LottaFrutta

LOTTAFRUTA

This is just a quickie. I discovered a little hole-in-the wall restaurant that had the coolest food! It was called LottaFrutta.

This place had murals of gigantic fruits and berries painted in the entire space. The owner is an adorable young Brazilian woman with bright sparkling eyes. She lives directly above her shop and is always bouncing around her cafe talking about the benefits of each fruit.

This is their Dolce Vitta. The combination of yogurt with honey drizzeled on top and a myraid of fruits was pure heaven! Definitely have to recreate this at home! I loved her idea of adding honey to the fruit and yogurt.

I also got a grilled sanduch there. It's like a panini with cucumbers, aavocados, sprouts, havarati cheese and tomatoes! It was incredible with fresh locally baked bread. I think I just became addicted to LottaFrutta!

Green Smoothies!

I just came across a new website and found a brillant recipe idea. Read the whole article under "Ode to Green Smoothies" by Victoria Boutenko.

The idea is to mix greens (40%) and fruit (60%) together with water and create a delicious shake. So I had a few overly ripe bananas and some spring mix salad wilting in the fridge and decided to try it.

I threw in the two old bananas, a handful of salad greens, a little bit of water and about 4 ice cubes just because I like it cold!

At first I told myself that I loved it, and then acknowledged that I was lying :D. It was a little bitter (from the wilting spring mix no doubt) and watery (too much water!). So I added some maple syrup to it. It turned out pretty good and it was OH so filling!

Next time I won't have to add syrup if I use fresh non-bitter greens (ie baby spinach) and a sweet fruit in addition to the banana. I'm definetly going to give it another try! I love the idea of gettting some many good vitamins and good taste in an easy to fix, raw, yummy recipe.