Fresh Essentials: Fruit Smoothies And Power Shakes

By Ruth Tal and Jennifer Houston

Longtime patrons of Fresh restaurant know what to expect: scrumptious meatless meals made from all-natural, wholesome ingredients, full of exotic flavours and energy-boosting nutrients designed to make them feel incredible. In the Fresh Essentials series, founder Ruth Tal and co-owner and head chef Jennifer Houston bring you contemporary vegetarian and vegan recipes perfect for every occasion. Loaded with nutritious recipes as well as time-saving tips , Fresh Essentials: Fruit Smoothies and Power Shakes contains fifteen recipes that will help you serve up delicious smoothies and shakes including the Rise and Shine Smoothie, the comforting Hot Apple Pie Smoothie, the Aphrodisiac Power Shake and many more. Fresh Essentials: Fruit Smoothies and Power Shakes is the ideal guide to easy and delicious smoothies and shakes from one of Toronto’s top vegetarian restaurants.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Dec 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781443431217

Ruth Tal

In 1990, after travelling the world extensively for seven years, RUTH TAL returned to Toronto intending to attend university. Instead, after being inspired by the growing trend of juice bars and healthy eating, Ruth created Juice for Life. She dreamed of opening a vegetarian food and juice bar where people would feel accepted and satisfied no matter what their lifestyle or eating preferences. Now, over twenty years later, Juice for Life has evolved into Fresh. With four Toronto Fresh locations well established, Ruth is now able to take the Fresh concept far and wide. In addition to co-owning Fresh with her two business partners, she now helps others around the world achieve their own dreams of feeding local hungry patrons looking for veggie options, consulting with them and drawing on her two decades of experience in the natural food, juice and vegan/vegetarian restaurant industry.

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FRESH ESSENTIALS

Fruit Smoothies and Power Shakes

Jennifer Houston and Ruth Tal

HarperCollins e-books

CONTENTS

About Juicing

About Smoothies and Shakes

Almond Java Espresso Shake

Aphrodisiac Power Shake

Avocado Almond Cacao

Avocado Banana Spinach

Avocado Mango Ginger

Cherry Blossom

Chi-Spa

Chocolate Monkey

Date Almond Power Shake

Diesel

Empress Smoothie

Fresh Mojito

Hot Apple Pie Smoothie

Liquid Yoga Power Shake

Love Your Peaches

Miles Davis

Mocha Mint Espresso Shake

Modern Vampire

Negril Beach Smoothie

Omega Power Shake

Oompa Loompa

Ripped Power Shake

Rise and Shine Smoothie

Shamrock

Sunsplash Smoothie

The Giving Tree

White Tiger

Wild Bull

Yellow Brick Road

ZenMatcha Power Shake

Copyright

About the Publisher

About Juicing

Getting Juiced

Imagine getting intoxicated on fresh juice, feeling great and never having a hangover again. Imagine drinking a stream of super power shakes, energy and immune elixirs, exotic fruit smoothies and vegetable cocktails that leave you glowing, very much alive and kicking.

Luscious juice gives you the opportunity to enhance your diet, health and present lifestyle with the inclusion of fresh juices, superfood supplements, protein powders and herbal tinctures. One step further and these juices can infiltrate your life to the exclusion of other vices you may have.

Fresh fruit and vegetable juices have the power of nature’s healing properties and nutritional building blocks to bring you closer to better health and well-being than you’ve ever been before. They are a rich, concentrated source of nutrients and give an instant boost of vital energy. The vitamins, minerals and enzymes present in live juices are absorbed much more quickly, easily and efficiently than whole foods that can take hours to digest. The quick and easy assimilation of fresh juices is due to the presence of live enzymes in raw fruits and vegetables. These enzymes are destroyed when fruits and vegetables are cooked. In today’s busy world, when it seems there’s never enough time to eat properly, juicing can ensure that your body gets the nourishment it needs to stay on top—fast. This is especially important for your immune system, which is constantly fending off assaults from bacteria, viruses, environmental toxins and stress.

You can use Luscious Juice as your inspiration and reference guide. Allow yourself to improvise and deviate from the ingredients, tailoring our juices to suit your needs. Let your senses lead you to your dream juice, and then let your body guide you to a new level of well-being.

The Eight Benefits of Juicing

Hydration

Our cells consist mostly of water, which is essential to their proper functioning. That’s why our bodies require at least eight glasses of water