Tuesday, May 11, 2010

back in business!

Hooray! Green smoothies! I was missing them so. So yesterday I picked up my parent's blender on the way home from work, to borrow while our was getting fixed, and today when I came home Ken surprised me by having the blender fixed! I don't know how he did it but now it's done. Of course I blended up a delicious green smoothie right away. It was maybe the best one ever.

5 comments:

Joy said...

Our blender came this weekend too! Isn't it funny how the green smoothies taste even more delicious when you've been missing them so much. :)

cagio said...

What's the recipe for your favorite? We just tried working in some mustard greens - too many actually and it was too spicy. I'd love to hear what you tried.

Amber said...

Do you have small green leafy bits in your green smoothies? I made my first one this morning (banana, strawberries, blueberries, spinach, yogurt, carrots) it tasted great but felt like I was sifting spinach through my mouth. Any thoughts?

Mary Beth said...

Cagio--banana, ice, frozen mango chunks, 2 oranges (fresh and cut up), 1 apple, plenty of spinach, and enough diluted apple juice to get it to blend. I think that's all. I love it to be bright green so I tend to avoid berries.

Amber--yes, there's a lot of fruit and spinach in there so it's a bit pulpy I would say. If you run the blender a long time the bits get smaller, of course. Also, if you make the smoothie a bit more "frozen" (by using plenty of ice and frozen fruit chunks) the pulpy texture seems less noticeable. That said, I just embrace the texture--it's all part of a green smoothie.

cagio said...

Thanks for the recipe! For Amber - if she sees this - I saw somewhere to blend the greens first with liquid - we do 4-5 cups greens and 2 cups water. Pulverize that completly. Then add as much fruit as your blender will allow and blend again. That way we don't get the chunks anymore.

Thanks again Mary Beth.