Golden Planet Juice I was having a conversation with two someones on different occasions recently. “It’s what we do when we are well that affects us when we are not well,” was the takeaway. This is a yummy, taking-care juice. As bright as the sun and feels good with every sip. Golden Planet Juice 1/2 cucumber 3/4 Granny Smith green apple (I ate the other 1/4 while preparing the juice) 2 medium golden beets 1 cup of baby carrots pinch of Himalayan pink salt Wash and cut all fruits and veggies. Skin on or off. Feed produce though the juicing machine. Pour juice into bucket glass. Add pinch of pink salt. Glass: bucket glass Garnish: none Where to buy the juicers and glassware and stuff? Blonde Behind the Bucket Storefront, of course. I may receive commission from eligible purchases.
Pink Smoothie Pink Smoothie Ingredients 1 Cup of unsweetened soy milk 1 frozen banana 1/2 Cup of chilled chopped red beets (cooked or raw) 1/2 Cup of frozen mango chunks 1/2 Cup of frozen pineapple chunks 5-8 Dates (pitted and soaked in water) 2 Tablespoons of cashew butter 2 Tablespoons of dark maple syrup 1 Tablespoons of coconut oil 1/8 Tablespoons of Himalayan pink salt 1/4 Tablespoons of turmeric A few dashes of fresh ground black pepper Handful of skin on raw almonds Very large handful of fresh washed and cleaned spinach leaves Large handful of coconut flakes Method Soak your dates in water to softer before adding to the blender. Add all ingredients to a blending machine. I use Cuisinart. Blend together until smooth. Voilà . Glass: fun colored glass (my glass is a vintage poppy trail china glass from 1970s) Garnish: toasted coconut flake, shaved beets, chia seeds, shaved cashews-whatever you like or no garnish at all Where to buy Cuisinart, ingredients and stuffs? Well, if you are going to visit Amazon.. Blonde Behind the Bucket Storefront has the goods. *** I may earn commissions from eligible purchases
PRB (pumpkin root beer) float This was supposed to be a test batch, but the recipe is too good not to post. May I present the PRB float: Pumpkin Root Beer Float. PRB float Ingredients 1 can of pumpkin purée 1 can sweet condensed milk 1/4 t cinnamon 1/4 t of allspice 1/4 t ginger powder 2 dashes of cayenne pepper 2 dashes turmeric powder dash cardamom 3 dashes of Himalayan pink salt freshly ground black pepper three or four turns of the pepper grinder 1 can of Root Beer Method Add all ingredients to a bowl and mix until smooth. For the first round, I poured the mixture into unlined and unoiled ice cube trays. The remaining mixture that didn’t fit into the ice cube trays was poured into a loaf pan lined with parchment paper and lightly oiled with avocado oil. All vessels were placed directly into the freezer overnight. The mixture freezes softly and needs to be blended to create a smoothie-like soft serve texture. Think of it as soft serve ice cream. Once blended and creamy, pour it into a glass or bucket and top it off with root beer. Ice cube tray batch needed the help of small spoon to be removed. Silicone trays would be better. The lined loaf pan was great. I picked up the parchment paper, transferred to the marble board and cut into pieces. I mostly stood in my kitchen eating the product from the ice cube trays. Behind the scenes: It’s me practicing my video eating from ice cube trays in a dim lit kitchen Me again, in Tatum’s Tiny Kitchen practicing my video.. Little frosty from my freezer.. Where to buy trays and ingredients and stuffs? Blonde Behind the Bucket Storefront Please know I may receive compensation for eligible purchases. Thank you!
A Good Goldie Challenge accepted. Riff on a Negroni. Sort of. Here. It. Is. You’re welcome. Wink. Wink. Stir A Good Goldie A Good Goldie 2 oz Bombay Sapphire gin 1 oz of Liquor 43 1/2 oz dry vermouth 1/2 oz Antica Carpano sweet vermouth 3 droppers of rye chocolate bitters 6 dashes of orange bitters Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice. Stir and strain over ice. Garnish: orange peel or dehydrated tangelos Glass: bucket glass Please enjoy of the legal drinking age and drink responsibly Where to buy the goods? You know dehydrated fruits because you can’t be bothered, or dehydrator because you can, or chocolate bitters because you can’t be bothered, or cocoa nibs and rye because you can, and glassware or other stuffs? Blonde Behind the Bucket Storefront of course. Please know I may receive commissions from eligible purchases. Thank you!
