Hey so have I told you all about my green smoothies? A few months ago, when I stopped eating sugar and flirted with a raw food diet (I love coffee too much to do more than that) I discovered the green smoothies. They, the raw foodists, say that you can't taste greens -- spinach, kale, lettuce -- in a fruit smoothie. Sounds impossible but it's true.
I'm no longer eating the majority of my food raw. I kind of wish I was, though, because the raw diet is certainly higher in fruits and vegetables and I hate to admit it but it does make you feel better. It also appears that you really can eat all you want and not puff up like a marshmallow...I'm talking myself into it again, right now, because I feel horrible and big with my current we're-all-sick diet of pizza and chocolate icebox cookies. Sure the sore throat and stuffy nose are not helping, but really I'm in a bad place with my current eating habits. Guess the Margaret Cho Fuck It diet hasn't really sunk in. (WHY are so many women so messed up about food? Why. It's heartbreaking and I hate it. I need another cookie.)
Anyway! Green smoothies. I'm back to cooking my carrots but I've kept up the green smoothies for breakfast because I like them. Weird, huh.
Green Smoothie
a banana
big handful of baby spinach
one lime, quartered and peeled
couple of sprigs of fresh mint
three slices of fresh ginger
handful of either mango or pineapple (I use the latter when I can and frozen mango when I run out.)
Toss it all into a blender, fill about halfway with water and blend for a good couple of minutes.
