Summer Fruit Smoothie

[Nick]

Summer Fruit Smoothie

Serves: 2
Prep time: 5mins
Cooking time: 5mins

Ingredients
500g assorted soft fruits
1 small banana, peeled
½ x 200ml tub creme fraiche
50ml coconut cream
15g desiccated coconut

Method

Reserve a few of the fruits for decoration.

Place the rest in a liquidiser with the banana. Blend until smooth.

Add the creme fraiche and coconut cream and blend again before pouring into dessert dishes or glasses and chilling.

Place the desiccated coconut on a baking tray and toast under the grill or in the oven until golden brown. Watch carefully to ensure it doesn't burn.

Before serving, decorate with the reserved fruit and toasted coconut

[iMc]

OMG, that sounds nice! could do with one now. what soft fruits you recommend?

[Nick]

Anything that pulps up easily.. strawberries, raspberries, bananas... or peeled peaches, nectarines, mangos, paw-paw, kiwis, melon... or poached, peeled harder fruits like apples, pears etc.

[tiggerai]

Does the creme fraiche make it last a bit longer... I've been making smoothies but they seem to "go over" quite quickly. Even in the fridge.

Cheers.

[Nick]

The creme fraiche gives it a creamier flavour, that's all really. To try and eek out a bit more life, try adding some lime or lemon juice and then a touch of sugar to combat the tartness that'll introduce. The acid might make it last longer.

Generally, I find that you can't really hold these things more than a day before they start to taste funny... best to make and use them same day, tbh.

[Auran]

Am I missing something or has it not got RUM in it?

Apart from that it sounds nice tho

[Nick]

Ah, yes sorry I forgot... here's the updated recipe.

Summer Fruit Smoothie

Serves: 2
Prep time: 5mins
Cooking time: 5mins

Ingredients
Rum

Method

1)Drink rum.

2)Repeat until you get to step three (you'll know when you're there)

3)Fall over.

4)Pass out.

[megah0]

No no no.

Summer Fruit Smoothie

Serves: 2
Prep time: 5mins
Cooking time: 5mins

Ingredients
Absinth

Method

1)Drink absinth.

2)Repeat until you get to step three (you'll know when you're there)

3)Fall over, get up and run from the yellow axe wielding elephants, cut off your own ear and then paint a picture with some daffodils in it.

4)Pass out.

[silent ben]

why do spirits take 5 mins to prepare? are you already drunk by the time you go to open the bottle

Ben

[Nick]

Erm... you don't drink straight from the bottle, do you?

5 mins to go and get a glass, breaks down like this:

Find that all that the kids have left is Barbie plastic beakers, swear you are NOT drinking out of one of those and go to drinks cabinet for a proper tumbler.

Find door to cabinet locked to stop kids playing with expensive crystal tumblers.

Look where key is usually kept to find it not there.

Stand staring at empty space where key was trying to think like the wife who has now moved the key elsewhere and guess where she has put it.

Start randomly opening drawers, silver trinket boxes and assorted ornemantal pots in search of keys.

Repeat, this time with swearing.

Repeat, this time with violent motion and swearing.

Stomp upstairs to check in wife's other set of ornemental pots, trinket boxes and various fiddly things that you usually break while dusting and hunt through all them too.

Stomp downstairs.

Place broken peices of stupidly fragile trinket box from upstairs on a high shelf where a short wife won't see it until you have a chance to glue it together again.

Recheck all of trinket boxes in house.... with swearing.

Put more pieces on the high shelf.

Phone wife to discover that the keys are with her as the kids were playing with them before she took them off into town.

Settle down with Barbie beaker.... and a straw.

[acidrainy]

So so true deckard, so so true

[Auran]

Ah the fun and games of marriage and kids I'll stick to living in a darkened room basking ing the loving green glow of the on button from either my PS2 or X-box

I know I drink a lot but I would have added some fruit and coconut to the rum but absinthe, now your talking

1. Tall glass
2. Bottle of Absinthe
3. Teaspoon
4. Sugar Lump
5. Lighter
6. Laundnum (optional)

Last time we did this we went to a school disco down in Bristol, now that was a freaky experience

[Alex]

Another nice one -

Vanilla ice cream
Chocolate Nesquick
Milk
Half a spoon of instant coffee
Baileys

-Discovered that one the other day!