For months, maybe years, Tobin has been bringing up the topic of smoothies: specifically, when he was getting to get his own smoothie named after him. (If you click on my "About the Word-Spiller" button and scroll to the bottom, you can see the smoothie recipes I've posted there, named after the members of our family.) :) Every time he talked about it, it seemed like he mentioned different ingredients and changed his mind about how exactly to make the Tobin Smoothie; but finally, last Sunday evening when I happened to have two bananas lying around (an ingredient he had always mentioned), I decided that it was time to get down to business and solidify the recipe for Tobin's very own smoothie. The result? :)
2 bananas
1 pint frozen blueberries
1 pint grape juice
4 ice cubes
a generous helping of strawberry yogurt
If we had had any fresh spinach, I would have put that in, too, since I always throw spinach into a smoothie if we have it on hand. Like many people told me back in my skeptical, you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me, SPINACH-in-a-SMOOTHIE? days, you really can't taste the difference at all; and the nutritional oomph it gives the smoothie is powerful. But this time, I didn't have any, so the color ended up a beautiful purple.
I'm so glad we finally got to make Tobin's dream of having an official smoothie named after him come true. :)
Ironically, just a few hours after drinking this, Tobin was throwing up. I'm absolutely sure, however, that it had nothing to do with the smoothie and everything to do with a virus that started with Moriah and got passed around in our family during the past few days. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to making this smoothie again sometime soon--with a healthier outcome this time! :)
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