The Vera This bottle of Ritual Zero Proof was gifted to me. Introducing the first of many recipes to come with this alcohol alternative. You won’t miss the alcohol. In case you were wondering. The flavors are specific and pronounced without being overpowering. Most certainly comparable to the spirit intended to mimic when mixed. This summer slushy will be a go-to for sure for those I don’t feel like drinking for whatever reason days. Cheers! The Vera! The Vera Ingredients 2 oz Ritual Zero Proof Tequila alternative 1 1/2 cups of Pitaya Foods frozen aloe vera chunks 1/2 cup of fresh organic cucumber and a ribbon to garnish 1/2 oz agave (I used a Whole Foods brand 365) 1 whole fresh washed green lime (only need half for this recipe) Salt for the rim of the glass Taste testing .. it’s good. It’s good. Some behind the scenes before the method.. Method Wash cucumber. Using a vegetable peeler, carefully slide vertically from top to bottom of the cucumber with light pressure to create two or three ribbons. Refrigerate until ready to use. Cut a lime in half. Use a lime to moisten the rim the glass. Add salt to a saucer and roll the glass in salt and set aside. Refrigerating your salt rimmed glass a superior choice. Put a cold thing in a cold thing keeps the original cold thing cold. Besides you know you love a frosted glass. Save the half for the finishing squeeze once the drink is in the glass. Rough slice the cucumber. Skin on is my vote. Add to blending machine with all other ingredients. Blend until smooth slushy consistency. No ice needed as the frozen aloe vera chunks the « ice ». Remove the glass and cucumber garnishes from refrigerator. Pour slushy mixture into the glass. Top with garnish. Squeeze the juice from the fresh lime used to rim the glass pre salt for brightness, over the drink. Glass: Glass bucket glass. Melamine if pool side. Garnish: Cucumber ribbons Where to buy some of the goods in this post? Blonde Behind the Bucket I may receive compensation for eligible purchases.
The Sunshine Glass Smoothie The Sunshine Glass Smoothie Ingredients 1 cup of fresh mango from Erewhon market or your local farmers market or favorite supermarket 1/2 cup of Whole Foods 365 brand frozen pineapples chunks 3/4 cups of Pitaya Foods frozen passion fruit chunks 2 tablespoons of Manitoba Harvest hemp hearts shelled hemp seeds -the protein comes from these babies. The recommended serving size is 3 tablespoons 1 tablespoonful of Manukora MGO 200+ manuka (or any of your favorite manuka honey) Manuka honey is from New Zealand. 1 tablespoonful of a local honey (I use Topanga honey with honeycomb. Fun fact: taking a small dose of honey helps with some allergies) 1 scoop of Agent Nateur & Dr. Will Cole holi (mane) hair ski nails supplement 1-2 tablespoonful of La Tourangelle Avocado oil ** pinch of saffron optional—I tried it both ways 5-7 Whole Foods 365 brand mango passion fruit fruit bites for the garnish and eating while making the smoothie. Let’s be real. This will happen. At least for me it did. Method Add all ingredients to the Cuisinart To-Go Blending cylinder. Blend on the smoothie setting until smoothie is a smoothie. If you don’t have a Cuisinart any blending machine should work. Pour into a glass and garnish. Swipe to view ingredients photos and some of the process.. Glass: glass bucket glass Garnish: several passion fruit mango balls Passion Fruit Pineapple Mango Protein Smoothie Protein Smoothie Protein Smoothie Where to buy the goods: Blonde Behind the Bucket Storefront
Pear Mocktail This is the mocktail of your dreams. I say that about all of them, I now. You won’t miss the vodka or bourbon, I promise. Sweet without being too sweet thanks to the date syrup. Thanks date syrup. This A-team brings it. Yes, pear and ginger, looking at you. Don’t you just feel healthier looking at them? The thirst quenching lemon sparkling water tops it off bringing it all together. Oh and the two dots of caffeine from Tazo ginger pear green tea a subtle jolt; You know just enough to leave the caffeine sensitive unaffected. So, not to worry you shouldn’t be climbing the walls. I wasn’t and I haven’t had coffee in over two years. Besides all of the above, who can resist extra botanicals and aromatics from a nonalcoholic bitters for that final je ne sais quoi. This mocktail certainly has a certain something alright. I’d be surprised if you