Food - Brekkie Smoothies

A kick ass brekkie smoothie. Seriously, I can't think of any better way to start the morning. But that's just me... I love smoothies and while I could tell you all the good places around my area to buy them I'm not going to. I'm going to tell you all about the smoothies that I make because I think they are pretty amazing. They are quick, easyand best of all, they are cheap! You know, who wants to pay a whopping 6 dollars from a Boost Juice (or whatever) when you can make one that is equally fabulous at home...and I promise you, they are fab.

So, here's what I do:

1. Get my Thermomix all preped and ready to rock and roll (if you are wondering, 'what the f*** is a Thermomix', it's what I use for a blender. And what an amazing blender it is. It's so good that I'm going to dedicate one whole blog to talking about it. But more of that later. It's Smoothie time)

2. I put a handfull of ice cubes, one frozen banana (this is crucial, a frozen banana makes the texture of the smoothie much thicker and infinitely better), a couple of frozen raspberries, about 50ml of Orange Juice and 100ml of skim milk all into the Thermomix bowl. I turn the Thermomix up to full capaxity spin and BAM. We have a smoothie.

3. For the finishing touches, I sometimes add a teaspoon of honey for a little bit of extra sweetness. Yum.

Honestly, they are incredible and super healthy. No bad stuff, it's all good. So good that I'm off to make one right now.

Do you make any amazing smoothies?
If you do, please tell me about them!

*Kick Ass - note the reference to Tash's previous blog! Yes, I did that on purpose!

Films - Kick Ass

On Friday I went to go see the much talked about movie Kick Ass, and it was awesome! Unfortunately it's mainly been talked about due to the fact that parents don't think it's an acceptable movie for their children highlighted thanks to another Mel and Kochie crusade, to that I say: well done! The classification board agrees with you, that's why you shouldn't be taking your children to an MA15+ film.

My favourite character in the film is quite obviously the character of Hit Girl, played by Chloe Moretz who has also been in Dirty Sexy Money and (500) Days of Summer. She was insane! The 10 year old version of The Bride from Kill Bill. The film had the perfect amounts of comedy, action, gore and heart felt moments and if it does convince any 10 year old children to become homicidal super heros then at least they'll be doing it in style.

Much of the controversy lies around Hit Girl and the fact that she is taught by her father to kill people in quite gruesome ways, apparently this is going to be teaching our children bad lessons. I suppose that is why the classification board doesn't recommend you taking little kiddies to the film (obviously), I think they realise that people over the age of 15 should have the capability to see what I feel is the true meaning behind a film that is also simply visually stimulating and enjoyable: that regular people have the ability to stand up for others when bad stuff happens rather than just walking by and ignoring it. If I was a film critic I would give it 5 stars!

Eateries - Zambrero, Fresh Mex Grill

I meant to write about this a little while back when Roxy and I popped in here for lunch the other week. We were supposed to be going to this little vegetarian restaurant that we keep meaning to check out. It's one of those hole in the wall places. Just a yellow door that leads up a flight of stairs to a very small and over crowded room that apparently does very excellent food. I say apparently because it's only recently that we managed to find the place, and when we finally got up there it was way too crowded for us to get a seat and we were in the middle of a lunch break so we couldn't stand around waiting.

Instead we went to a new Mexican place on Rundle Street called Zambrero. I'd walked past it on my way to the vegetarian and it caught my eye (in case you haven't picked up on it, I love Mexican food of any kind whether the genuine or the tex mex sort)

It was a really interesting place, similar to burp in the way that you choose your meat, choose your fillings and then eat an incredibly overstuffed burrito but there were some interesting things about it too. For starters the tortillas were different, I'm not sure if they were more of a traditional style tortilla or not but they seemed to be more like roti to me. Not that this was a problem, they were delicious and freshly made as well. The ones at burp (not that I'm complaining, I'm just still a bit sore over the whole guacamole fiasco) seem just like the ones you get out of the packet. They're tasty but they don't have that fresh taste to them. The chicken we had was also interesting, once again I could almost taste Indian flavours to it. At the end they also offer you a choice of sauces which helped add a bit of zing to the whole thing. 

There were only two dissapointing things about the whole place. Firstly there was so mango salsa and I love having mango salsa on my wrap at burp. Secondly they make you pay 50¢ extra for guacamole, that was all a bit too subway for me. Although speaking of quacamole, I did love this:

At least I know that they think guacamole is a very important addition to any burrito, and maybe the extra 50¢ I pay them will go to ensuring that I never end up with a guac-less burrito. 

(Their website is also very cute, they even have a game where you shoot flying tacos, burritos and corn chips!)

Stuff I Do - Radio

As part of my Uni degree I signed up to be involved in a radio show. That's right, every week I get together with a group of 8 other awesome uni students and we plan and produce a really rad radio show. It's called 'Y' on Radio Adelaide 101.5. To sum it up briefly, our show profiles Generation Y - so we bust the myths surrounding the generation, talk about what we like, what we do etc etc. Anyway, the show is on Wednesdays, at 3:00pm on 101.5 (Yes, I did just shamefully plug my radio show on my blog!). I know you want to listen in... right? Come on!

Y. Wednesday. 3:00pm. Radio Adelaide 101.5

So valued readers (I hope you exist!), do you listen to radio?
What programs?
Are they a commercial or community station (Radio Adelaide is Community so no ads...yeeha!)

P.S If you really want to listen in but don't have a radio handy, listen online.

Obsessions - Prams

So I talked a bit in our first blogs about obsession, so I thought I'd share a little something that I'm a little bit obsessed with. It might seem like a strange thing, considering I'm only 20 and I definitely don't have any bubs of my own, but there is just something about prams/buggies/strollers that I love. These are a selection of some of my favourite ones. The Quinny Zapp, the Cath Kidston Maclaren, the Stokke Explory, a Phil & Teds double buggy, the Bugaboo Chameleon and then a Mamas and Papas Skate. I know most people wont get the obsession side of things, but I think everyone should be able to appreciate that these all have some really nice design elements. I love it when companies get designers such as Cath Kidston (Maclaren) or Paul Frank (Bugaboo) to do designs for them, and I love that all of these have such clean lines and such interesting designs compared to the $24 pram you can pick up from Big W.

So does anyone else appreciate these prams, or do I just seem insane? I'm obviously not going to go out and buy any of these, but like with anything when I see a nice price of design then I can't help but like it.