Cooking Experiment: Strawberry/Banana/Carrots Smoothie

[tuftears]

No pictures because, well, a picture of a reddish-white liquid is fairly uninspiring!

After some thinking about it, I finally picked up a Ninja blender from CostCo-- it doubles as a food processor!-- and some strawberries, bananas, and a container of plain Greek yogurt. I also secured some wheat germ from Safeway, along with another couple pounds of carrots.

After washing the blender parts, I shredded the carrots in the food processor, then trimmed the strawberries, made those into a puree, tossed in three of the bananas, added a thin layer of wheat germ, then finally put in half the container of yogurt and blended that all together. This made 72 ounces of some reddish-white liquid.

I determined that the mixture was too warm to tempting, so I decanted it into three bottles, 24 ounces each, and stored them in the refrigerator.

Verdict? Not quite sweet enough, though texture-wise it's plausible. I think the CostCo strawberries may be force-grown, they looked white on parts. I need to look for some 'real' strawberries that should be much sweeter.

So, any smoothie recipes y'all want to share? Suggestions where to buy good fruit?

Comments

[sassinak.livejournal.com]

I buy pre-washed spinach packed in bags. I use what I can in 2 or 3 days, then toss the rest of the bag in the freezer. Take the bag out of the freezer in a few hours and crush it by gently hitting the bag. It works great in smoothies straight from the freezer, also in quiche.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Handy tip! Where do you buy spinach in bags, and what size bags? The biggest containers I've seen are one-pound boxes of baby spinach, at Safeway's.