Yes, that’s pretty much the name given to this smoothie over at Jasmine and Vanilla. It’s basically a green smoothie and I’m using it as a base rather than following it directly. This was one of the most spam-repeated posts on Pinterest — I had to use Google image search to find the original post because every link I could find with the very appealing picture led to a spam site. Sigh.
So, the recipe starts with “juice of one orange” — sorry, at 6 am if I am using a fresh orange, I’m putting in the whole orange. Or I’m using orange juice. In this instance, I went with the former. Banana and pear, check! Kale. Hmm. I’m pretty sure I declared “no more kale” but I’m going to give it one more shot. I picked a few leaves out of the garden last night so that it would be as fresh as possible. I also added 1 tbsp of ground flaxseed. I wasn’t sure this would be creamy enough without either yogurt or at least almond milk so I blended it up first for a taste test. Creamy wasn’t the issue but it was too tart for me so I added 1/4 cup of almond milk to try and balance the flavour.
What can I say about this one? I drank it. It wasn’t horrible, but I could taste the competing flavours of the orange, pear and kale — contrary to what the original post suggested, they do not play well together. At least I couldn’t taste the flax.