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Cheers for Cherries!

This is a "scrum-diddly-umptious" recipe for carb types. You can have this as your main meal after having a nice glass of fresh vegetable juice, as it supplies protein and fat needs for one carb- type meal.

Keep in mind that you can use any type of fruit that you like that's appropriate for your nutritional type.

The cherries are slightly defrosted, nice and cold, making the smoothie creamy and refreshing. The color is gorgeous, the taste sublime.

Best of all, it's easy ... once you know the secret:

Kitchen supplies:

  • Immersion blender
  • Large glass measuring cup
  • Tall glass for serving

Ingredients:

  • 4 ounces of raw milk
  • 1 teaspoon raw, organic honey
  • ½ cup dark, sweet, slightly-defrosted cherries (unsweetened)

Preparation:

  1. Combine milk, cherries and honey in glass measuring cup.
  2. Whiz up with immersion blender, starting on low setting.
  3. Use apron if desired to protect clothing from cherry stains.
  4. Pour into glass and serve.

So fantastic, it makes me wish I was a carb type!





 
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Posted On Jun 15, 2007
The weather has become terribly hot here suddenly and this is a fantastic, seasonally-appropriate drink.  It reminds me I should stop at the fruit stand and see what's there.  We picked our cherry tree clean two weeks ago.  The birds helped us.

What I do to reduce the lactose levels in the milk is culture my raw milk with kefir grains.  (How to make homemade dairy kefir.)  Fermenting the milk adds even more beneficial bacteria to the raw milk (or pasteurized if that's what you're using), B vitamins, and it reduces the milk sugar for people like me who need that. 


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Posted On Jun 15, 2007
And freeze your own!  I just posted some of my mom's suggestions to my site and they include suggestions on freezing fruit:

• Bananas: peel and slice; place slices in a single layer on a cookie sheet; freeze
• Peaches, apricots, and similar fruit: wash, peel, slice; place slices in a single layer on a cookie sheet; freeze
• Berries: wash; drain; place berries in a single layer on a cookie sheet; freeze
• Persimmon: use the kind that gets soft and squishy. That’s how you want them: dead ripe! Wash well; cut off green cap; puree in food processor; freeze in ice cube trays

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Posted On Jun 16, 2007
I wish the mercola website offered some version of their own Pemmican. The only pemmican i have found comes from grassland beef...

Pemmican seems like the perfect snack that Mercola would recommend... its from grassfed animals... low carb... very filling. It is what the settlers used as they explored the frontier.

It is made from either tallow, or marrow... and different but lean cuts of meat which are dried (like jerky) then mixed with the tallow and dried cherries.

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Posted On Jun 15, 2007
Stone fruits, like CHERRIES, Peaches, Apricots, etc. are suppose to be in wonderful and ripe supply this summer...therefore Luci's recipe suggestion is again ON TARGET! 

Many thanks, Oh, High Chef of the Serene Kitchen!

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Posted On Jun 16, 2007
I have a very large bone tumor which is benign, but can be painful. I would like to have it removed, but am waiting for a variety of reasons.  It's a very sensitive compass that fingers inflammation triggers so I've strangely learned a lot from this unwelcome guest.  There are days I have intense pain and many days I don't.  I learned quickly to associate which things cause inflammation and which reduced it leading to pain free days.  I first noticed one summer while eating fresh cherries that I went pain free completely.  When cherry season was over, I tried cherry juice, dried cherries, etc.  They did not work at all.  Which led me to learn that these anti-inflammatory flavenoids are water soluble.  I've read how dried cherries or cherry juice  helped others, but did not do so for me.  Becoming dehydrated also triggers inflammation for me..  I don't need to drink tons of water, not even the lauded 6-8 glasses, but if I drink at least a couple glasses a day, it helps ward off the inflammation that pains the tissue around the tumor.  Gatorade made inflammation terrible, but I learned anything with supplemental potassium triggered some of the most wrenching pain.  Something I would have never otherwise noticed without my strange friend.  Nothing has beat fresh cherries in reducing inflammation.  I'm still learning though.  I plan to pay close attention until I have this thing removed. 

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Posted On Jun 15, 2007
Due to an allergy I am not able to drink milk, but thought I would share a similiar cherry smoothie for those in the same situation or unable to get raw milk.

1/2 cup cherries
1C almond milk
4T almond butter (or other nut butter)
1 heaping scoop of Living Fuel (the berry flavored one)

Add to a blender and puree!

It's absolutely delicious. I live in New England and am not able to get organic, locally grown cherries so I use the frozen Cascadian Farms cherries and they're very good in this.

I enjoy this smoothie for breakfast and it keeps me powered for many hours.

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Posted On Jun 16, 2007
I have very sharp blades on my old fasioned blender so I make my own almond milk from raw almonds and magnetized water.  Add som coconut and or coconut oil to make it richer.  I freeze fruit al summer and fall to make smooties in the winter.  Laid flat in zipper bags so that they can be broken up and added to the blender.  Now that summer is here I have started my green smooties. 1/2 avacado with the nut milk greans from the garden. New Zealand spinich vine produces untill it freazes in the winter.  [I have to get it moved indores this year.]
During cold weater I somtimes crave rosted nut butters but during the summer raw is the way to go.

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