Today is Baking Monday, but in this heat who wants to bake? (Our high was about 39 c or 102 f) However, I have discovered a most delicious, cold, smooth, and refreshing drink I have been making almost daily. Feast your eyes on the details of this delicious combo that I will admit I have ripped off from watching closely how a national franchise makes their yummy strawberry drinks.
Now this franchise uses a processed strawberry mix that has, who knows, how many calories. They add it to a cup full of ice until the cup is filled to the brim with both the ice and this liquid berry mix. I on the other hand do not use ice cubes - opting instead for individual frozen strawberries that I have purchased in bulk from my nearest and dearest Aldi.
So here is my version of a delicious Strawberry smoothie!
Choose a large cup or mug. I like to use my Got Monks travel mug.
Fill to the brim (loosely, not packed tight) with frozen strawberries
Then add milk (2 %, whole or half and half or variation there of, essentially to your liking. I often use half and half) until the cup is filled.
Pour the strawberry milk combo into your blender.
Add to this 1/2 cup low fat (huh and she is adding half and half?) organic vanilla yogurt.
(I use a soup ladle to scoop the yogurt out of the plastic container. This measure 1/2 a cup)
Most days I have added less than a 1/4 cup of raw cane sugar - not processed white sugar. (Originally I was measuring this as two small fistfuls but finally measured those fistfuls and now know for certain that it is less than a 1/4 of a cup.)
Today I made it sans sugar. It was good but not as tasty as with it - in my humble taste buds opinion.
Hit the grate ice button until the strawberries are well broken up and barely discernible. Then blends for a few more seconds. Pour into your cup - and you will have more than you can fill the cup with. Just as this national franchise always does!
Pick up your favorite magazine, current novel you are reading, sit back and enjoy. YUM!
2 comments:
Mmmm....try adding a banana and a tablespoon of honey instead of the sugar. Even just the banana can be enough sweetness. Then you have almost exactly the recipe for my favorite summer mid-afternoon snack! Though I do throw a few ice cubes in for good measure on top of the strawberries (I think I use fewer strawberries too), and I make about twice as much because my 3 yr old loves 'smoohies'. :-)
I actually lost 5 lbs last summer by substituting this for all my normal snacks, and replacing all my grains with whole wheat products.
Hi Kate, so nice to see you back! I have missed you and wondered how you are doing! I lost close to twenty pounds one summer when every morning I would make a drink that consisted of ice cubes 1 banana, freshly squeezed orange juice and frozen strawberries. That was it, no milk products or sugar and it is a very sweet treat! I might try it again if I can get my hands on a working orange juicer. Mine just died :-( But I might try adding a little banana to my strawberry smoothie and eliminate the flavoured yogurt for unsweetened plain yogurt. I'll let everyone know how it goes!
Thanks for the reminder of the banana trick! Great source of potassium.
Blessings
Christi
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