Green smoothie concentrates:
- Mini muffin tin or silicone ice cube trays... like a few of those things.
- A 2:1 ratio of greens to fruit.. so 2 loose handfuls of greens like spinach, romaine lettuce, and kale mixture to 1 cup of packed fruit
- A container of something sweet.. I used a mix of orange juice, milk, and so delicious egg nog
- If you want other shit.. like soaked chia seeds, or flax seeds, or like that cocoa powder stuff. I used coco complete since my boyfriend's had it sitting there forever, and date sugar
Basically, put the dry stuff in the blender and start it up. Slowly pour the liquid in the top until it starts to blend well on its own. Then run it for long enough so that all the chunks of stuff are cut down to bits. Pour the thick mixture into ice cube trays or muffin tins (if you use regular muffin tins you can either blend them again, or you can cut them after they're frozen into smaller pieces) and freeze solid. Then put into a zip lock baggie or container, and that's pretty much it. You just stick the pieces into water (that's why you use some other liquid at the beginning part) and shake them up when they've defrosted a bit, and drink. No loud noisy blender necessary first thing in the morning.
Green soup:
This is very difficult soup to make. For the ingredients, go to the store, and ask yourself: Is this green? .. If the answer is yes, it probably belongs in this soup. Pick all your favorite green things! Spinach in soup, you say? Yes! What about this odd weird thing that's green called celery bulb that has some white on it too? Who cares, throw it in! What if I can't handle spicy food? One jalapeno won't break a whole thing of soup!
There's part one: the boiling part... celery, bell pepper, zucchini, leeks, green onion, you name it.. if it's a hardier piece of something it belongs in the boiling part. Mix it with some spices of choice, veggie broth, and water. I also used already-squeezed lemons and boiled them to extract some of the lemony goodness. The spices really make the soup, so be generous and use what you like. I just used an italian blend with some salt and pepper because I always add cream and hot sauce to my finished soups so it's okay for me that they start off bland.
Part two: The blending part. If you have other stuff like spinach, kale, cucumber, or softer green pieces, this is where they come in. As you're blending soup up, drop a handful of the softer greens into the blender and go. Keep piecing it this way. You can also drop the softer bits in for the last minute or two of boiling to let them wilt a bit as well. This will make the soup a nice, vibrant green color, and make it all nice and smooth too.
Part three: There is no part three! Eat that shit! I did divide the soup up and freeze portions of it and stuff like that, but it's done son!