Books, Books And More Books Part 28

And I finished flipping through the pages of this book ~ The Big Book of Juices & Smoothies. It was on sale and the cover looked too delicious to resist.

I did read the first few pages on ingredients and the techniques to puree and juice up stuff. I went over the recipes (is it called a recipe anyway when all you do is put an array of different stuff into the blender / processor / juicer?) and selected a few to try.

So for the past few days we've had one smoothie / fruit juice after another. Let's see now - we had watermelon with lychees (yang biasa anak2 order di kedai. I had to show them we can make that stuff at home), mangoes with rock melon. We had pears with pineapple. Orange with watermelon. Apples with mangoes. Carrot, tomatoes with celery (this turned out better than I thought it would). And mango lassi - which we had for breakfast.

There are unlikely recipes also in the book that I would never try. Like blended raw sweet potatoes (I suppose my mum would faint). Or spinach and beetroot smoothie (which sounds rather dubious to me).

It was rather interesting experimenting the different concoctions. And I found out that it was pretty easy to come up with a decent smoothie or lassi.


Unfortunately on a less happier note, I had to admit that I gave up on a classic book I was reading. Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen. With no disrespect intended to the late author, I find the book too slow, with not enough substance or excitement (call it what you like) to keep me glued to the pages. But written in the late 1700s I suppose there is not much to tell about the ladies of that era except begetting a suitable suitor.

So I bid the book adieu and we parted separate ways, much as I dislike not finishing anything I have started to read. I will do Dickens next, I think, in the conquest of understanding the classics.

Currently I am still hanging on to Dr M's memoir and the new book by Prof Dr Muhd Kamil. As usual I take the prof's book slow, savoring the words written dan menyelami intipati yang tersurat & tersirat.

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