Guava Gulp

So. I've been a little laissez-faire about the diet lately, mostly owing to the fact that we've been tiling my office, which I have taken to mean I'm burning lots of calories, given the amount of sweat pouring off me as I lug heavy tiles around and contort myself to get them into place. Practically what this translates to is me not going to the gym, not really tracking what I'm eating very carefully, and then giving myself a satisfied pat on the back when I do my weekly weigh in and discover another pound or so gone.

But don't get too irritated. First, the tiling was hard ass work. And it's also done (side note: it came out great, but that's a different blog), which means I'm back to my hardcore sedentary desk-monkey ways. Which means that, especially in light of the cheese-fest I just had for lunch, those trips to the gym are back in my future.

Anyhow. Yesterday I had a slightly late and definitely enormous Indian buffet lunch on which I stuffed myself silly. Then I had sewing class at 6:30. But while I was by no means hungry that early, the class was going to take all night and therefore leave me starving. SO, I made the next smoothie on the prospect that it was light and portable, so I could take it to class and maybe even convince myself to eat it.

The next smoothie in the book was the Guava Gulp, and unlike some predecessors I'd had a fairly easy time finding the requisite guava nectar and mangoes at the grocery, so I had everything on hand and properly cut up and frozen or what have you.

I am not very well-versed in the ways of guava and mango. I'm not sure if I've had guava before; in fact, my main experience with it is that for reasons I no longer remember it was the nickname of a rather unsavory man my friend* once went out with.** And as for mangoes, my feelings for them can generally be summed up as: eh. So with them as the star attractions of this smoothie, I wasn't sure how it was going to come out.

How it came out was yet another thick yellowy shake in a long line of thick yellowy shakes. There were no great disasters as far as the actually smoothie-making went, save for the fact that for a time the unblended fruit was stubbornly sticking at the top and as I was making half the recipe, I had to somehow try to figure out how to measure out some wacky amount of guava nectar. But I prevailed.

However, I was running rather late for sewing by the time I did so, so there were only really quick photos to be had. Photos like this:

Yellow in blender.

And this:

Yellow in portable container.

I put it in a travel cup thing whatever hoohoo given out by Josh's union, so I could both advertise the union and make sure I got my smoothie with maximal plastic chemical leakage flavoring. Unfortunately, as the cup was see-through, I thought it looked kind of less than appetizing (there may be a reason Jamba Juice has opaque cups), so I mostly just sucked down what I could in the car and then left it there to make fruit flies jealous they couldn't get at it.

As for the smoothie itself, it was part generic bright! fruit! type flavor (guava/mango/lime juice I would guess) and part banana-y. Sadly, the banana part was the overwhelming part. I say sadly because I am not a big banana person, and I prefer at best for it to be hinted at, not overtaking. Which might be why I left the majority of it in the car and decided to tough it out during sewing. 

I was going to say something like, it was fine, I prob won't make it again, though. Then I started to write out the recipe and realized that while I halved the rest of the recipe, I forgot to halve the amount of banana. Which would explain things. 

Guava Gulp (or Guava Get-Left-Behind)

1 1/4 cups guava nectar

2 tsp fresh lime juice

2 cups diced fresh mango, frozen

1 fresh banana, frozen & sliced

I mean, they can tell you this and that, but really throw it all into the blender and mix. My handy-dandy calculations say: 509 calories, serves 2.

*Kristin. I'm lucky she still likes me after this.
**I may have set her up with him.