our favorite fruit smoothie recipes:

 

Watermelon-Blueberry Smoothie (pictured above)

 

Ingredients

1 cup frozen blueberries

2  1/2  cups cubed seedless watermelon

1/2 cup watermelon juice

pinch sea salt

 

Preparation

Use 16 oz (or bigger) blender.

Make watermelon juice by squeezing/straining 1 cup cubed watermelon through a medium-mesh strainer held over measuring cup.  Makes 1/2 cup juice.

Add blueberries, 1  1/2 cups cubed watermelon, watermelon juice to the blender.

Add pinch of sea salt to blender.

Blend until smooth, about 1 minute.

Serves 1

 

Blueberry Smoothie

Ingredients:

1 cup frozen blueberries

6 oz. canned pineapple juice

1/2  cup water

Pinch sea salt

 

Preparation

Use 16 oz. blender (or bigger)

Add blueberries, pineapple juice, water, and sea salt to blender.

Blend until smooth, about 1 minute.

Serves 1

 

Variations:

 

Sheila adds 2 Tablespoons almond butter and a scoop of protein powder to her blueberry smoothies to change them to protein smoothies.

 

Whether you prefer plain or fancy, I can report that nobody in our house died drinking either kind.  😉  Enjoy!

 

Photos by Patti Phillips

 

 

 

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