A Ginger Date Delight Part 1

Good morning!  I hope it shall be a delightful day.  As one is able to rejoice in the good gifts of life of friends, family (or friends providing a family atmosphere of relating and caring) as we journey through a world that is both delightful and can be distressing.   A seeming paradox but one that I hope does not drive us away from life and living.

Before I get to the Ginger and Date Delight; has anyone seen a new commercial that profiles all the ways new appliances and gadgets can organize our lives so that there is little left for us to do other then issue a command?  No need to get up and let the dog out or in.  Or get up and start the coffee as you might then wander through the living space drinking in the beauty of the new day and rejoicing in being alive.  The commercial seems to reinforce don't worry about living an on the edge stressed out never getting enough sleep type of life.  Don't worry your appliances and gadgets will fill in.  Little effort required, your appliances and gadgets will fill in and do the work for you.

Where and how did we ever get to the place of thinking someone else, now appliances and gadgets will now do all the work for us?  That we shall not be active in living but just receive the dubious benefits of appliance and gadgets being active for us?

Now, before someone thinks I am out of touch and dislike modern life, the question is not what can modern life offer but what is modern life doing to us with what it offers?

Now to the taste of the day.


Ginger-Date Delight  Part 1

1 Avocado

1 Banana

Small handful of carrots

Small handful of spinach

1-2 TBSP of Almond Butter or Peanut Butter  Lacking these?  Just put in 8-10
almonds.

Ginger to taste.  Want it sharper?  Use more.  Nice taste contrast to the smooth richness of the avocado.

1/2 inch of pressed dates cut from a 1 kg block.

Orange juice or if you don't want the added sugar of the juice just add orange zest.  Remember that both the orange zest and the ginger will be sharp tastes in contrast to the smoothness of the other ingredients.

Coconut Milk -- adjust your liquid for how thick or thin you want the drink to be.

Additions -- when I try this one again I intend to replace the carrots with cucumber as one of my experiments with this creation.


Combine.

 Blending Note --  do not try and blend the dates completely so that you lose all the pieces.  My wife commented that it was a nice surprise to be drinking the product and then have small pieces of dates to chew on as you savoured the flavours of the drink.   By small I mean small.

Happy Eating

Grace and Peace