Frozen Strawberry-Pineapple Limeade

All four of us here are kind of smitten with this smoothie. It is so refreshing, and the lime juice creates an almost fizzy feeling to it. The ingredient amounts are very flexible, of course, so feel free to play around with them to suit your tastes. I love using home-canned pineapple, but canned pineapple from the store would work as well. I don't suggest using fresh pineapple, as the taste is more acidic and it has a tendency to overpower the other flavors. 

Also, I like to freeze my bananas when they're slightly underripe. I just peel a bunch and put them in a gallon ziploc bag for use in smoothies. If the peel has brown spots at all, the banana taste is too much for me, so I like to freeze them when they are still tinged with green.

2 cups frozen strawberries

1 cup canned pineapple, drained

1 frozen banana, cut into chunks

1/2-1 cup milk (start with 1/2 cup and increase as needed)

juice from 5-6 medium limes

1/4 cup sugar

Combine ingredients in blender. If your blender isn't very powerful, let the fruit sit for 5-10 minutes to soften up a bit before blending. Blend until smooth, adding milk, lime juice, and sugar as needed. (And don't be shy with the limes! This tastes best with a pretty good lime flavor, so if your limes aren't very juicy you may need to add more.) Enjoy!

Yumprint

I just wanted to share an awesome site for recipe storing and sharing that I found recently. When I get bored reading articles and writing papers (read: everyday!), I distract myself by looking up delicious sounding recipes online. When I find something I really like, I...copy and paste the URL into an email draft. It's super ineffective, but I wanted something fast and easy.

And then, I found Yumprint. It's kind of like pinterest (although I don't use pinterest, so I'm not the best judge), in that you can save all your recipes in one place. If you install the Yumprint extension, whenever you are on a page with a recipe (like blogs or other websites) a little Yumprint banner will pop up. You can just click on it and save the recipe.

If you want to get really fancy, you can save the recipes to a calendar and Yumprint will give you a weekly shopping list.

Anyway, I hope you all find it as useful as I have!

http://yumprint.com/