Aloha Friday: Smoothie Time
Lately, NHL has been begging me to make him smoothies. While grocery shopping, he’ll spot the orange juice and beg me to buy some to add to smoothies. JSL loves drinking them. They also happen to be very nutritious, so who am I to object?
For dessert after one of my grilling adventures, I had purchased a small watermelon. As it happened, I decided against slicing it. It sat on the counter for awhile until I sliced it up. At that point, I figured that it wouldn’t a long (refrigerator) shelf life so I searched for some watermelon smoothie recipes. I found this Watermelon Blueberry Smoothie recipe.
Today, after dinner, I decided to whip up some smoothies.
Doubling the recipe, assisted by JSL and so excited that I forgot to take photos of the process (yes, really!), I put in the watermelon, honey, lemon juice and frozen blueberries into the blender. After pureeing, I fought off JSL who couldn’t wait for smoothies.
We split the entire double-recipe batch among the four of us and drank up. The verdict was unanimous: Delicious! NHL and JSL both asked for seconds (thirds in NHL’s case) and drank until nothing was left. This is definitely something we’ll be making again.
My Aloha Friday question for today is: Do you make smoothies? If so, what’s your favorite smoothie to make?
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I have to say, I think this may be one of my favorites. I liked how refreshing and light it was. The combination of blueberry and watermelon was perfect. Yum!
We make smoothies daily at my house. Usually it’s a mixture of berries like blueberries, raspberries, and acai, with cinnamon, milk, coconut water, and…I don’t remember what else! They are really tasty though! Your’s looks delicious also!
Have a good weekend!
I don’t like most fruits so I don’t make smoothies. I do get a chocolate peanut butter “smoothie” from a local coffee shop sometimes though LOL
Yes! We love smoothies. My favorite is cherry.
My children go bonkers for smoothies! We have strawberries here on the farm, I also have a freezer filled with frozen blueberries we picked last summer and frozen browned bananas. Usually we grab a combination of those and hit smoothie on the Blendtec. Yummy!
I have not made any as yet this year, but I make them during summer and I love the strawberry flavors.
Aloha!
Love smoothies and anything Chocolate is my favorite.
I love smoothies, but I never make them myself. My favorite is peach mango.
Love smoothies!! If I had to chose a favorite, it would be a mix of berries and/or one with chocolate.
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How funny! We were just at my Dad’s house this evening and he made his famous fruit smoothie for the girls.