OHHHHHHHH MAN.
It has been a LONG time since I've put anything up here.
For the first few months after summer, I was just super busy settling into my internship an getting in the flow of things so I never ha time to try new recipes. I just stuck with what was familiar, because things that are familiar to cook are quicker and easier. Once I got into the flow of interning, and I finally started to find myself with a little more time....I found myself morning sick. 24/7. Yuck. I have an anti-nausea medication that helps (and that's the only way I survived school) but it's pretty worn off by evening, and so I always feel crummy and therefore, certainly not like cooking. Hence, the cooking blog has suffered. Badly. Anyway, the constant nausea is finally starting to fade a bit (YAY!) and I may actually start posting things again!
Starting with today.
Can I just say how excited I get when I find really really really really really good fruit sales??? Oh man. I went to Sunflower market after school today and found packages of strawberries for $1.27, packages of blackberries for $.88 and really good deals on some other produce. Then, this evening we went to Buy Low and oranges were 8 lbs/$1.....which is stinking awesome! We got like 15-20 oranges for like $.80! SO awesome! Anyway, with all the good grocery deals we found today, our fridge is PACKED with fruits and veggies (the ones I mentioned, plus cucumbers, bell peppers, granny smith apples, cherry tomatoes, lettuce heads, bananas, regular tomatoes, cilantro, tons of baby carrots etc). For the next few weeks, I am going to be one healthy mama! Maybe that will make up for the last while where ice cream and rootbeer were the things that settled my stomach most when I was sick :) Seriously, I think baby has a sweet tooth just like Ben :) I take that back...not a sweet TOOTH, more like an ENTIRE set of sweet choppers.
Okay.....now on to the recipe! A berry orange fruit smoothie.
It's super easy.
I just had so much fruit all over, I threw some of it together, and really liked how it turned out. Usually, when I throw random fruits together into a smoothie, I get all excited about how yummy it's going to taste, but it never tastes like I think it will. It always has a little too much this or that or it lacks something that makes it truly delicious. I've never been super impressed with a fruit smoothie I've made before. I still love making them, I guess I've just never had one hit the flavor spot quite like this one. This could totally be the next jamba flavor!
Alright, here's what you do.
Easy.
In your blender (I used a magic bullet cup, so the recipe is small, but you could make it bigger), put:
6-7 Blackberries
2-3 strawberries
3-4 big spoon fulls of strawberry yogurt (and by big spoon fulls I mean use a big spoon)
3/4 of an orange (I used a medium to small sized one. Peel all the white, bitter stuff off really well )
5-6 ice cubes
Blend together.
Ta Da!
It comes out this beautiful dark purple color, and it tastes simply delightful :)
TRY IT!!!!
I would take a picture, but I already downed the one I made so the picture would only be of a magic bullet cup with slightly purple smoothie remains clinging to it's sides. Not so pretty. Maybe I'll add a picture tomorrow when I make another one.
Or maybe you should just make your own :) Then you'd know what it looks like.
P.S. It drives me bonkers that any word I put in my post that may have a Wikipedia article about it automatically gets underlined and turned into a link. Like smoothie, for instance. No one reading my blog needs a link to an article to tell them what a smoothie is. It drives me NUTS. Does anyone know if you can turn it off? And if so, how?
