Smoothies and Juices: Essential Recipe Handbook

Smoothies & Juices: The Essential Recipe Handbook contains over 250 healthy recipies, with each one providing great pictures and simple instructions. Written by the respected Gina Steer and published by Star Fire, the book looks at a number of recipies that you can make using a juicer, a smoothie maker and/or a blender.

Some of my favourite recipies from the book include Pear and Raspberry Juice, and Cucummber, Apple & Mint Juice. Be warned, quite a few of the recipies aren’t for juicers, but for smoothie makers and blenders. A good book though with some very nice ideas for fabulous drinks. Also, a great touch is that each recipe comes with footnote with a suggested change you can make to create an alternative drink.  The rrp is £9.99 but you should see it cheaper if you shop around.

Grapes, Raspberries, Nectarine and Tomato

So one of the things I love about my juicer is that I don’t tend to follow set recipies as such, although they are very useful and can be really informative, but I like to just see what’s in the kitchen and bung it in and see what I come up with. I just took a peek in the fridge and found half a bag of white grapes, which I don’t think I would have got round to eating, a nectarine and a tomato. I had some raspberries which I was keeping, so I just nicked a handful.

The resulting drink was gorgeous. Pink and creamy, it was jam packed with taste and flavour. The only problem with it was that I got a generous sized glass out of it, but I wanted another one after!

Can anyone suggest a name for this delicious combo? Suggestions in the comments please. Sorry the pictures aren’t up to much, I only had my camera phone to hand.