Quick Fix: Peanut butter smoothie

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | Drinks, Food, Web site

It tasted like peanut butter and bananas

All right. Images are working again, the food page is almost finished, and I’m going to be reformatting old updates retroactively over the next couple of weeks. The way things will work is pretty simple. Instead of having two separate articles for each thing I make (a post on the front page and a food page) there will just be a link at the bottom of each post. Clicking on that will send you over to the fill post, which will contain all of the extra content that would otherwise appear on the food page. That would include the ingredients list and the recipe, more or less.

About this peanut butter smoothie. So far not one person I have described it to seems to think that it is a good idea, which I can understand. Mixing orange juice, peanut butter, strawberries and bananas sounds a little strange. It tastes a little strange too, but in a good way. I think.

The story behind it is pretty simple; I was hungry and thirsty and didn’t have anything frozen to thicken up a smoothie. The next logical choice was peanut butter. The only problem was that I had all of my fruit in the blender already and it was soaking in orange juice. There is no going back once there is orange juice in the blender.

As soon as the peanut butter was in the blender I was fairly positive that this was going to be a tragedy. Well, I probably wouldn’t be blogging about it if it was. The smoothie turned out extremely thick due to the peanut butter. It also ended up tasting like bananas dipped in peanut butter, which was actually very good. In fact, if you’ve never had bananas dipped in peanut butter I highly recommend it.

If in the future you find yourself with a bowl of fruit and nothing frozen to thicken up a smoothie, consider the stranger things in your pantry. Like peanut butter.

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