antioxidant drinks
July 27, 2009
Look what I found on Saturday!
I was actually looking for harissa paste in the gourmet shop at Corte Inglés (no luck) when I spotted these drinks in one of the coolers. One is mostly blueberry, the other acai berry. Have only tasted the former so far and it’s delicious. So I’m going to start alternating these with my blueberry & yoghurt smoothies in order to maintain a good daily level of antioxidants in my diet. Other diet changes will be coming in August, once I am done with the chemo. The drinks are kind of expensive, but so are fresh blueberries (cannot find frozen ones here at all).
I reckon I’m worth it. 
[photo updated to include pomegranate smoothie]
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I love making smoothies – fresh from the fruit. Love drinking them too
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Of course you are worth it!
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Sorry, forgot to add great post! Can’t wait to see your next post!
I’m a bit lazy about making smoothies, but when I don’t get around to making one I have fresh blueberries with yoghurt instead (which I also love).
I just had the acai juice and it’s also quite delicious. These juices will certainly be easier to take to Málaga than fresh fruit and a blender. Also, they are just good to have around as another antioxident fruit option.
Now if I could just find harissa paste…
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Harissa paste is not that easy to find. We make it ourselves here as it is basically a whole bunch of different spices/herbs toasted and ground into smithereens and then mixed with oil. We are making it in bulk now and it keeps very nicely on the shelf. The ingredients are as follows:
Harissa
2 t cumin seeds
2 t coriander seeds
1/2 t cardamon
4 t chilies (pequin, thai, or serrano)
10 cloves
1/2 t whole black pepper
Toast all 3/4 min in hot dry pan.
Cool and grind into a powder
Add: 1/2 t cayenne, 1 t salt, 2 cloves of garlic minced.
Put in jar and add olive oil to cover. Stir before using
You are totally worth it!
I love blueberries, and we’re lucky enough to live just up the road from a place we can pick our own. They freeze quite well, too. Too bad I can’t bring some for you in September! I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t make it till then…
Speaking of antioxidant fruits, how do you feel about pomegranates? Don’t they grow in your part of the world?
Pomegranates are indeed grown around here, alejna. They look rather tricky to eat though. And weird … after reading your comment I went to the supermarket to get some more smoothies and saw they also had pomegranate! So I have now updated the blog post photo (look up). Haven’t tried it yet, but I’m sure it will be delish.
The other day the guy in the gourmet shop told me that I should be able to find harissa paste in the supermarket, so I had another look today and … there it was! A small tin for 1.20€, which seems quite reasonable. But it will have to wait until I’m finished with the chemo because I am having stupendous “dire rear” at the moment and spicy food is not what the doctor ordered, so to speak.
But thanks for the recipe, hmh. It sounds very good.
Pomegranates are a religious experience. They are not that tricky to eat, you just have to get naked first.
Heh, that reminds me of an old friend whose mother used to put her and her brother naked in the bathtub to eat pomegranates when they were kids.
I’ll try the smoothie in the morning and maybe even get round to trying an actual pomegranate one of these days.
(just saw that this is post 1,111 – cool)