Kale Avocado Banana Smoothies

Kale is the popular vegetable at my home since I get to know of its nutrition facts. It belong to cabbage family and like other leafy greens it is loaded with lot of antioxidants, can help lower the cholesterol, etc. The best part is it can be added to our diet very easily, for instance, by adding Kale in salad or smoothies are some easy ways I usually do.

Just by simply adding a small bunch of Kale, the nutrient of this smoothies increase a lot! You can add whatever quantities of kale, avocado, and banana to suit your family taste, there isn't any fix recipe for this smoothies, if you like the smoothies to be more creamy and thick, add less milk. If you love the smoothies to be more runny, add more milk to it. Just that! 

Ingredients: 
yield:  4 serving
a bunch of kale, cut into bite size
1 big size avocado, deseed, cut into small
1 banana, cut into 4 pieces
1 lime juice
3 tablespoons honey
400 ml milk 

Method:
1. Place all ingredients into a blender, blend for a few mins until there is no big chunk of vegetables. 
2. Pour into serving mug, serve immediately. 

Qatar Karak Tea 卡达尔咖乐茶

Karak Tea is the popular spices Arabic drink which believe to be originated from India. The Qatar Karak Tea is not as spicy as what we get in the Indian Masala Chai Tea, there are varies version of Karak Tea with endless possibilities in the use of spices to suit your taste bud. 

The basic common ingredients used are: black tea, condensed milk or evaporated milk, sugar and spices. Some people like to add spices such as ginger, cardamon, cinnamon, star anise , peppercorn, nutmeg or cloves. As for my family, I add saffron and little sugar in it. In Qatar we can get a special evaporated milk that comes with cardamon flavour, most people believe it's to cater for the local drinking culture. 

This should be the last post before I break for my summer holidays and wishing all Muslim friends and readers Happy Eid Mubarak in advance!

今天就来杯卡达尔文化的咖乐茶，这是源自印度的阿拉伯香料茶。如果拿卡达尔的咖乐茶和印度的麻撒拉彩茶比较，后者是扁辣的。当地人喜欢在茶里变动和加添香料，使一杯原本普通口味的咖乐茶变成有无尽又多元化，在口味方面来配合每一个人不同的需求。

大致上泡一杯咖乐茶得用上：红茶，练奶或淡奶，糖和香料。有人喜欢在茶里加姜，豆蔻，肉桂，茴芹，胡椒粒，肉豆蔻或蒜瓣。我喜欢在茶里加藏红红粉和一点糖。在卡达尔我们可以买到添加了豆蔻的淡奶，听说是厂商特别为当地人的喝茶习俗而提供的。要先说的是，这可是一杯会口味留香的重口感咖乐茶哟。

我将放暑假去了，预祝大家假期悦快！

Yield: 4 glasses of small Karak Tea
Ingredients:
15g Black tea (used Red Label tea)
200ml hot water
50ml evaporated milk (Rainbow brand with cardamon)
a pinch of saffron
sugar (to taste)

Method:

Put the black tea in a small tea bag, place the tea bag in the tea pot, add saffron. Pour in the hot boiled water, add evaporated milk and sugar (to taste). Stir well to dissolve the sugar before serving.

This post is linked to the event Little Thumbs Up (July 2015 Event: Tea) 

organised by Zoe of Bake for Happy Kids and Doreen of My Little Favourite DIY 

and hosted by Cheryl of Baking Taitai. 

Nata De Coco Grass Jelly with Rose Syrup and Lime

When there's friends come over, how you prepare a dessert or a drink in a easy and hazard hassle free way? This is the one :) Nata De Coco Grass Jelly with Rose Syrup and Lime, it tastes refreshing with that bit of sharp flavour from calamansi lime and I believes it will be the talking point among friends for a while :) I simply love biting the springy nata de coco and grass jelly while smelling fragrance of roses and at the mid-time having that bit of sourly in my tongue :)

I always store up a pack of two Nata De Coco and Grass Jelly at home because...yes, you are right! Is Gabriel favourites again :)

Note: I'll be away for holidays until 19 Nov 2012. See you soon :)

Recipe from Ah Tze's Kitchen Play

1 medium pack of sweeten grass jelly, cut into small cubes

1 pack of nata de coco (whichever flavour you like)

2 calamansi limes, halved

4-5 tbsp rose syrup (if you wish the drink to be sweeter, add more)

lot of ice cubes

100ml water

Method:

1. In a medium bowl, pour in nata de coco and grass jelly cubes, add 4-5 tbsp rose syrup, stir well.

2. In a serving glass, add some ice cubes, scoop the nata de coco and grass jelly into glass, add a bit of water and squeeze a bit of lime juice into glass and serve the lime halves on the side.

3. Taste the drink, you may add a tbsp of rose syrup into drink if you wish to have a stronger rose fragrant.