An awesome smoothie!!!!
I learned earlier this year about the awesome homemade raw smoothies! So when a friend gave us our first-ever blender, this cookie got started on an “awr-some” adventure! I have experimented SO much I think I drove the fam nuts. Some recipes they like, while others I am left with, trying so hard to down it all. Well, this past Tuesday I invented a new recipe (which isn’t entirely raw. Sorry, folks). But, if you ever treat yourself just a little, believe me, you have got to try this!
My family as a whole hasn’t been nuts about the smoothies, actually. They really don’t like their food liquefied, though The Brickster and I really do like our thick strawberry-kale shakes! This new recipe of mine, however, was an instant hit, and people drank full glasses, whilst making grunts of approval and nothing but positive comments!
Ingredients needed:
7 to 8 bananas, peeled (kinda important!)
Milk, rice milk, or soy milk. (Or whatever other kind of milk there is, like… cow milk, maybe?)
1/2 cup of Ovaltine. (Nope, I am not kidding. Told you it wasn’t raw.)
So cut your bananas into thirds or so, put them into the blender and fill it up with milk until it almost reaches the top of the bananas. Blend, then beat. Now is when you add the Ovaltine. You may use more or less as you so desire. 
Set to liquefy, until you get that pure milkshake consistency. If you want a little extra sweetness, add a packet or two of stevia. Pour into glasses with straws (it really is better that way!) and serve. Only kidding. What I meant was, drink them all yourself, one by one.
FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY!
For real, that is what you will want to do. But it actually wouldn’t be such a good idea. Too much chocolate will make you crash. Hence, change of recipe: Drink just one glass, and give the rest to your family.
This drink is SO good fresh, but it is not so good after it has been sitting in the fridge for a day. I did that and I thought that I was just exercising self-control. I realized later that it would have been better if we had drunk it all up. Believe me, it wasn’t hard the second time!
The smoothie IS awesome. I think it would be even more awesome with chocolate Ovaltine, and not the malt flavor. I’m not too fond of the malt.
You done good, honey!
That sounds fantastic!!! I’m going to try it… but I’ll probably use just plain cocoa powder instead of the Ovaltine (though I’d love to try it that way) and use extra stevia. I’ve actually made an almost entirely raw chocolate shake (with the exception of the vinilla extract and coconut milk). My family’s not too keen on chocolate in their raw shakes, but I like it — I think they’d prefer the “real” stuff or something close to it.
Anyway, thanks for sharing! Can’t wait to try it!