Green Smoothie of the Day

The Smoothie of the day today is just a quick simple smoothie with frozen organic bananas, frozen organic strawberries (locally picked at The Berry Patch) frozen grapes and fresh spinach from my local Farmers Co op from Raccoon Farms here in Iowa. You cant get any fresher than this beautiful spinach and the taste is superb !!!

Fresh Hot Apple Cider

Today was the day I finally took the apples and made Apple Cider. It turned out better than I thought it would. We had many cooking apples left over so instead of making those delicious apple recipes that I defiantly don't need to eat I decided to get out my Green Star Juicer and make Fresh Apple Cider. So I enlisted my husband to help as I cut up the apples he pushed them through the Green Star and we had beautiful fresh apple juice. I put a few cups of the juice and heated it on the stove with 2 cinnamon sticks, some cloves and some allspice. Instead of adding maple syrup or brown sugar I added a small amount of amber agave for the sweetener. I put a small amount of nutmeg (should have used fresh) in the cup and it was the most wonderful apple cider I have ever tasted. It was a wondrous hot creamy decedent drink of love.