~Sunday, September 30, 2012
A huge thanks goes out to my
friend, Rose, this morning!
Upon a late return home last
night from a fun-filled evening of “Chicken Cacciatore,” and numerous rounds of
playing cards at my parents’ house, (I can still see my dad grinning from ear
to ear, as he once again won the last big “pot”—four dollars!—we throw into the
middle of the table for the final round), my husband and I opened the door to
walk into our kitchen and my husband proclaimed, “I can smell that passion
fruit!” I had a bowl of this wondrous
fruit given to me by my friend, Rose, this week. She also treats my family to her home-made
passion fruit jam every year (amongst many other “fruits” of her labor: perfect avocados, sweet peaches, and a
plentitude of tomatoes in every color and variety!)
Thus, with the scent of passion
fruit still on my mind as I awoke this morning, I sprang out of bed, grabbed my
camera, and started helping my husband prepare this delicious smoothie:
Ingredients
(Serves 5)
3 cups seedless watermelon,
chilled
2 organic bananas, peeled and
halved
7 passion fruit (halve and
squeeze the juice into a bowl, as if you were squeezing seeds out of a tomato)
Place watermelon into the
Vitamix, set machine on low (Variable 3), and blend for 20 seconds. This should yield approximately 3 cups of
juice in the container at this stage.
Place the rest of the
ingredients in the Vitamix and blend on low, slowly increasing to a higher
setting (Variable 10), then to HIGH.
Blend on HIGH for approximately 1 minute. Serve immediately.