didn’t want to drink more than one. Cheers! Pear Mocktail 2 different types of pears (Bosc, Comice, Anjou, Bartlett, Starkrimsom you choose) my pears were given to me. 1 small knob of ginger for slicing ginger chards 1 oz Trader Joe’s date syrup 2 ounces of ginger green tea 1 oz of sparking lemon mineral water (I use Pellegrino) 3 drops of baking spice, ginger All the Bitter aromatics Method Place bucket glass with ice into the freezer. Wash all produce. Boil water. Remove tea bag from packet. Add both to a glass or mug. Steep ginger green tea for 3 minutes. Refrigerate until cold. Best results overnight. Add several slices of fresh ginger, equaling about 1/2 teaspoon. If you like it spicy, make it a teaspoon. Then add 3/4 of a chopped medium sized pear to a mixing glass. Muddle until juices are extracted. Next, add 1 oz of date syrup and 2 oz of ginger green tea. Then, add ice and shake. Strain into you chilled ice filled glass. Don’t forget the 3 drops of bitters. Top with lemon sparkling water. Garnish with a slice of pear or the whole pear you choose. I like the whole pear. The topper The pour Glass: bucket glass Garnish: whole pear Where to buy the goods, ok- glasses and stuffs? Blonde Behind the Bucket Storefront
Doogh 2.0 Doogh 2.0 Years ago.. I’m talking twenty plus years I met a friend on a random job in NYC.. we became friends after a few hours and went to shop at Bloomingdale’s for swimming suits after work that day….When I moved to Los Angeles, she came to visit. We went to a restaurant in Westwood and after my first doogh I was hooked..I bought mint a few times but it went bad as I was working on something else…today I finally made it. I blended some ice and mint with plain non fat yogurt (this one is cow as I ate the vanilla sheep yogurt the other morning at 4:am). I added dried rose petals sugar and a raspberries rose probiotic drink and of course rose water… If you want alcohol you can use sparkling Crémant rosé.. it’s excellent without it though..Yogurt works with the spicy foods from Middle East Africa and India ..Garnish with mint and sugar. I highly recommend a rose petal sugar rim.I bought the rose petal sugar at Surfas Culver City, CA location which if you are local to Los Angeles this could be great news. I will put a similar one in my store Blonde Behind the Bucket storefront if you aren’t though. AND No! No! no..This drink is not sweet and isn’t meant to be although it translate to mean« treaty »..Maybe that’s what I will do with my mangoes… Doogh 2.0 Ingredients 6 oz of plain nonfat yogurt (this Norr organic sure does taste full fat to me) 10 sprigs of mint (and one for the garnish so 11 sprigs of mint) 1 cup of ice 2 oz raspberry rose probiotic drink 2 Tablespoons of agave or honey one for the drink and one for the sugar rim Pinch of fine salt (think Maldon because it is a fine flakey sea salt and dissolves almost instantly) Dried edible rose petals to mix with sugar or premade rose petal sugar Method Place rose petal sugar on a saucer. Add honey or agave to the rim of a glass. Roll glass in the sugar mixture and set aside or refrigerate. The remainder sugar in saucer can be used to top the drink. Add all ingredients to a blending machine except sparkling water and one sprig of mint. The sparkling is the topper and that one extra mint sprig is for the garnish. Blend until see a crushed ice consistency. Kinda slushy like. Pour into rose petal sugar rimmed glass. Top with sparkling raspberries rose water. Top with rose petal sugar sugar and mint. Glass: bucket glass Garnish: dried rose petals sugar and mint sprig
Mango Mango Pistachio Mango mango pistachio Mango mango pistachio Mango Mango Pistachio 1 1/2 cups of frozen mangoes chunks 1 cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk 1 scoop of Agent Nateur holi (mane) collagean powder 5 tablespoons of hulled hemp seeds 2 tablespoons of ground pistachio and some for the rim 1 tablespoon of date syrup 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/8 teaspoon of ground ginger 1 tablespoon of avocado oil Method Add all ingredients to a blending machine and blend until smooth Rim glass with date syrup and coat with ground pistachio Garnish: ground pistachios powder Glass: bucket glass Where to buy the goods and stuff? Blonde Behind the Bucket Storefront of course! Please know I may receive commissions from edible purchases.
