Blend It

So in the description of this blog I did promise you recipes, which have - up to this point - been nowhere to be found. Well, I bring you recipes! Kind of. I'm going to start things off extremely simple: smoothies. I can't really give - alright PAUSE, I need to interrupt myself for a moment here. I am currently lying on my bed with my laptop propped against my bent knees. I'm typing away, and our cat Una, who was featured in a previous post, hops up on the bed, climbs onto my stomach, and curls up on my chest.  So I am continuing my typing very carefully as I must maneuver around a very sleepy, very cuddly purr-machine. Not complaining. Okay where were we? PLAY. I won't give measurements and specific recipes for smoothies because they're just unnecessary. Instead I'm just going to give you some ideas. Smoothies are great. You can put whatever you want in them and however much of that whatever as you want. You can make them more into a meal by adding oats or more into a snack with just some fruit and milk, maybe some yogurt. I once made a smoothie with vanilla greek yogurt, milk, applesauce, and cinnamon. It tastes like apple pie and vanilla ice cream. In a cup. Can't get much better than that. You have all the freedom in the world. Yes, the world. You better believe it. 

Okay, so here's a smoothie I made the other day. I started with these ingredients.

Frozen strawberries, banana, ground flax seed, vanilla bean Greek yogurt, spinach, and unsweetened vanilla almond milk

I threw everything in the blender. 

Then I poured this in a cup and added a straw. You can't drink a smoothie without a straw. It's true. 

So when I was getting all my things together to move into college this year, my mom told me that there was a blender in the basement that I could take. I was pretty excited about this because, as you can probably tell, I love smoothies. I'm not sure how old this blender is, but it must have been around for a while. I can't run it for too long because it starts to smell like it's burning. I swear if I leave it on for too long one of these days it will just burst into flame. Luckily, no smoke yet.