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.

Comments

[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.

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

Orange juice (or other juices) also work well in place of the milk if you feel like something less creamy. Adding a bit of silken tofu (just a bit) can add that little bit of protein if you want to make it a breakfast drink.

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I *love* these with mango. I keep seeing the big bag of frozen mango in the grocery store and never pick it up. I really should one of these days. :)

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

*takes note*

(There are really only so many people who would use the word "interstices" in a recipe for a smoothie, and they're all engineers.)