You ever have a time in your life when some serious stuff goes down and all the goofy little things you used to blog about suddenly seem rather pointless? That pretty much sums up where I’ve been since the end of last month.
However, at the moment, I am drinking a smoothie (or, as Naomi calls it, a “smooby”). I sort of made up the recipe, and it’s quite good. Figured I’d share. Now I can feel slightly less guilty for dropping off the face of the Internet so entirely. If you drink it and like it, holler back.
I use about a half cup of each of the following, mostly because I’m lazy and I don’t feel like having to clean more than one measuring cup (oh and I get all this stuff from Trader Joe’s, in case that matters to anyone):
- Frozen strawberries
- Frozen blueberries
- Frozen mango chunks
- Lowfat vanilla yogurt
- 1% milk
- 100% pink grapefruit juice
Dump all that in the blender (wait for the fruit to thaw a bit if your blender is a little on the wussy side, as mine is, or use fresh fruit if you have it). Add a banana. Blend. Add 6-8 ice cubes. Blend again.
Enjoy.
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We’ve been doing a LOT of smoothie-making at my house–we have them probably 4-5 mornings a week. We have an immersion blender, which I can’t recommend enough–it’s like a blender on a stick that you can put into any container (cup, bowl, pot, crockpot, etc) to blend the contents. It makes smoothie-making super easy and the clean up even easier (no multiple blender parts, no heavy glass pitcher).
We also love the TJ’s frozen fruit–we microwave it a bit to soften it up. We do orange juice or pineapple juice and skip the millk entirely. We’ve also been adding a spoonful of honey–lately we use local honey in an effort to combat allergies–and we don’t use ice at all. Yum.
If only I didn’t covet basically every single kitchen gadget and small appliance ever invented, I would surely have an immersion blender by now. But that’s a good idea. No milk or ice seems to cut down on some of the fun (I like frosty and creamy!) but I can see why it’s good to omit them.
Now, have you gone the green route yet? That’s something I’ve been thinking I might try. Get some baby spinach in on the fun.