Berry Berry Peach Smoothie

Hubby has finally started to like my smoothies! I had a little round blender from Hemilton but it  got a chip around the top edge. It didn't hold as much liquid and it would leak out the top whenever I put liquid in it. I love my new Graetz blender!

Today hubs comes home from the gym thirsty for a post-workout smoothie. "Smoothie me!!", he says!!

Berry Berry Peach Smoothie
I mixed up strawberries, frozen raspberries and peach juice. He took one sip and ran away with the whole glass, I barely had any left to try or take pictures of!! 

It was so good!! I'm so excited to think up new ideas!

What kinds of smoothies do you like? Care to share some recipes??

 Shabbat Shalom!

-Marina

Peach Banana Berry Shake

Hello everybody! 
It's the start of a new week. Passover just ended and my mom and sister just got home from their trip to Israel. We had lots of fun touring and traveling with them. We visited lots of cool new places as well as showed them some of our favorite spots. It was also great to see lots of relatives!   Mom and Mich Do Israel Album


I'm back with another delicious shake recipe! I'm excited to share this with you all because this morning I bought a new Graetz blender and now I can make all sorts if yummy drinks.

This shake is all fruit. No dairy. Inspired by Jamba Juice but not as frozen. I find it hard to drink frozen drinks from a straw and finally wanted to try something with just fruit and juice.


Peach Banana Berry Shake

I mixed a cup of peach juice with a small frozen banana and behalf a cup of frozen raspberries and blended it all together til smooth. 

You can use any combo of berries and juices you like. What are your favorite smoothie recipes?? Comment below!!

Enjoy!

 Shalom

-Marina

Ferraro Roche PB Layered Pops

It's getting warm in Jerusalem and that means its OK to start eating ice cream. Hubby and I bought some vanilla bean ice cream and chocolate syrup. One day on my daily stroll through Pinterest-ville I ran into a recipe that made my mouth water. 

Here is my version of the recipe

Ferraro Roche PB Layered Pops- 
You can use any king of toppings/ fillings you like!!

Into two little paper cups I crushed several roasted peanuts. I then layered some ice cream, choc fudge, a Ferraro Roche ball, more ice cream, peanut butter and a final layer of ice cream and crushed peanuts. You can layer anyway you want! I put a little extra peanut butter for hubby and a little more Ferraro Roche for me. Insert your Popsicle stick in about 3/4 of the way and pop in the freezer for a few hours!!

Passover is only a few days away and my mom, grandma and sister are coming to visit!! We are so excited to have them here with us for the holiday!! We're gonna take them up north to Metulla, take a tour of Masada, Ein Gedi and the Dead Sea and show them all around Jerusalem.

and...we've booked our trip home to America at the end of June too!! Alrighty enough rambling, back to the ice cream. =) 

-Shabbat Shalom!

Marina

Veggie Bake

After posting a picture of the dish hubby and I cooked up for Shabbat dinner this past Friday, I got a large response of friends on Facebook. Our assignment from our friends, who were hosting the dinner, was to make something hearty with veggies. Hubby really had his heart set on making brownies but after we saw how easy this was to make and how delicious it was, I'm sure we'll be making this time and time again. The seven of us at the dinner gobbled it up in no time!

I found this recipe online at Olives and Bread. 
Here is her recipe: Baked Vegetables with Cheese

 -Shalom

Marina

EuroTrip- Sofia, Bulgaria & Bucharest, Romania

Sorry for the late update!

Our second and third stops on our trip

Sofia, Bulgaria

Train at the station

Excited for my first overnight train ride - Istanbul to Sofia

My hubby with some beer and rakia at Skara Bar in Sofia.

Delicious Bulgarian BBQ!

Basically a map of the trip we took

Gondola to Mt. Vitosha

Bucharest, Romania

We have a lot more pictures of our whole trip on Facebook. 

Here is of the the yummiest things we encountered on our trip. It's called "Papanasi"- cheese dumpling doughnut goodness with raspberry jam.

                                 

 Shalom!

~Marina

EuroTrip- Istanbul, Turkey

Sorry for the late update! As soon as we came back from our trip we were bombarded with Purim, the start of another semester for Evan, sickness and deciding weather we wanted to move early or not. 
Here are a few pictures from our trip. 

Istanbul, Turkey
  
Spice Market

Baklava

Blue Mosque

City on the Bosphorus

Delicious Turkish coffee

Shalom

~Marina

Purim

We got home from our vacation and straight into Purim, which lasts all weekend. 
Here is my hubby as Pablo Escobar.

Pablo and Luke Scully-Walker

Some guy at a rooftop party- Aladdin and Abu, me and Luke!