Recipe for a Monday Night

Homemade Smoothie – Take 1
Otherwise known as: “The Night of Messy Projects”

Why? Cause smoothies are supposed to be delicious and filling and good for you and I need more fruit in my diet like crazy.

I put in:

Orange juice – a cup and a little bit

Nonfat plain yogurt – nonfat is the key, plain yogurt is awful, ½ c but I spilled some over the top, then scooped it up with my hand

Frozen raspberries – ¾ cup, then I put in more when he told me he couldn’t taste them

1 banana – only dropped one piece

Frozen strawberries – only a couple cause they were huge ice cubes and still had the green on them

Sugar – not brown sugar or raw sugar, just white sugar. A small handful.

Then I threw in some crushed flax seed for healthiness.

And some wheat germ. Cause that would have cost an extra $1.50 at the smoothie bar.

Then I hit GO. On my food processor. Cause I don’t own a blender.

Then it jumped around and went crazy and spit all kinds of stuff out of the top which I didn’t plug or hold down.

Then I got a little mad, then I laughed. Then I finished it.

And… it was ok. Flax seed is crunchy.

While I was doing this, he was baking sand to put in the tank for the new hermit crab house. Baking for hours. I mean, he came close to beating one of my sugar cookie baking nights. There is sand everywhere.

Then I decided to plant some seeds. Only a few months late. And I got dirt and mud and water everywhere. And they probably won’t sprout anyway.

Then I did the dishes. Which is messier than you’d think. And the stove is still pretty gross.

Oh yeah! I made dinner! Fresh pasta from Penn Mac with portobella mushrooms, diced tomatoes, spinach and fresh basil. That was messy too.

Now he’s cranky but cuddly which means it will probably be a messy night!