Piel de Sapo Melon Monomeal

Piel de Sapo Melon Monomeal 

Ingredients:

(Serves 1-2) 

1 large piel de sapo melon 

Choosing the best melon can make your meal extra enjoyable. Look for a melon with a large bottom circle, this is where the flower was attached. The larger the circle the longer it has been on the stem and the sweeter it will be. You want to wait until the melon is really ripe as that's when the flesh will scoop out soft and easily. It will be super juicy and satisfying. To tell whether it is ripe, you want to look for soft ends, a richer coloured skin and a sweet scent. 

Piel de Sapo Melon Monomeal 

Donut Peaches!

Donut Peaches!

Ingredients:

(Serves 1)

6 donut peaches

Make sure they are perfectly ripe before eating. Peaches are climacteric fruit which means they have a starch reserve that turns into sugars as they ripen. They will be more juicy, sweet and much tastier.  You want them to be soft to the touch, the more delicate the better. Literally just grab and go, natures perfect fast food :) 

Donut Peaches 

Grape Citrus Sorbet

Ingredients:

(Serves 1)

500g red grapes

1 lemon juice 

Remove the stalks from the grapes and freeze. Once frozen place in a blender with 2-3 cups of water and the lemon juice. Blits together, pour into a cute bowl and enjoy! Perfect summer breakfast :) 

Kiwis

Ingredients:

(Serves 1)

8 medium kiwis*

Rinse, slice in half and scoop out with a teaspoon. You can even eat the skins if you fancy. Delicious monomeal. 

* make sure they are really soft and when they're cut they look slightly transparent. 

Banana Cereal Bowl

Ingredients:

(Serves 1)

6 soft spotty bananas 

1.5 cups rice milk/ water 

2 tbsp maple syrup 

Sprinkle of cinnamon 

Pulse blend 4 bananas with the rice milk/water. Chop up the other 2 bananas into a bowl and pour the banana milk over the top. Swirl in the maple syrup and sprinkle with cinnamon. Yum! 

Monomeal of Dates

Ingredients:

(Serves 1)

20 gooey medjool dates found at my local grocery shop 

Just pit and enjoy :) but make sure you drink lots of water before and after to keep hydrated and keep your teeth nice and clean. I usually have 1 litre of filtered water about 10 minutes before each meal, and about 1/4 litre after if needed. Sweet and Simple. 

Beat the Winter Snivels Juice

Ingredients: 

(Serves 1 or 2) 

15 large navel oranges (in season this winter)

Use an electric citrus squeezer or just a hand squeezer. Chop oranges in half and squeeze out all the juice into a large jug (It should make about 1.5 litres). Pour into a pretty glass and enjoy its awesomeness! Perfect for preventing the winter snivels. 

Sunshine Sharon Smoothie

Ingredients:

(Serves 1)

4 plump squishy slightly transparent sharon fruit (persimmons) *

4 large ice cubes 

100 ml water

In a blender add the Sharon fruit (green tops removed), ice and water and blend on high until well combined. 

Top with fresh mint, wonderful! 

*found very cheaply at my local market (24 fruits for £1! Crazy deal) 

Warming or Refreshing

Ingredients:

15 Medjool dates pitted *

Water

Rich Smoothie:

Add 500ml water and the dates to a high speed blender, allow to soak for 10 minutes, blend on high for 30 second intervals for about 3 minutes until no more floaty pieces are seen. 

Frothy Drink:

Add 750ml water, 4 large ice cubes and dates to a high speed blender, allow to soak for 10 minutes, blend on high for 30 second intervals for about 4 minutes until no more floaty pieces are seen. 

Both delicious, it depends what mood your in, thick and warming or cool and refreshing :) 

* Medjool dates can be ordered online or bought from some green grocers. 

Hint: recipe makes more than shown in the photos so feel free to top up your glass.

Persimmon Platter

Ingredients:

(Serves 1 or 2) 

14 beautifully ripe plump squishy persimmons (Sharon fruit) picked up from my local market for only £2! 

Just dig in to them one by one or remove the leaves and blend into a rich delish smoothie. 

Lunch Box - Oranges and Blackberries

Ingredients:

(Serves 1)

6 medium oranges

14 blackberries 

Chop up the oranges into eights add to your container and scatter with blackberries (mine were frozen - they defrosted by lunch time). I made mine in the morning ready for lunch time. 

Frothy Medjool Cream Dream

Ingredients:

(Serves 1)

8 Medjool dates 

500 ml water

Fill blender with water, pit dates and add, then blend on full power until well combined and frothy. Warning: seriously frothy and divine! 

Spectacular Nectarines!

Ingredients:

(Serves 1) 

8 perfectly squishy and ripe nectarines 

I bought 25 of these when they were hard from my local green grocers for £6. I left them 3 days and bam! Juicy and delicious. Eating these took me to sweet, juicy, scrumptious heaven :) 

Banana Milk

Ingredients:

(Serves 1)

 

5-10 ripe bananas 

1 litre water

Peel bananas and add to blender with the water. Pulse until combined. Add ice if desired. Delicious!

Datorade!

Ingredients:

10-30 dates or 10 medjool dates 

Pitt and add to blender with 500 ml - 1 litre water. Blend on full until frothy. Add an ice cube. 

Papaya

Ingredients: 

(Serves 1)

Papaya (30 cm long) *

Chop in half, scoop out seeds and dig in with a spoon. Make sure it is ripe - should be a little squishy on the ends and be turning yellow. 

*If they're from Mallorca or any hot country then they will be 30cm long +, however if you are in the UK then expect 10cm ones therefore eat 2 or 3 :) 

Charantais Melon

Ingredients: 

(Serves1)

1 whole large charantais melon (or 2 small)

Tip: only eat melon on its own and make sure it's on an empty stomach or you may experience some bloating. Also make sure you haven't eaten a heavy meal the night before for best digestion. This is due to it being a fast digesting food which may run into undigested food and cause a traffic jam. :) 

Watermelon Breakfast

Ingredients:

(Serves 2) 

1 whole medium watermelon 

Slice in half and dig in with a large spoon.

(Separate seeds if preferred) 

Tip: only eat watermelon on its own and make sure it's on an empty stomach or you may experience some bloating. Also make sure you haven't eaten a heavy meal the night before for best digestion. This is due to it being a fast digesting food which may run into undigested food and cause a traffic jam. :) 

Purple Grape Heaven

Ingredients:

(Serves 1)

500g Huge seeded purple grapes 

1/2 empty melon skin 

Eat out your melon for breakfast and save the skin. At lunch time get your melon skin bowl and grapes. To remove the seeds hold a grape upright then using your thumbs ease the grape in half. Then pick each seed out the add the grape to your melon bowl. Once your melon if full to the brim grap a folk and dig in :)