We’re back with our Sweet Potato Chronicles friends, Ceri and Laura, authors of the phenomenal cookbook, How to Feed a Family. To start 2014 off right, we’re getting Back to Breakfast! These healthy, delicious recipes will be loved by the whole family. Next up: Pinkie pie smoothie!
This one is named for my kids’ latest obsession, My Little Pony (God help me). I’m trying to remember when I hear them singing along to the tooth-aching theme song that there are now-forgotten obsessions that I kind of miss. Like the silly “Where did it go?” game Esme used to play before she could even talk. She’d whip her little fork behind her back in her high chair and then hold her hands up, like, “What?” About a dozen times per meal for six months. I was ready to take that fork and jam it in my own eye. Now it’s all ponies, all the time. Much of the conversation seems focused on who is who. As in arguing over, “I’m Fluttershy” “No, I’m Fluttershy! Actually, I’m Rainbow Dash.”
And don’t bother suggesting that maybe the game is still fun if both are Rarity or Apple Jack (that I know all the names is a kind of torture to me) because you will get the scornful look of pity that I do. As if. I felt slightly better to hear that my friend Elana’s kids are so into My Little Pony that they sing along to Alicia Keys’s big hit with a little tweak to the lyrics. “This pony’s on fire!” I will never stop laughing about that. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. And so, meet Pinkie Pie, a calcium-rich smoothie with a little shot of flax.~Ceri Marsh
Pinkie pie strawberry smoothie
Ingredients:
(2 servings)
- 3/4 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1 banana, peeled, cut into chunks
- 1 cup strawberries, stems removed, roughly chopped
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1/4 teaspoon flax oil
- 4 or 5 ice cubes
Method
Place all ingredients in a blender and puree until smooth.
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