Don’t let anyone tell you that all smoothies are created equal. It’s just not true. Some are really bad!
In my opinion, this one falters from the use of sub-prime apricots. Using ripe fruit is really important and, well, this time I guess I didn’t pick up ripe apricots. And I didn’t pick just a few, I picked nearly 40 lbs! I bought them over the phone for 25 bucks and, as it turns out, you get what you pay for.
In an effort to try to make them worthy for consumption, I let them age a little while. You know, how you might let a pineapple age or a banana age. Sometimes it works, other times the fruit is just too green and it doesn’t ripen much at all.
Armed with pounds of apricots, I went searching on the web to see if I could find the best apricot smoothie recipe around. I poked around a little and came across the Incredible Smoothies website. Looking a little deeper, I found a page that outlined their apricot smoothies. I thought to myself – ok, this looks as good as anything I’ve found, I’ll give it a go.
Aiming to make the Apricot-Banana smoothie this is what I mixed together:
I’ve got to say it all looks good.
- 1 cup water
- 8 little Aricots
- 2 Bananas
- 7-8 Deglet Noor Dates
- A bunch of fresh garden Spinach
- And a probiotic for good measure (optional)
After slicing the apricots in half and tearing out the seeds (wasn’t easy for the fruit was still pretty green), I stacked it all up on the blender and gave it a spin for 60-70 seconds and ended up with this.
Have to tell you it looks great! Smooth and creamy, light and fragrant – but tart as H….eck. Dang, don’t like to swear much, but this one made me pucker up.
I think I’ve found a new fruit to avoid. I absolutely love raw peaches, but I have a hard time finding plums and apricots that have been picked anywhere near ripe. In a way, I wish I had a couple trees growing out back so I could pick my own 20 lbs – when they turned sweet and juicy. I guess I’ll just have to wait until we’re clearly into peach season or for when the pears come around.
But for now, avoid green apricots at any cost. Save your money for something a little sweeter!
