Orange-Banana Smoothie with Strawberries

Today is all about my little Jane's favourite.  We drink juice every morning and i prepared them before i leave for work.  Preserving the freshness and nutrient is very important (... but that's a different topic at all and we will see if I can spend some time share with you about it tomorrow).  In fact, i did quite a fair bit of research before I decide on the method to prepare fresh juice and store them (properly) for consumption a few hours later.

Yesterday (yes, it was already yesterday... it is now 12:56am) we made orange-banana smoothie with strawberries.  It's my little Jane's favourite.  Here's our recipe:


orange-banana smoothie with strawberries
Serves 4

1 ripe banana (or 2 if you like it thicker)
4 to 6 Strawberries
5 Oranges
100ml filtered water
some ice cubes

Juice the orange into a pitcher.  Peel the banana and throw into the OJ together with the other ingredients.  Use a stick blender and give it a good blend.


The reason why I am adding some water is because the banana tend to make the drinks very sweet and my girl doesn't like it.  It also make it less viscous.  Serve it cold, it makes a very refreshing drinks.  I thinks a little bit of mint will be nice... but have not tried.

If you have left over, you can also freeze it in Popsicle mould and it also makes a very good all natural Popsicle.

Good cooking shows we love

oh well... 10 mths ... that's how long I have not updated this blog and today i pull myself to post something as some of my "fans" (you know who you are)... are gumbling about not hearing from me and the interesting food we are making.

Lets start our first update with 2 cooking show which l like and they are showing back to back late night on Asian Food Channel (AFC).  The 2 shows are Good Chef Bad Chef and {Fresh with Anna Olsen}.  Both are very interesting because the food are made-able at home. 



Hey... join me to watch the show.

... and i have an idea for update tomorrow... i will showcase you the juices we make everyday.  

Dong Dong Chiang! We are back... after being really quiet AGAIN.

... standard answer... BUSY MAH.... well, those are just excuses.  The real reasons are actually firstly, I've been awfully lazy recently, and secondly, I've been using iPad more regularly than laptop and i'm still yet to discover a good way to blog using iPad.  I was wondering how to upload the photos.

Ah well... I've received good comments on my Chinese New Year reunion lunch menu which i have posted on Facebook.   My sister in law and friends even asked for recipe... paiseh... paiseh.  :P

As this year our flight back to Kuching is in the late afternoon, and has been my in law's family tradition to have reunion lunch instead of dinner, so obviously we missed the most important meal of the year.  We decided to have a small scale reunion lunch for just the 3 of us.  The menu is not too complicated and much taught was put into it as i wanted to create a meal that even my Lil Jane will love, and it is also suitable for adults.  So, 6 dishes was planned and cooked.

It was a good meal.  All dishes are made from scratch.  Nothing is ready made from supermarket freezer.  We enjoy the meal.  The best part is, there is no wastage of material.  All material were used and nothing being thrown away.  All food finished too.  Good.

In our next posts, I'll try to recall and document the recipe for a few of the dishes.  do come back to visit our blog if you are interested.