Mixed Berry, Yogurt & Lemon Smoothie

Week 2 of Tosakanth's diet: Fruit and Soup week. I'm meant to have a fruit smoothie for breakfast. The initial one I made had Peaches, Oatmeal, Yogurt, Milk, Acai berry (grose!), Cranberry, Honey and Sugar. It was pretty bad. The oatmeal, although wholesome and filling made it taste pretty bad. I know Acai berries are meant to be good for you, yardi yardi yar,  but it tastes foul doood! not cool. It has this really grose oil taste to it which made the smoothie pretty inedible/indrinkable. I sucked it up and drank it because I was super focused on this diet. Since that was a very bad first smoothie experience, I was thinking of other smoothie flavours that I could whip up and actually enjoy drinking, and that's how I made this commonly awesome smoothie.

Ps: Tosakanth's diet plan is proving to work. 2kg's lost with just a change in diet. Yeehaaa! and then I went and ate chocolate! sigh. and I don't even like chocolate.

Your Challenge: A smooth Smoothie recipe to soothe thee!

 

 
                     

                           

Ready --- Steady --- Blend!


Mixed Berry, Yogurt  & Lemon Smoothie
(1 Serving)


INGREDIENTS:
10-15 pieces of mixed berries (25g)
1 tablespoon sugar
30ml milk
60ml yogurt
20ml water
1 tablespoon lemon juice

METHOD:
add all the ingredients into a blender, and blend for 30 seconds. Voilà!

Note: if you want a thicker smoothie, add more yogurt or fruit.

Challenge Accepted ???

Enjoy!

Tosakanth

Tosakanth's Sangria

Sangria is my new favourite chillaxing drink. Since Spring is finally coming along and the sun is out, I like whipping up some Sangria to relax to after a long day of doing nothing.

As usual, I used a sangria recipe to get the general gist of ingredients, but I make my own easy -6 ingredient- sangria for my daily merriment. 

What I pretty much do is put what ever I have at home into a pitcher and call it Sangria. Do observe:


Your challenge: Give it a go and let me know which one you prefer. I bet it's Tosakanth's Sangria that is more dear..

Ready --- Steady ---Drink

Tosakanth's Sangria

INGREDIENTS:

1 Granny Smith apple

1 Orange

few squirts of Lemon juice to taste

1/3 bottle Red Wine

1/3 bottle White Wine

1 can of Energy Drink (preferably V or Redbull)

METHOD: 

1. Cut the orange and apple into 0.5cm slices

2. Squeeze the juice from the orange into the pitcher and put the pieces in too

3. Add the apples in to the pitcher

4. Add the Lemon juice to taste

5. Add the Wine

6. Add the Energy Drink

7. Mix and chill in fridge

The Original Sangria Recipe:

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 Bottle of red wine (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Rioja, Zinfandel, Shiraz)
• 1 Lemon cut into wedges
• 1 Orange cut into wedges
• 1 Lime cut into wedges
• 2 Tbsp sugar
• Splash of orange juice or lemonade
• 2 Shots of gin or triple sec (optional)
• 1 Cup of raspberries or strawberries (may use thawed or frozen)
• 1 Small can of diced pineapples (with juice)
• 4 Cups ginger ale

PREPARATION:

1. Pour wine into a large pitcher
2. Squeeze the juice wedges from the lemon, orange and lime into the wine. 3. Toss in the fruit wedges (leaving out seeds if possible) and pineapple. 
4. Add sugar, orange juice and gin. 
5. Chill overnight.
6. Add ginger ale, berries and ice just before serving. 

If you'd like to serve right away, use chilled red wine and serve over lots of ice. However, remember that the best Sangrias' are chilled around 24 hours in the frig. - allowing the flavors to really marinate into each other. 

Challenge Accepted ???

Enjoy!

Tosakanth