My Favorite Smoothies

Since I've been living in California, I have access to some of the best fruit in the country, along w/ bags of blood oranges (my favorite juice ever!). And I've been experimenting. So here are some of the smoothies I've been trying out.

Blood Orange-Celery Smoothie
-1 whole Blood Orange (no skin)
-1 celery stalk
-strawberries
-1 teas. agave nectar
-soy milk

Pineapple-Peach
-Pineapple chunks
-1 Peach
-1 blood orange
-soy milk

Blueberry-Avocado
-1 cup of blueberries
-1 avocado
-soy milk

Strawberry-Any sort of citrus fruit
-3-6 strawberries
-pineapple chunks
-1 peach
-1 blood orange

Adding bananas to any of this will increase the thickness of the smoothie. I've also been adding spring greens and dried spirulina to all these. Mighty delicious!

And finally, the one I had all thru last semester

Banana-Pear
-1 Banana
-1 Pear (doesn't matter how overripe or underripe)
-Cranberry Juice

NB: This is 1) good for the digestive system (thanks, Gillian McKeith) and 2) perfect for college, esp if your school is too cheap to get actually ripe pears (yes, that means you, Walter Burke Catering!)

And finally, a Alton Brown trick: Frozen fruits are great, but if you know you'll want a smoothie a day ahead of time, prepare the frozen mixture and place it in the fridge. The next day it's perfect for blending!