{"id":4366,"date":"2013-02-20T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realfoodhouston.com\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2018-10-25T12:37:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:37:58","slug":"strawberry-kefir-smoothie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/2013\/02\/20\/strawberry-kefir-smoothie\/","title":{"rendered":"Strawberry Kefir Smoothie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Strawberry<\/a>As you probably have noticed by now, I love my morning smoothies!\u00a0 Although my usual smoothie is a Banana Cocoa Smoothie<\/a>, I like to try new flavors.\u00a0 I don’t often find really ripe, organic strawberries, but I was lucky last week and found some, so I thought I would try some in my morning smoothie.\u00a0 Did you know that strawberries shouldn’t be crunchy or white in the center?\u00a0\u00a0 That’s right, a really ripe strawberry–heavenly sweet–should have an inviting smell and there shouldn’t be a white center or a white shoulder around the stem.\u00a0 Here’s how I made my strawberry smoothie with these beautiful ripe strawberries (there’s some in the photo):<\/p>\n

Strawberry Smoothie<\/strong><\/p>\n

2\/3 cup homemade raw cow milk kefir (would be good with goat milk kefir too)
\n2\/3 cup sliced ripe strawberries, preferably organic
\n1 tablespoon coconut oil (I use Tropical Traditions gold label)
\n1 egg yolk, from pastured chickens
\nStevia to taste<\/p>\n

Put all ingredients in a blender. (I use a glass beaker and a hand-held, immersion blender but any blender will work.)\u00a0 Blend until thoroughly combined.\u00a0 Nutritious and delicious!\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n

To make this smoothie truly delicious, you must have really ripe strawberries.\u00a0 Most commercial strawberries are picked when only partially ripened to reduce damage during shipping and increase shelf life.\u00a0 Ripe strawberries are easily bruised and don’t last long.\u00a0 Unripe strawberries will have white around the stem and, when sliced, will be white in the center.\u00a0 They don’t have nearly as much flavor as ripe ones, and they don’t have that wonderful strawberry smell either. \u00a0The less white, the more ripe the strawberry.\u00a0 If you can find locally grown, ripe strawberries, they would be the best.\u00a0 Sometimes you can find local farms that let you pick your own.\u00a0 We may have some local strawberries here in Houston soon.<\/p>\n

You might also be interested in these other smoothie recipes:<\/em><\/p>\n

Banana Cocoa Smoothie<\/a>
\nPersimmon Kefir Smoothie<\/a>
\nMango Coconut Kefir Smoothie<\/a><\/p>\n

This post is shared on Fat Tuesday<\/a> and Real Food Wednesday<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you probably have noticed by now, I love my morning smoothies!\u00a0 Although my usual smoothie is a Banana Cocoa Smoothie, I like to try new flavors.\u00a0 I don’t often find really ripe, organic strawberries, but I was lucky last …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4367,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[268,13,172,18,21,6,19,23],"tags":[61,174,40,36,24,127,32],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dairy","category-healthy-fats","category-nutrition","category-organic-food","category-pastured-eggs","category-raw-milk","category-real-food","category-recipes","tag-healthy-foods","tag-nutrition-2","tag-organic","tag-pastured-eggs-2","tag-raw-milk-2","tag-real-food-2","tag-recipes-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Strawberry-smoothie.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70SEj-18q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions\/6905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}