A Summer Time Smoothie

Okay you could make this in the Winter too. Watermelon is just better in the Summer. So I’d recommend it more when you can get a beautiful watermelon! Which is now!

I was planning to have a smoothie today and then remembered I had watermelon. I had never put watermelon in a smoothie, but I looked it up and found a recipe. Changing it a little of course because I never leave anything alone.

-About 2 cups of diced Watermelon
-About 2 1/2 cups Spinach
-A cup of frozen Blueberries
-One medium sized Banana

Blend until smooth. I would recommend not doing what I did. I put it all in to get the cool picture, but it made it hard to blend. Blending the watermelon and spinach first, and then adding the other fruit would probably work a lot better. I also think using a frozen banana would have been a better idea. It turned out pretty thin. I like my smoothies a little thicker. But that would be up to you. It tasted fantastic though! I will definitely make it again. How it looked though when it was done… Not so beautiful!

But the taste is what counts right? 😉
Happy Blending!

So do not fear, for I am with you;
    do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
    I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:10

(Part Two) What We Made

Last time I posted I told you about the groceries we bought. Which you can read about HereThis time I’ll show you what we made!

I am a lover of cereal! But since switching to real food its all oatmeal and granola. Oatmeal is a bit easier so we eat a lot of it! Adding more seeds this week made it even better!

   
Oats, almonds, flax, chia, and pumpkin seeds. Then blueberries and whole milk! Fantastically delichious!

 
Green smoothie! – Spinach, Whole Milk, Avocado, Chia and Flax seeds, froxen banana, and frozen blueberries!

 

I had a prep day and bagged strawberries and blueberries to freeze.  As well as prepped berries and celery for snacking on. And sliced up red onion, tomatoes, and bell peppers for sandwiches.
  
One of my very favorite foods lately! A toasted piece of homemade whole wheat bread. Buttered, topped with sliced almonds, cheese, tomato, red onion, bell pepper, and spinach! It is so good! But pretty messy to eat!

 
Sautéed mushrooms, spinach, and red onion in a cream sauce over whole wheat pasta! An invention of my own that turned out wonderfully!

 

Fruit bowls! Simple and tasty!

   

Sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, and a fresh salad with homemade dressing! The salad and corn were great! But I hated the sweet potatoes or yams or whatever you want to call them! Maybe I made them wrong but they were not good.

 

And lastly banana pancakes with a homemade berry syrup! And fried potatoes!

Of course we ate more then this but this was some of it. Tonight we are having lentils and rice and then back to the store to buy this weeks groceries! Its been a very tasty week!

Also our farmers market opened today so I got to go down and pick up some of our veggies and fruit! Locally grown beauty!

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:4-13