{"id":1994,"date":"2012-02-14T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T20:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realfoodhouston.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2018-10-25T13:12:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T18:12:01","slug":"morning-smoothie-oooom-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/2012\/02\/14\/morning-smoothie-oooom-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Smoothie–oooom Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Smoothie<\/a>Almost every morning my breakfast is a delicious, nutritious kefir smoothie.\u00a0 No other breakfast is as satisfying; I just feel better when I have my smoothie.\u00a0 The\u00a0smoothie I like best is made with raw goat milk kefir, cocoa powder, and banana. Here’s my recipe:<\/p>\n

1 cup raw goat milk kefir
\n1 small ripe organic banana (or half of a large one)
\n1 tablespoon raw organic cocoa powder
\n1 tablespoon organic flaxseeds (optional)
\n1 tablespoon coconut oil
\n2 egg yolks, from pastured chickens
\nStevia to taste<\/p>\n

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\"Smoothie<\/a>\"Finished<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Measure kefir into a beaker [I prefer to use a heavy-duty borosilicate glass beaker rather than the plastic beaker that came with my hand blender.] Add–in any order–banana, flaxseed, coconut oil, cocoa powder, egg yolks, and stevia. Using a hand blender, blend until well combined and the flaxseeds are broken up.\u00a0 [Note: if seed pieces in your smoothie bother you, just omit the flaxseeds. I love the chewy bits of seed in my smoothies, but not everyone likes to chew on their smoothie.]<\/p>\n

The smoothie could be made in a regular blender, but I like the ease of cleaning up using the hand blender and beaker. I also usually just\u00a0sip\u00a0my smoothie\u00a0out of the beaker–saves one more cleanup.<\/p>\n

Variations:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Instead of the banana and cocoa powder, add 1\/4 cup fresh or frozen organic blueberries and a dash of organic cinnamon. This is probably my second favorite. Instead of blueberries, I sometimes use mixed berries. We can get local blueberries in season, but I buy the other fruits fresh or frozen, organic, of course.<\/p>\n

I make my own kefir and have used cow milk kefir to make the smoothie; however,\u00a0although\u00a0cow milk kefir\u00a0is good,\u00a0I really prefer the extra zing of the goat milk kefir.\u00a0 But for\u00a0drinking plain, I\u00a0like fresh raw cow milk\u00a0better than goat milk.<\/p>\n

Sources\/brands:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

kefir<\/em>: local raw goat milk from Anala Goat Company<\/a>
\ncocoa powder<\/em>: Sunfood
\ncoconut oil<\/em>: Tropical Traditions Gold Label
\nflaxseed<\/em>: Bob’s Red Mill Organic
\nEgg yolks<\/em>:\u00a0my favorite local farmer’s rainbow eggs–beautiful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost every morning my breakfast is a delicious, nutritious kefir smoothie.\u00a0 No other breakfast is as satisfying; I just feel better when I have my smoothie.\u00a0 The\u00a0smoothie I like best is made with raw goat milk kefir, cocoa powder, and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,18,21,6,19,23],"tags":[115,35,61,114,40,36,24,32],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-fats","category-organic-food","category-pastured-eggs","category-raw-milk","category-real-food","category-recipes","tag-goat-milk","tag-healthy-fats-2","tag-healthy-foods","tag-kefir","tag-organic","tag-pastured-eggs-2","tag-raw-milk-2","tag-recipes-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Smoothie-ingredients.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70SEj-wa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6928,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/6928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}