At Lacey's request, here's a recipe for the avocado frappe. The recipe I used before is at my parent's home, but I found this one, which sounds the same:
1/4 of a ripe avocado
3/4 cup rice or soy milk
3 tbsp palm or brown sugar
2 tsp fresh lime juice
4-5 ice cubes
Throw it in the blender and delight in your creamy green drink!
Another recipe I liked that summer was a watermelon smoothie. Again, packed, but here's one that sounded similar, though I never used almond extract:
2 cups seeded watermelon chunks
1 cup cracked ice
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/8 tsp. almond extract
Blend.
Very refreshing. And it impresses people. Unless they were tricking me.
Mmmmh, the water melon recipe reads very yummy; watermelon and ice cubes smoothed up is my discovery for this summer. But ginger and cinnamon is something I haven't thought of adding yet. Need to try that...happy I found your blog ;)
Posted by: mademoiselle a. at July 24, 2003 01:45 PMWelcome!
Posted by: shokufeh at July 24, 2003 10:32 PMI'm goign to try the avacado smoothie. No offense, but I can't think of a more yucky food than watermelon. I'm shocked constantly that people rave and rave about it. Some people tried to oust me from the south because I don't like it OR cantaloupe OR honeydew...but I left voluntarily. Yeesh.
Posted by: lacey at July 25, 2003 05:13 AMI'm not a big fan of watermelon, but I eat it sometimes, if it's icy cold. But I like it in this smoothie. In the summer, my parents, my dad in particular eat watermelon just about every night. I just watch.
Posted by: shokufeh at July 25, 2003 09:17 AMall the other "exotic" melons are way better than cantelope or honeydew, but I must admit, I find these admissions to not liking water melon a little horrifying. have you guys considered counseling?
Posted by: Emily at August 1, 2003 08:30 PM