frozen bananas are handy, with one caveat

I've been making Alton's delicious smoothie with some regularity in the mornings. I've learned some things.

1. Frozen fruit is awesome for this. However, peel your bananas before freezing them. Obvious in retrospect – sure, but now I know exactly how difficult it is to peel a frozen banana. Difficult.
2. It's a bit much for a single serving. I'm gonna chop the ingredients in twain.
3. Frozen fruit deserves the "Ice Crush" button; particularly strawberries. Blenders are whiners.
4. It's annoying to clean the blender everyday. Any ideas? A rinse isn't so hard, but all the sugar in there scares me.

The scale I purchased is en route, but I think I've lost a few pounds since focusing on eating both better and less and also starting the EA Sports Six Week Challenge on the Wii. Booyah.

Good Foods

I made this for dinner again last night. It's been delicious both times. I made it with turkey, which apparently weighs more? 1.5 lbs turkey is too much turkey. I also use frozen vegetables, since peas/corn/carrots come prepped that way. Big time saver. LOTS of glorious leftovers since I quadrupled the recipe. It's also delicious with the vegetarian protein crumbles. Worchestershire sauce is invincible.

And since my bananas finally ripened, I made Alton's smoothie this morning! Also delicious. I gotta recommend that whole episode.

a meal

I'm looking at recipes to cook tonight for community dinner, and I think a fun one would be pairing this vegetable hash with one (both!?) of these two breakfast hashes. Mmmm delicious and cryptographic to boot.