Grapefruit-Orange Breakfast Shake
It's National Grapefruit Month! Hurry and make this yummy breakfast smoothie, before the month is over.
This shake is not too sweet and filled with fiber, as it uses the fruit itself and not just the juice. Recipe comes from a book I am really enjoying, called A Good Food Day: Reboot Your Health with Food That Tastes Great by Marco Canora, with Tammy Walker.
Canora is a chef who found himself overweight, pre-diabetic, suffering from gout, etc. due to his poor eating habits. Kind of like the shoemaker's kids who don't have shoes, it seems that many professional chefs spend their waking hours making good food for others yet neglecting their own diets. This was true for Canora. Lucky for us, he made some healthy changes and shares his real-life wisdom in this book.
I am still reading the breakfast chapter, but he's already got me buying steel-cut oats and chia seeds and putting stuff like cilantro in my smoothies. Someone take my temperature, quick.
A GOOD FOOD DAY'S
ODE TO ORANGE JULIUS SHAKE
1/2 grapefruit, peeled
1/2 orange, peeled
1/2 t. vanilla
1 T. honey
1 c. ice
1/2 c. plain yogurt (Canora recommends full-fat plain Greek yogurt; I use fat-free regular plain yogurt)
Put everything in your super duper blender and whirl away. (Note: I blend the grapefruit, orange, vanilla, and honey first, in one batch, then add the ice and yogurt and blend again. I find when I put honey in the blender at the same time as anything frozen, the honey just congeals into a sad little ball at the bottom and refuses to mix well. Poor little honey.)
This shake is not too sweet and filled with fiber, as it uses the fruit itself and not just the juice. Recipe comes from a book I am really enjoying, called A Good Food Day: Reboot Your Health with Food That Tastes Great by Marco Canora, with Tammy Walker.
Canora is a chef who found himself overweight, pre-diabetic, suffering from gout, etc. due to his poor eating habits. Kind of like the shoemaker's kids who don't have shoes, it seems that many professional chefs spend their waking hours making good food for others yet neglecting their own diets. This was true for Canora. Lucky for us, he made some healthy changes and shares his real-life wisdom in this book.
I am still reading the breakfast chapter, but he's already got me buying steel-cut oats and chia seeds and putting stuff like cilantro in my smoothies. Someone take my temperature, quick.
A GOOD FOOD DAY'S
ODE TO ORANGE JULIUS SHAKE
1/2 grapefruit, peeled
1/2 orange, peeled
1/2 t. vanilla
1 T. honey
1 c. ice
1/2 c. plain yogurt (Canora recommends full-fat plain Greek yogurt; I use fat-free regular plain yogurt)
Put everything in your super duper blender and whirl away. (Note: I blend the grapefruit, orange, vanilla, and honey first, in one batch, then add the ice and yogurt and blend again. I find when I put honey in the blender at the same time as anything frozen, the honey just congeals into a sad little ball at the bottom and refuses to mix well. Poor little honey.)