plum & persimmon green smoothie.

alternate title:

POST-HALLOWEEN-CANDY-BINGE DETOX ELIXIR

i see that the smoothie is actually colored gross brown, not green.  it pretty much looks like what the inside of my body feels like after this last halloween week + weekend.

but here's what brought me back to life:

fresh fruit and vegetables?! i hardly recognize you! where you been??

i feel like i'm overreacting about this, but i really ate like crap this last week and weekend and treated my body like garbage.

this is how i know i'm getting ooooolllldddderrrrrrr.  i can no longer eat a giant trash bag full of various candies to my hearts' content and feel absolutely great the next day.

those were the days.

i bought a whole bunch of fruits and vegetables at our produce stand down the street.  i then went wild and crazy taking tons of photos of fruits and vegetables on the kitchen table.  i'm sure the next few things that i share on here will be starring some colorful fruits or vegetables.  i really marched straight from the fruit stand to the kitchen and didn't leave until i made 3 different recipes with all my new loot.

so i needed a smoothie, real bad.

i wanted plenty of greens and lots of fruit for flavor and juiciness. 

i went with green apple, black plum, satsumas, persimmon, ginger, spinach, kale, and lemon.

since my blending device is horrific, the texture wasn't as fab as i'd hoped, but the flavor was there!

the ginger and the lemon are what really add a zing and bright flavor.  not to mention, an instant sense of rejuvenation and detoxification.

zing! zing!

that beautiful black plum is what is giving the smoothie its gnarly brown color, but the plum flavor is so interesting in a smoothie.  the persimmon has been sitting on my table and i just decided to throw it in!

i kinda think that persimmons taste like marshmallow, so i didn't think it could go wrong.  it added just a different texture and a sort of light almost spicy [?] flavor.  i don't know how to describe the taste of a persimmon...when i say spicy, i mean spicy as in spices, not spicy hot.  marshmallows aren't spicy.  what?

i dunno, you just have to go out and try one, y'all!!!

and then put it in a smoothie with some other colorful nutrients and make yourself feel allllllllll better.

Plum & Persimmon Green Smoothie

Makes about 16 ounces

Ingredients:

• 1/2 a green apple, sliced
• 1 black plum, sliced 
• 1/2 a persimmon, sliced
• 2 satsuma oranges, peeled and separated
• small nugget of ginger, as desired
• juice of 1/3 a large lemon
• 1 cup fresh spinach
• handful of kale (1/4-1/2 cup)
• 4 ice cubes

Instructions-

Peel and chop fruit and vegetables as directed and add to a blender.  Blend until smooth.  Add ice last and blend again.

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fresh concord grape juice.

who am i?

i nevvverrrrr ever liked grape juice and/or grape flavored items of any sort.  however, i love grapes.

what?  

we bought these concord grapes at our local produce stand recently, not really knowing what we were buying.  when i got home and smelled and tasted them, i was like GASP this tastes like artificial grape!  i then had a real epiphany that "artificial grape flavored" things actually are accurately flavored after a type of grape......i had always thought it was a big made up sham flavor, like the way that watermelon things don't reeally taste like watermelon, ya digg??

anyhoo.  i forgot all about

those adorable welch's grape juice commercials

from back in the day that clearly state that their grape juice is made from 100% concord grapes.  durrrrrrr, quinn.  i guess i didn't care to pay attention to them because i never thought i liked grape juice.

oh, what a treat! they conveniently play the entire little rascals movie after

this video

 on youtube.  spanky is sooo dang cute in this commercial and he makes me extra excited about my grape juice.

sidenote, i'd be prettyyyyy dang confident entering a little rascals movie trivia competition and/or line-reciting contest.  this might be the movie i watched the absolute most growing up.   none of that old tymey little rascals stuff, just the 1994 version with all the cute kids.

i still say,

"thank you, my good man"

to pretty much everybody.

ooh ooh, watch

this video too

if you give a hoot at all about these rascals.  makes me feel old as the hills.

these grapes parade around looking a lot like big fat blueberries.

 we decided to put them through the juicer and see what happened.

good things happened.

we ran the grapes through the juicer maybe 3 or 4 times until it seemed like most of the juice came out.

 and we were left with a delicious and beautiful fresh glass of frothy 100% grape juice!

it was perfectly sweetened.  we didn't add anything except a little bit of cold water.

we've been keeping it in a jar in the fridge and i go take a big swig every now and then.  its just so flavorful and juicy! 

the frothy stuff settles on the top after being refrigerated for a while, so you could scrape that off if you don't want the foam.  there's just pure grape juice down below.

100% juice for 100% kids, like meeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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