Nutrient-Packed Fruit Smoothies

Recently, a friend of mine has turned me onto avocado smoothies, found at this website. I know, you're thinking that sounds incredibly gross, right? Well, it's not. The avocado makes the smoothie very smooth and creamy without needed ice or ice cream or anything like that. The citrus covers the taste of avocado, and avocado is crazy good for you. Pop in some citrus, coconut milk, and honey/cinnamon/sweet stuff, and you will turn into the healthiest mutant fruit monster ever created.
My friend uses banana, clementines, avocado, cinnamon, honey, and probably other stuff that I can't for the life of me remember. Now, citrus is all fine and dandy, but I want something else, you know?

This is what mine turned out looking like. It really looks a lot like puke. It didn't turn out very thick probably because I put in too much milk and I forgot the banana.

BUT! It's pretty good. I put in half an avocado, two bunches of grapes, two clementines, and squeezed in one lime. Then I put in something between 1/2 cup and 1 cup of coconut milk. I also neglected honey and cinnamon because I was too hungry when I made this to think through all the good stuff I should put in. It's very strong, I put in too much lemon and probably one too many clementines. Still, it's pretty good. I threw it in my one-serving blender and viola! One fruit smoothie that is not so very smooth.

WAIT DON'T LEAVE YET.
I made another smoothie that was much more smooth. Half an avocado, one peach (canned), one clementine, about two handfuls of pineapple tidbits, a banana, some honey, and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Then a dash of coconut milk (just a dash!) and this is what it'll look like.

NOM NOM NOM
Then you blend it til it bleeds smoothie goodness. This one turns out very smooth and creamy and it more-or-less citrusy with a very strong taste of banana. I'll put in half of one next time because I prefer less of that banana taste. Cheers.

Green Tea Mojitos/Yogurt and Fruit Smoothies

I had my brunch cooking buddy help me pick out recipes this time. She is really big on tea and loves rum and so naturally she came across a brunch booze recipe for green tea mojitos. I figured we could give it a try even though I'm not big on green tea or mint in anything but hot tea. She found it on a website, and I don't have it with me or else I would post a link to it. Sorry, whoever's website that was! 

So I brewed the green tea Saturday night. This same night I went all over town (the town of heathens as I mentioned in my baked brie post) looking for mint because that is a completely necessary ingredient for mojitos. As I said in my blueberry banana bread post, it was not to be gotten. So, I did something radical. Because we were already making tea, I figured I'd just add peppermint tea and everything would be fine. 

I put the green tea in the fridge overnight unsweetened, and I made the peppermint tea in the morning when my cooking buddy brought it. We brewed it and mixed it all in and then added rum and sugar according to the preference of the guest. 


I'm going to leave the critique to my brunch cooking buddy whom I'm going to call Hatty because the name amuses me. She says, "About the green tea mojito, you should make the tea with a lot of sugar if we do it again. And more mint is needed (so more mint tea). Also, the limes need to be squeezed in and not just used for garnish (I forgot that part). The way I made them, they weren't that great." No, they were not great, and it seems the guests thought the same. 


The midmorning was saved by the fact that I just bought a blender last week. I had bought yogurt for brunch as requested by my brunch partner (and no one was eating that either) as well as some fruit. When the tea didn't pan out, I suggested they made fruit and yogurt and almond/coconut milk smoothies with rum or vanilla vodka. That was astoundingly successful. So I count this as a fail/win. I only won because I have a sizable liquor cupboard from so many brunches that had leftover liquor. 

Also, I told you I was going to post both my failures and successes, and there you have it.