A simple summer recipe from my childhood.

[brooksmoses]

It's been 85 degrees (F, not C, thankfully!) indoors in the shade here, which to my San-Francisco-Bay-acclimated system, feels quite unpleasantly hot. Luckily, there are things one can do to combat this:

Basic Frozen-Fruit Smoothie:

• Fill a large glass with frozen fruit of some sort
• Fill the interstices between the frozen fruit in the glass with milk
• Dump the lot into the blender and puree until no longer chunky

Today's version of this was 2/3rds of a glass of mango, and the rest blueberry; it turned out quite deliciously well. My more usual versions involve just berries (since those are what's common in the store), but I think I'll have to try the mango more often; it makes a nice sort of base to offset the berries.

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[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Ice cream also works well in place of or in addition to milk, especially if you are starting with fresh fruit and could therefore use an extra shot of frozen-ness.

I really ought to start measuring by putting things in the glass I intend to drink from rather than dumping everything straight into the blender; I always wind up with just a bit too much that way.