Smoothie Tuesday: Nectarine, peach blast cacao smoothie

Posted on March 2nd, 2010
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The nectarine ranks amount my favorite fruits, I love the explosion of flavors! Sort of makes me wonder why I don't buy these more often.

This smoothie now ranks among my favorite. I still seem to be on this chocolate kick too, maybe it’s the two 16oz bags of cacao I recently purchased. But, this one turned out to be pretty amazing I think. Next time I will probably try it without the cacao, because I think it will be equally as delicious.

The Recipe

  • 1 ripe peach (pitted, leaving the skin on)
  • 2.5 oz of frozen peaches (1/4 of a 10 oz bag)
  • 2.5 -3 oz of frozen mangoes (or about 1/4 of a fresh one)
  • 1 banana
  • 2 TBSP of raw honey (or agave for 100% vegan)
  • 2 TBSP of cacao powder

Combine all ingredients into a blender and whiz until smooth!

A random though just popped into my head… I should create a page listing out my favorite smoothie recipes. So, look for that in the hopefully near future.

And, on a side note. I might be running the Dallas Rock and Roll Half Marathon in two weeks. I will be sure to post if that happens. It will be hard to work in another long run before then though since I will be out climbing in Arkansas this weekend, but seeing how I just did 13.1 last weekend I think I will be okay getting in an 8 mile run sometime next week.




Simple but Tasty Raw Smoothie

Posted on January 13th, 2010

This is a variation of my go-to mixed berry smoothie. This morning I was out of mixed berries but had a couple packages of frozen strawberries, some blueberries and some frozen bananas. Combined with some honey, rice milk and almond cashew butter it created a really delicious smoothie.

The Recipe

  • About 2-3 oz of frozen blueberries
  • About 4 oz of frozen strawberries
  • 1 frozen banana
  • 2 TBSp of raw honey
  • 1 heaping TBSP of raw almond cashew butter (or just plain almond OR cashew butter)
  • Your choice of greens or greens powder and hemp seed protein powder (optional but best)
  • 1 cup of rice milk

Directions: Just blend!

For those of you who are not regulars on my page, I use a Vita-Mix blender. You can get free shipping on this wonderful machine through the Vita-Mix page on my site.