Smoothies

There has been chat in the blogosphere about smoothies. Lizzy blogged about green goodness last week on Puddin' Pie. PW my favorite Oklahoma based food blogger wrote about fruit smoothies for breakfast. Well, after reading all about these tasty concoctions and knowing that for the past month my fruit and vegetable consumption has been subpar I though I would try to whip up my own tasty creation. I had one tiny, insignificant, little issue... I do not own a blender. I do however own a mini food processor. No problem I thought, same deal, steel blade, rotating center mechanism, same end product right. Not right! Although the end product tasted great, Kevin slurped his right down, I am still trying to choke the rest of mine down. Because the blade on my food processor is designed to chop onions, garlic, tomatoes etc it made a smoothie full of fruit skin. Yep chunks of oddly textured fruit skin in an otherwise tasty treat. Now, I am well aware that this fruit skin is good for me and I usually have no problem eating it on whole fruit, but gobs of it in a drink is not really my idea of tasty. My afternoon activity might include a trip to Target to find a blender so that when I have my next urge to blend some vitamin and antioxidant rich goodness I can actually drink it. UGH!

Here is what I threw into the mix today.

handful of green grapes
handful of strawberries
handfull of blueberries
handfull of fresh basil
1 container 0% Greek Yogurt
Splash of skim milk
5-7 cubes of ice

I turned that little bugger on with great hopes of fruit filled goodness what I got was a sad semi-blended mixture with chunks of unblended ice and the fruit skin. The texture is just off!

A not so smooth smoothie.

In other news I only have two more ER shifts left both overnights and my very last patient last night was a cutie pie who was only 20 months old. I could have tucked him into my white coat and run away with him, fever and all.