This is magic green juice—and it will change your life. It will make you skinnier, healthier, and glow from the inside out. Your back side and front side will be tighter. Your friends will idolize you and your enemies will want to be you. It may cause you to come into unexpected sums of money. You’ll achieve a sense of inner peace.
OK, I kid. But sometimes, doesn’t it seem like people marketing “healthy this” or “healthier that” make it seem like their product can do all those things? And there’s a part of us as humans—a tiny part of us—that wants to believe it. If I could just make myself XYZ, I’d be skinnier, healthier, and tighter. That elusive magic “answer” will solve all the difficulties to self-care and eating well. You can probably see where this is going. Unfortunately, there is no magic green health tonic that will cure all your worries and make healthy living easy. However, there are things you can do to make eating nutrient-filled, immunity boosting foods easier and more delicious.
Enter: the Glowing Green Apple Smoothie.
We don’t often post smoothies on this site, because—well, because it’s not really “cooking”, and cooking is what we love. Also, we’re bad at making smoothies. Yes, laugh away. For some reason, we could not for the life of us find a smoothie recipe we loved. It was either too bitter, too sweet, too thick, to thin. Following a recipe didn’t work, and throwing random smoothie-like ingredients into a blender didn’t work.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Our new cookbook, Pretty Simple Cooking, launches in just 2 weeks! So more than anything right now, we need to stay well—as in, not sick. No winter colds allowed this year! My first thought as I pondered this resolution was drink lots of smoothies. And I remembered our green apple smoothie from a few years ago. It’s tangy and tart, just sweet enough. But looking at it, I wanted to tweak a few things (of course). Since Medjool dates are a specialty ingredient, I decided to replace them with maple syrup and a handful of cashews to add extra protein and creaminess.
What resulted is our new favorite green smoothie. The tangy is balanced with sweet, and it has a loose but creamy texture that’s easily drinkable and a vivid, glowing green color. I can’t promise that it will make you skinnier or healthier or immune to all disease, but it tastes incredible and it is literally packed with nutrients.
You’re not so bad, Glowing Green Apple Smoothie.
Alex and I only need one smoothie recipe, and this is it. Green apple smoothie on repeat. (Oh, and Larson loves it too.)
Did you make this recipe?If you make this glowing green apple smoothie, we’d love to hear how it turned out. Leave a comment below or share a picture on Instagram and mention @acouplecooks.
This recipe is…Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free, gluten-free, and naturally sweet.
A few other smoothie recipes, while we’re at it:
Tart Cherry Granola Smoothie Bowls Strawberry Coconut Smoothies
A Couple Cooks - Recipes for Healthy & Whole Living
Let’s rewind to my trip to Costa Rica last month with my grandmother. It was the last day on our group trip, and we arrived at Sibu for our final dinner together. Sibu produces the best chocolate I’ve ever tasted, and they greeted us with rum-spiked, spiced hot chocolate.
I was literally a kid in a candy store all night as they presented a lesson in chocolate history (with wine and chocolate) and moved on to an incredible dinner.
After appetizers, they handed us chopped salads that looked fairly basic at first glance—I remember lettuce, tomato, avocado, feta and dressing. Then I took a bite and forgot about chocolate for a minute. That dressing!
I immediately tracked down the owner of the place to ask about it. He said it was a “honey-Dijon vinaigrette with yogurt base” and I vowed to recreate it at home. I started with the honey-mustard vinaigrette that I made for my cookbook, which I love as written.
I reduced the oil and added plain Greek yogurt until it tasted like the dressing at Sibu. This dressing is essentially a creamy honey-mustard dressing made with Greek yogurt instead of mayonnaise. It offers a more luxurious texture than any other honey-mustard dressing I’ve tried.
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