Peach Smoothie Redux

Well, that was quite a break, huh? Months have gone by, things have happened. That fence on which the passion fruit vine pictured in the previous entry collapsed in a retaining wall fiasco, I successfully took off 10 lbs with that fancy diet of mine and then went on vacation and put half of it right back on.

But now, life is simmering down again. And I am trying to get back to my dietous ways. Unfortunately, the smoothie portion of this plan was temporarily stymied by a new blender we got. Josh succumbed to some tantalizing online advertising for this ninja blender and the next thing you know we are the proud owners of this guy:

Hi-YA!

Which is all well and good, except for the fact that for several months I refused to use it because I was afraid of getting it wrong/didn't want to learn how it worked. Perhaps with logic like this you understand why I needed a project like blogging my way through a cookbook to have any prayer at making any of the recipes.

Anyhow, I finally faced my fears and gave it a whirl on my own, and what do you know, it is ridiculously easy. Not that Josh wasn't telling me this all along, but still, a girl's entitled to be a little irrational once in a while.

For my attempt, I did a redo on the Peach Smoothie, this time with the pineapple properly frozen. And I can confirm as previously suspected that freezing the pineapple makes all the difference in the world in terms of stringiness (or blissfully, lack thereof). The resultant smoothie looks an awful lot like the previous one, possibly thicker:

I was too excited to eat this to make it look less messy for the photo.

And possibly messier, but substantially more delicious now that the stringiness issue was resolved. It was more of an eat with a spoon than a straw affair, which is always fine by me.

In fact I made it again since this photo was taken. Quite tasty. The only issue is you need a very small amount of the nectar, so you are basically wasting a can unless you have lots of people to make it for. Hmph. Same stats as before apply, you just need to freeze the pineapple. The end.