More Yummy Pulverized Fruit

Today's concoction:

• Orange
• Plum
• Grapes
• Pear
• Blueberries
• Banana
  
• Ginger

Yesterday's was pretty much the same, except I think there were also strawberries. No photo this time because it looks pretty much the same as the ones in my previous post, except just a big deeper purple color.

With yesterday's smoothie, I used the leftovers to make smoothie pops. They are just as yummy, but frozen. If I remember to take a picture of one of the smoothie pops tonight, I will add it to this post. Oh, gee, there it is!

Smoothies of the Day

Yep, today's smoothie came out yummy too. Kenji was home when I made it, so he asked for a small one. Hence the big smoothie and the little smoothie. Inside:

• 6-8 strawberries
• 1 pear
• 1 nectarine
• 1 orange
  
• 1/4 inch ginger root
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup blueberries
  

Smoothie of the Day

On every day since Monday I have been making a fruit smoothie for myself. The first one was super yummy so I blogged about it. I thought perhaps I would blog about any new ones I make that actually taste good. The ones I made on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I didn't think were all that special so I didn't blog about them. One I tried putting oranges in with a little bit of orange zest; that came out too bitter. Yesterday's had too much ginger in it. Another one I experimented with adding some spices, but decided I was a little heavy-handed with them. But today I think I got my smoothie just right:

• 1 carrot, peeled
  
• 1 nectarine, peeled & seeded
  
• 1 orange, peeled & seeded (no zest!)
• 1/4 inch of ginger root, peeled, minced and pounded to death
• 1/2 cup blueberries

Yep. Stuck everything in the food processor (thanks again MomM) and pulverized it all. Yummy. Perhaps next time I'll remember to take a picture before it's gone!

Yummy Smoothie

Last Thursday I stayed over in NYC visiting my friend Vivan, who is in town for the summer visiting her parents. On Friday morning Viv made a fruit smoothie for us, made from random fruits and berries they happened to have around the kitchen, and some soy milk.

Anyway that inspired me this afternoon to play with the food processor sent to Kenji and me by Mom M for our anniversary this year. Here's what went into today's (will be the first of many) smoothie:

• 1 pear
• 1 nectarine
• couple handsful of blueberries
• about an inch of ginger root, peeled, chopped and smashed with a mortar and pestle
• 6oz vanilla yogurt

It came out super-yummy! I especially liked the ginger. Yumm yummmm yummmm!