I am a smoothy novice and I am not ashamed to admit that. In fact I am not adventurous with flavour at all. I only bought my blender to blend up compost scraps and paper and generally non edible things. unfortunately, the blender has broken down my defences and tempted me to try smoothies. The magazines may have us believe that you need at least seven different types of fresh fruit and ice and superberrys and moondust to make a smoothie. Do not believe the magazines. I bet you probably have the ingredients to my TWO smoothies in your house already. If you don’t, tesco express seems to be colonizing every inch of the earth at the moment. Go and find one. My first smoothie only has two “ingredients” and tastes amazing. I am in the process of freezing it into ice lollys and ice cubes as a cooling snack (and to stop It going icky). It is called a cupboard smoothie (because I said so) and I imagine kids might like it n a bowl with a dollop of ice cream. Despite this having no sugar (apart from fruit sugar from fruit) it is surprisingly sweet. Even I could manage it.
INGREDIENTS:
One tin of fruit cocktail IN JUICE (not syrup, unless you want to be unhealthy)
One tin of peach slices IN JUICE
That’s it.
Realy.
METHOD:
1: open the two cans
2: pour the contents of the two cans into a blender, including juice and fruit
3: blend untill smooth
4: optional: pour into ice lolly molds and freeze before serving.
My second smoothie recipe came from increased confidence, and decreased leftover fruit cocktail. I will call it cupboard smoothie two, revenge of the fruitbowl. This contains some actual fresh fruit and has a creamy flavour. I drink it mixed half and half with lemonade sometimes.
INGREDIENTS:
2 ripe or slightly over ripe bananas
1 small eating apple
1 tin of pears in juice
Milk
METHOD:
1: peel the two bananas and slice them into the blender
2: core and slice the apple. Put it in the blender
3: open the tin of pears, empty contents into the blender
4: put the lid on the blender, blend untill smooth
5: add milk to reach desired consistency and blend again
I don’t know if you have guessed yet, but smoothies are ridiculously easy. When I get round to it I want to blend just a lot of bananas and some tinned custard and freeze it, stirring every hour or so to make a kind of ice cream. If it works I will post a recipe :) happy blendering.
