For some weeks now, given all the dumpstered fruits, we’ve had an up swing of smoothie making for certain people in the house. Just making things up as per the usual…
There was one particular score where we happened to pick up over 20 boxes of basil. Much of this went into the biggest tub of pesto we’ve ever made (yes it was delicious), some went into pizza, but about 10 boxes went into a half completed attempt at making lime-basil sorbet. A lack of limes to the basil ration left a highly concentrated basil sorbet with hints of lime. Not exactly a summer treat. Turns out the mixture is just the right thing to plop into recent smoothie experiments.
These are some varieties:
2 Pears + 1/2 c Aloe Juice (or water) + 1 Spoon Basil/Lime mixture + Ice
2 Bananas + 1/2 c Aloe Juice (water) + 2-3 Spoons Basil/Lime mixture + Ice
2 Pears + 1/2 Banana + Aloe Juice + 2 Spoons Basil/Lime + Ice
Pear + Banana + Cranberry Juice + Basil/Lime + Ice
We’ve also just decided that our blueberry and strawberry wines are done fermenting and ready to drink. The blueberry turned out a bit too sweet for our taste and the strawberry was a bit thin and boozy so we ended up combining a good deal of it to make a really delicious looking (and tasting) strawberry-blueberry wine. And because we had more strawberry we also ended up with about 5 liters of Strawberry-Basil/Lime Wine.
Drink up:)
