Eating out

Yay! We got some new furniture for our deck at Crate n Barrel,Marc built our beautiful deck all by himself (Love a man that can create things with his hands) All we need are some loungers and a few more flowers and we will have our own little paradise ...Happy days :)    I think a trip to the Natural Gardener is in order

Green smoothies

Since moving to Austin I have met some amazing people. One of those people is my friend Clara, she is the type of person who makes you feel instantly better being in her company, she radiates so much positivity and good energy. I would happily move in with her except she has her own family to look after and I am kind of a bit big and old! Clara eats only raw food and has done for 4 years now ,she looks amazing, and is in the best shape ever. She is also my spin instructor and is over 50 ( and does not look it ) She is BEAUTIFUL inside and out.Well Clara got me hooked on the whole green smoothie trend .

So green smoothies are fruits and vegetables blended together. The cool thing about this is the taste of the fruit usually over powers the taste of the veggies. My kids hate anything green, be it salad,Kale,broccoli but with green smoothies I can get them to eat RAW veggies and they love it because they think they are getting a big delicious fruit smoothie and they do not see any yucky green leaves. So Momma can relax knowing they have some goodness in their bodies.

Here is one of their favourites   2 bananas,1 orange ,large cup of frozen blueberries and 3 leaves of Kale. You can add some water to make it more liquid and a squirt of agave or honey ( we prefer agave ) to sweeten. Usually the fruit makes it sweet enough. I have a powerful vitamix blender which would blend wood chips ,seriously it is the Daddy of all blenders but you can use a regular blender if you like

I like to put the smoothies in jam jars and I add a cocktail umbrella because the kids always ask for them! I have several different recipes but you can really blend and experiment with what you like.Delicious ,Thank you Clara I am greatly indebted.

Rock buns

So in my last post I pretty much stated how great I think my Dad is ,well he would be nothing if it were not for the woman in his life my Mammy.So not to leave you out Mam today I made some of your tasty rock buns.It would take me a book to write about how great she is,I will leave that for another blog.The scones/rock buns were delicious eaten with butter by Noah and with jam by me,Marc and Noah.

Out of 7 kids (I was the eldest ) I loved all of my Mams cooking her beef stews,shepherds pie ,bread and butter pudding,rice pudding and she makes the best cup of Irish tea I know,love you Mam xx

Menu for the Month

So I have just spent the last hour or so drawing up a months worth of recipes .I drive my husband CRAZY with the "you are what you eat " story but I wholly believe it to be true .I wish I could become vegan but their are animal products in bloomin everything ! Anyway I got the Ok to omit cow and pig from our diets .He will just eat these to his hearts content with his work buddies .It is going to be hard with my 2 sons who adore HAM .

Bought Kris Carr's book "Crazy sexy diet " it is choc full of excellent advice .Her story is amazing and I have been a huge fan of hers for a few years now .Her Vlogs are so inspiring to me .Just listening to her puts me in a good mood .Go check her out .