A Morning Fully Loaded Smoothie What we do when we are well affects us when we are not well. Most of the time. I think about adding many of the things my intuition nudges me to do. This morning, I enjoyed a water-based drink with frozen pineapple and raspberries. I included two types of collagen powders (Vital and Agent Nature holi (mane)), two types of protein powders, SAKARA metabolism mix (cocoa bean powder, coconut milk powder, coconut sugar, monk fruit, horsetail powder, laminaria kelp powder, black pepper, Gymnema Sylvester), and SAKARA protein and greens mix (spirulina, pumpkin seeds, pea protein, hemp protein, wheatgrass, barley grass, chlorella, coconut sugar, coconut milk powder, stevia leaf extract), matcha powder, three drops of liquid vitamin D/K2, 200+ manuka honey, chia seeds, cocoa nibs, and white sesame seeds. I made some great ones this week on the fly. This one is an obviously fully loaded smoothie to get me through a fully loaded morning I found worth sharing. The pineapple and raspberry flavors provide a sweet-tart zing, while the matcha powder adds just enough oomph. The seeds keep it unboring, and the honey adds perfect sweetness. Vitamin D; I certainly don’t get enough. Some ingredients break down also worth mention in case you’re not familiar. What do I mean? The difference between types honey or types of ingredients incorporated into smoothie powders. What is the difference between manuka honey and your regular honey? Welp, although I did attend a beekeeping class for a season several years ago and can test for mites in a hive, I still had to ask this question. Manuka honey is a type of honey that is produced in New Zealand by bees that pollinate the manuka bush. It is known for its unique flavor and potential health benefits, including antibacterial properties. Regular honey is produced by bees from the nectar of various flowers and plants. The main difference between manuka honey and regular honey is basically the source of the nectar and the specific properties attributed to manuka honey. It has high levels of methylglyoxal. Higher levels of methylglyoxal means higher levels of antibacterial properties. Manuka honey is also typically more expensive than regular honey due to its specialized production process and perceived health benefits. Then comes the protein powders. SAKARA Metabolism contains L-Glutamine which promotes healthy gut, horsetail eases bloating , kelp and Gymena Sylvestre is an Ayurvedic herb that supports in curbing cravings as well as cortisol levels. Says so on the packaging. SAKARA Protein & Greens detoxifies and energizes with its pumpkin hemp pea wheatgrass barley spirulina blend. This blend used to have sesame seeds which they have taken out but I add back in often. I recommend this. I wrote to them asking what was different. They told me so. Oh and least not the matcha powder. There are many types. Daily to the ceremonial. I only have ceremonial left in my inventory. Into the smoothie it went. Oh and what’s the difference in the matcha powders? Ceremonial grade matcha (the most vibrant in color) is the highest quality and most expensive type of matcha powder. It is made from the youngest tea leaves, which are shade-grown to enhance flavor and nutrient content. Daily, or culinary matcha is a lower quality (this doesn’t mean bad) and more affordable type of matcha powder. It is made from more mature tea leaves and may not be shade-grown, resulting in a slightly bitter taste and a less vibrant green color. It is more suitable for cooking and baking purposes, such as adding to smoothies, desserts, and savory dishes. Touching base on the collagen. Not all collagen powders are alike. Marine collagen powder is derived from marine sources like fish and is known for its bioavailability and skin benefits, while bovine collagen powder is sourced from cows and offers benefits for joint, bone, and gut health. The choice between marine and bovine collagen powders often depends on individual dietary preferences and health goals. I use marine collagen daily. Agent Nateur and Great Lakes Wellness are my favorites. A Morning Fully Loaded Smoothie Ingredients 1 scoop SAKARA Metabolism 1 scoop SAKARA Protein & Greens 1 scoop of Agent Nateur (Holi) mane collagean powder 1 heaping spoonful of 200+Manuka honey 1-2 teaspoon(s) of Hikari matcha powder 1/2 cup of Whole Foods 365 brand frozen pineapple chunks 1/2 cup Whole Foods 365 brand frozen raspberries 3 drops of Thorne liquid vitamin D/K2 1/2 cup of filtered water 1 teaspoon of each cocoa nibs, white sesame seeds, and chia seeds for the garnish. These babies antioxidant-filled goodness adding crunch and texture, keeping each sip interesting Method Add all ingredients to blending tumbler. Blend until smooth. Pour into a bucket glass and garnish with seeds and cocoa nibs. Glass: bucket glass Garnish: sesame seeds, Navitas cocoa nibs, chia seeds ***Please note that this works for me, and you should always check with your medical provider before incorporating any new ingredients, alcohol, or exercises into your wellness routine. Where to buy the goods? Bucket glasses, blending machines and protein powders and stuff? Blonde Behind the Bucket Storefront. *please know I may receive commissions from eligible purchases. Thank you thank you.