When I was looking through the freezer, I found a peach I’d stashed in there. I figured I needed a recipe that could use it and I tracked down this “Straight A Smoothie” from Good Mood Food. It looked great, mostly simple ingredients, but in the end, I changed a lot of it, so my variation is listed below.
To begin with, I read “1 cup of freshly squeezed orange juice” — we went over this yesterday. I am not squeezing oranges first thing in the morning! Besides, I had a carton of orange juice in the fridge so a cup went in the blender. Next up, 1 small fresh peach. Well, I had a big, frozen peach which had thawed overnight. Except that when I opened the baggie, it smelled wrong, so it went into the compost instead of the blender. The nectarine did go in, as did one banana (who measures bananas frozen or otherwise in cups? Not me).
Since I didn’t have a fresh peach, I was glad that I had a small container of peach yogurt to add. I skipped the apple cider vinegar — we didn’t have any and, despite the health benefits, I really didn’t feel the need to buy a whole bottle for the sake of 1 tsp. Instead, I added my usual 2 Tbsp of ground chia seeds as well as the maple syrup. I skipped the ice, too.
1 cup orange juice
1 banana
1 nectarine
1 peach
1 small container peach or vanilla yogurt (about 1/2 cup)
1 tsp maple syrup
2 Tbsp ground chia seeds
Overall, I enjoyed this smoothie a lot. It was not-too-sweet and not-too-tart although it would have been much tastier with the peach which is why I left that in the recipe. I think I would call my variation “Okanagan Orange” because the best tree-fruit I’ve ever tasted (aside from that which I’ve grown myself) comes from there.