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Green tea fruit smoothies are made with green tea, strawberries, blueberries, lemon juice, and honey. A healthy alternative to the soda, and other sweet drinks that we like to consume during the hot days of summer.
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A glass full of fruity goodness… strawberry mango banana orange smoothie
I know that I have mentioned this before, but I will mention it again. Friday night at our house is frozen pizza night. I know it is sad to think that a food blogger like myself has nothing better to offer than frozen pizza for dinner. But it is nice to know that I don’t have to plan a meal and we actually kind of look forward to it.
Friday night is also the night that our daughter Lisa and granddaughter Aubrey come to visit, play games, and just goof around. Although of late Friday has also become treat night, too. Most of the time when Lisa arrives, I will ask her what she would like for a treat or dessert for the evening. Chocolate is always at the top of the list, of course. Once in a while I will plan ahead and have fruit sitting in the freezer waiting to be turned in a smoothie.
Such was the case this past Friday. I had put strawberries, mango, and bananas the night before so that they would be ready for the blender.
I love to see our granddaughter’s eyes light when she see the blender come out. She knows what is coming when she sees it come out of the cupboard. Plus she is to the age now (she is 2 1/2 years old) that she likes to help with the cooking or baking. She was helping push the buttons on the blender and was having a grand old time.
The combination of the fruit was perfect. The strawberry, mango, banana, and orange flavors combined to make a very tasty smoothie. And as always it was the best smoothie we have made so far. I usually hear that from everyone, once they taste the latest smoothies.
A healthy smoothie… a great way to end the week.
I bought a big bag of oranges… so now I am trying to find ways to use them all up. I actually wanted just a couple of oranges, but it was more expensive to buy the oranges individually than to buy a whole bag.
Really it shouldn’t be that hard to use them up in recipes. I love baking with oranges… as you saw in my last post with the orange and cinnamon scones.
With the weather finally starting to warm up, I thought it would be a great opportunity to make some smoothies. Plus the fact that it was Friday, I couldn’t think of a better way to end the week than with a nice healthy drink.
Since we loved the orange and cinnamon scones that I mention earlier I decided to slip a little cinnamon into this smoothie. I am a big fan when it comes to cinnamon and was curious if it would taste as yummy in the smoothie as it did in the scones.
I had mixed reactions on this. My daughters who were at our house when I made this, loved the cinnamon. As for Mike he was not quite as sure as they were, he thought it was just okay. As for me I thought it was a great addition to the orange smoothie.
Have you had cinnamon in an orange smoothie before? What do you think?
This summer, Friday nights have become frozen concoction night. Last week we had watermelon frozen margaritas which were great to help unwind after a long week at work, but they were not kid friendly.
You see our daughter and granddaughter usually stop in for dinner on Friday nights.
So this week I decided to go with something that was kid friendly… cantaloupe smoothies. The adults all loved their watermelon in the frozen margarita last week.
But when you have a granddaughter that is not quite 2 years old and she love smoothies; she doesn’t quite understand why all the adults have these wonderful smoothie looking drinks and she can’t have one. So I feel much better that she was able to enjoy her smoothie with the rest of the adults this week.
I had my reservations about using cantaloupe in a smoothie; I wanted to freeze it before putting it in the blender, but I was worried that it may be too dense when frozen for the blender to handle blending it up. But there was no reason to worry, the frozen cantaloupe blended up nicely.
This cantaloupe smoothie is one of the best smoothies I have made so far. I like freezing my fruit when making smoothies and that way I can skip adding ice to them. This way you get the full flavor of the fruit and it doesn’t get watered down with the ice.
I have made a couple of smoothies now with yogurt and I find that it give a creaminess to the smoothie. This cantaloupe smoothie has a cup of plain yogurt in it which gives it a really creamy texture. It reminded me a bit of sherbet, maybe because of how thick and creamy it was.
Smoothies… a great healthy treat for a warm Friday night.
Cantaloupe Smoothie
Ingredients:
4 cups cantaloupe – cut up into small chunks and frozen
Juice from one lime
1 cup of orange juice
1 cup yogurt
1/4 cup sugar or to taste
Directions:
1. Cut cantaloupe into small chunks and freeze. (It would be a good thing to freeze on a baking sheet and freeze so each piece is frozen individually instead of letting the pieces stick together and freeze.
2. Place the lime juice, orange juice, and yogurt into a blender add a few pieces of the frozen cantaloupe at a time and blend until smooth. Continue to do this until all the cantaloupe is blended.
3. Once the cantaloupe is blended taste before adding the sugar. The amount will depend on how sweet the fruit is and your taste. I didn’t use honey, because I was not quite sure how it would taste with this combination of fruit.
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