Good morning dear friends! I hope you had a lovely weekend.
As I mentioned two posts ago, I recently found tropical fruits in my local supermarket, and they brought memories of days past, memories of Ivory Coast. So I bought mangos, papayas, bananas…a bit too many of them, to be honest. At first, I ate them raw, and after a few days (when we got tired!) I started thinking about what to do with them.
I then recalled a simple fruit salad that I used to eat back in Abidjan and which consisted in dices of mango, papaya and banana, tossed together with a teaspoon of honey (I like acacia) dissolved in a the juice of half a lime (to kill the sweetness) and sprinkled with a few almonds on top. Simple and nice.
So I ate my fruit salad, and I was considering what to do with the remaining fruits when I thought that I could use the same ingredients in a different way. The weather is still warm in Nicosia, and we are still wearing our summer clothes, but we also know that it won’t last much longer, so I thought that this was my last chance of making a summery smoothie until next year.
So a tropical fruits smoothie I made!
I chopped 1 mango, 1 papaya and 1 ripe banana, and I put them in the blender together with 1/2 cup of crushed ice, 2 teaspoons of acacia honey and 2 glasses of almond milk (if they don’t sell almond milk where you live,you can make your own following this recipe and instructions). I blended it all for a few minutes, until there were no more visible fruit chunks, and then I served it with a couple of straws (to make it more appealing to my children!)
It was a perfect way to say goodbye to the long days of summer, and to welcome autumn- even though there is still no sign of it.
Now may I ask something from you? My Owl cupcakes are competing in Sweetopia‘s Sweet of the week contest. Would you be so kind to vote for me, pleeeease? 🙂 Thank you! There are some really pretty confections competing this week so I’m sure you will enjoy taking a look at all entries.
Have a wonderful week!
Te escribo rapido porque me voy corriendo a clases de holandes. En un rato leo la receta de los smoothies pero se ven deliciosos. Ya estas votada 😉
Gracias!
Que deli, en Mexico hacen un licuado de jugos, de papaya, naranja y zanahoria y le llaman “Cancun”. QUe delicia leche de almendras, se me antojo. Y la de avena tambien me fascina.
Papaya, naranja y zanahoria…qué rico! Lo voy a probar!
Marce, el smoothie se ve riquisimo!!! cuando llegue la epoca de las frutas tropicales aca en argentina creo q lo voy a hacer! Yo solia hacerme un smoothie de frutillas, bananas, yoghurt e hielo en USA que me quedaba divino!!! Como lo extraño! 🙂
Vote por tus Owls cupcakes y, de paso, me enamore de ellas!!! Son tan divertidas!!! Me encantaron!!!! Ojala que ganes!!!!
I’ve been really into smoothies lately and this looks amazing! I love the tropical flavors.
Thank you! And thanks a lot for stopping by!
Qué bueno que te guste! Me gustó la combinación del tuyo, voy a probarlo! Un abrazo.
Thank you so much for this smoothie recipe, Marcela! It looks wonderful and I can’t wait to try it out. I also shared it on my blog today with a link back to you 🙂