Orange Banana Smoothies

According to Wikipedia, smoothies is a blended, chilled, sometimes sweetened beverage made from fresh fruit or vegetables. In addition to fruit, many smoothies include crushed ice, frozen fruit, honey or yogurt, although some smoothies are 100% fruit. Fruit smoothies is easy to make, all you need to do was to cut the fruits into small pieces, combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend it for a minute or two till all ingredients are well mixed. You can even put milk, soy milk or yogurt to get the milkshake like consistency. It's so simple and yet very healthy and not to mentioned they can be pretty fullfilling too. Good to have as breakfast or even treat it like 'snacks' when we were hungry. (very healthy and yet lesser calories, way better than munching into chips) :)

For this smoothies, I had used 3 bananas, 1 orange, 1 carrot, 2 sticks of celery, 1 plain yogurt and few cubes of ice. A nice drinks to have while enjoying a book or movie in the comfort of our own home.

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Fruit Rojak

There's a few first in this post. This is my first time making Rojak; first time using our blender; first time cutting up a pineapple (and it is a tedious job - for me of course) and the most importantly the day that I made this Rojak was our First Year Wedding Anniversary. Sure lot's of firsts. We had this for our breakfast on our anniversary. Weird combination for breakfast but what the heck rite. As long as both of us enjoy it.

I am using the Rojak sauce that we had bought in our Penang trip. I had roasted the peanuts earlier and blend it to ground peanuts using the blender. Basically we can put any types of fruits that we like and make it into Fruit Rojak. I have yam bean (sengkuang), pineapples, cucumber, mangoes and water apples. Cut the fruits, drizzled them with the sauce and ground peanuts and tossed them all together. Our Rojak is ready to be served.

Before tossing them with the sauce.

I had put a lot of ground peanuts in the Rojak coz I love peanuts! Yumz..

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