Hello, lovely people. Welcome to jamieoliver.com Ah, this is a breakfast special. Yes it is.
We are doing smoothies. And yes, I know. You probably know how to make smoothies.
But I just wanted to go over some background of what makes it very easy for me.
You know, it's incredibly nutritious.
Oh, by the way, this is Buddy. Young Buddy. Say hello, Buddy.
Silence. This is what happens if you puts kids under pressure
So um, the other day I offer up Buddy a load of fruit and he was like: *spitting*
"Don't like it, don't like it." I went: "Do you want a smoothie?" and he went "yes" I took the same fruit
put in the liquidizer, winzed it up, bit of yohurt, put it back in front of him... gone that is the
spirit get in the good stuff into the little ones getting the good stuff into
the big ones and also making the damn fine drink, so the couple a little common
denominators for me, that work every single time. One thing that is incredibly
good for you no matter what is ginger. Okay ginger is a beautiful, beautiful thing
let me just finished this Kiwi,
if you look at the ginger here, don't know if you're interested buddy, right but instead of peeling it you can just
scrape it away with a spoon and it comes off really really easy like that
Do you want to have a smell?
ginger is a very good friend.
The other thing is, is like you know when you have fruit in the house and we
have a lot of fruit in our house it's always kind of.. there's always something in
the turn like our little good friends here mister 'banana' and we all know that
tomorrow these bananas will be on the turn, getting a bit moldy and horrible. So whenever whenever any
fruit get to that point I have these brilliant zip-lock bags and we are
just building up combinations now another common denominator of banana always have a
banana in a batch of smoothie sweetness and a creaminess and the deliciousness
that's really generically brilliant and then you can make any combo that you
like now I like to have the fruit kept in the freezer and I like to just bag-up
little kind of four person portion batches so that any morning I come down I don't think about it I just had a
bit ginger and Bobs your uncle, so let's make a nice little raspberry, these are all
frozen raspberries, frozen bananas we're gonna put in a little knob of ginger, a little bit of honey just
a little bit if you want to put some porridge oats, some chia seeds in, absolutely
can; sunflower seeds are good, almonds, good, you get those in, and of course a little
splash of Yogurt, aint half bad either
and then we can have a little "Wazy-wazy Woo-Woo", if you wanna let it down,
If it's frozen fruit, a little milk.
- You like smoothie buddy? - No
- You like Smoothie? - Yes!
Done - have a little taste,
If you wanna add anymore acid, put some lime juice in and brighten it up, actually the raspberry is really good,
so this is the first one, beautiful, smoothie of raspberries,
and right another round up just for a spirit going, nice and thick,
nice and cold, of course you could use any fruit you want.
Getting the nuts in there is really good, getting some dairy in there, It's really, really good.
The next one, I'm gonna do, again there's banana in there,
I got some beautiful blueberries
Um. When there is blackberries
Um, at the end of summer.
You pick a lot, freeze 'em.
Having these bags
like racked up on a whole shelve.
It's just brilliant.
It saves you all the effort in the world, umm
And you can mix up the nuts.
Don't go anything heavy, like a Walnut
Uh, or Hazelnut. Just kinda stick on the Almonds, pine nuts
Um, Sunflower seeds, stuff like that.
A little milk,
and a little honey.
That's it, the basic principle
The things I really want to get across here, is that frozen fruit gives you that refreshment
and the thickness, which is really, really good.
Also, bag 'em up, and use up any sort of fruit in return
It's just, You know, It's getting the rid of waste
It's keeping Your food bowl really lush all the time. knowing that you're not going to wast any.
And of course, getting a ginger in there, and the banana
guaranteed, great texture every single time - It's perfect
I wanna wrap this one out.
And like -
Have a litte taste..
- And like, if it feels a little bit flat, and like a bit of nothing
a lime juice or a little apple juice, really brightens it up.
So, just like any sauce, or any pasta sauce, you keep checking for seasoning
You're kinda doing that with the smoothie
-That nice buddy?
-Yeah?
Another a great little tip:
If you haven't got any frozen fruit
and by the way, You can buy frozen fruit in the supermarkets
And it's pretty damn good value.
Use just some regular ice, and some frozen fruit.
and You get that same a lovely thick refreshing
Blueberry, look at the colors
The colors, so - so gorgeous
It's like nature's natural pastel color - so damn good!
So there you guys, boys and girls,
I'm sure, now you know how do smoothies
But with the frozen bags - wicked.
Ginger in everyone. Good for You.
You know, using it, to get rid any leftover fruit.