Michelle Koen » shake http://michellekoen.com Figure athlete, foodie and creative person Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:20:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Some like it hot: Devil’s food shake http://michellekoen.com/some-like-it-hot-devils-food-shake/ http://michellekoen.com/some-like-it-hot-devils-food-shake/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:51:14 +0000 Michelle http://michellekoen.com/?p=171 There’s something daring about the idea of chill and chocolate which excites the brain. Walking past Bean Bar on the way to the gym they have a poster which says “chilli hot chocolate, do you dare?”. I like a challenge. When someone says ‘you can’t eat xxx, can you?”, the stubborn girl in me fires up. It was the same with this poster, except it triggered a great supershake idea.

Devil’s Food Shake

  • 1 cup chocolate tea
  • 1 teaspoon cocoa powder
  • 1 scoop chocolate protien powder (ladybird rice for me)
  • 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder (makes it creamy)
  • 1 teaspoon maca powder
  • 1 1/2 cup chopped beetroot leaves
  • 2 small plums
  • a dash of cayenne pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon chilli powder

Make the tea and whisk in the cocoa. Allow to cool slightly so the protein powder doesn’t clump and blend with remaining ingredients.

]]> http://michellekoen.com/some-like-it-hot-devils-food-shake/feed/ 2 Choc-mint super imunity shake http://michellekoen.com/choc-mint-super-imunity-shake/ http://michellekoen.com/choc-mint-super-imunity-shake/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:45:59 +0000 Michelle http://michellekoen.com/?p=59 I’m still in the depths of my ‘recovery week’ but have a whole lot to write about. However, the lovely Charlotte, prompted a recipe with this comment.

Like Charlotte, I’ve been using Hemp Protien as a non-workout protein powder.Hemp has a good balance of omega-3′s to omega-6′s, is high in insoluable fibre and has an almost complete amino profile. Another reason you might want to look at hemp is if you’re trying to reduce the amount of bloating caused by dairy based protein powders.

I’m not much of a shake person, much prefering whole foods as I find shakes don’t really fill me up. This is an exception. Must be all that fibre in the hemp! In addition to the hemp protein I’ve used rice protein. Again, this is a easily digestable plant protein and a great choice for those with problems digesting dairy.

To round out the list of super ingredients I’ve used Vital Greens. I swear this stuff has kept things ‘moving’ ever since I started on it; and peppermint and licorice root tea. Peppermint and licorice are both great for digestion. Licorice root is also fantastic for colds and respitory problems and is a natural sweetner. It’s actually used by Ladybird to sweeten the rice protein I used.

Ingredients.

  • 1/2 scoop hemp protein
  • 1/2 scoop chocolate flavour rice protein
  • 1/2 scoop vital greens
  • 1-2 cups of strong peppermint and licorice tea cooled to room temperature.

Shake, shake shake.

A note on the tea: I originally tasted peppermint and licorice tea when I was having my hair done at an Aveda salon. You can buy the Aveda tea online. However, I make my own. I buy organic loose leaf peppermint tea and mix it with licorice root tea I buy from Perfect Cup in the Central Markets. The ratio is about 2 parts peppermint to 1 part licorice.

A note on the hemp powder: I bought mine from here. The cost was reasonable and shipping very quick, however it was a bit gritty. Maybe next time I’ll get mine here.

As an aside I’ve now got comments open. Oops.

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