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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