Do you ever have days where you just want to stay home and eat chocolate?
I feel like I’ve been having those kind of days a lot lately, especially on the weekends. Sometimes I crave a good stay home day where I get to lounge around in my pjs and catch up my reading. Or my tv shows. Or even my blog reading. I swear, I’m so behind on my favourite baking blogs. What’s the cool thing to make these days? I need to know because I feel like summer is approaching and I’m running out of days where I can use my oven.
I’m interrupting the usual flour and sugar-fueled madness that goes on around here to talk about one of my favourite green smoothie recipes. I was almost hesitate to call it a recipe since I really don’t have a set way of making this drink. Every time I make it it’s a little different since I never measure and tend to just eyeball the ingredients when I’m throwing them into the blender. However, once you find your favourite way of making something, it’s hard not to want to share it with the world.
(Are you still here? Good, I was worried that once you saw the first picture and read the words green smoothie everyone would just stand up and leave. Trust me on this, it’s delicious, refreshing and jam-packed with plenty of vitamins and nutrients. I understand that vitamins and nutrients are not words I use too often here on She Bakes Here, but I thought I would make an exception this time around.)
All right, I’m going to be honest. All week I’ve been dreaming about this banana bread. Everyday, always around 3pm, I would be in the middle of something at work when (!!) suddenly an intense snack craving would hit me. I know better than to keep a snack drawer at my desk (it would always be empty), so I’ve been stuck with whatever I brought from home which at that point of the day was usually an apple or nothing at all because the apple may have been eaten by 11am.
There was one day though where I decided to be smart and bring a slice of this banana bread to avoid the 3pm cravings. This failed miserably because the bread was gone by 9:30am and then the apple followed at 11am. I think that was a stressful day.
Usually I’m not a big spring time person (I tend to prefer the crispness of autumn), but I can’t help but feel so pleased about the weather during this time of year. Something about shedding my winter jacket in favour of my spring jacket and trading my worn-out boots for running shoes. Not to mention coming home after work and having natural sunlight for another three hours. For the last few months I’ve had to plan my baking on the weekend and now it’s a nice feeling to know that I can go back to baking and taking photos after work again. This is especially good since because our next few weeks are slowly being eaten up by wedding planning. Up next, my first dress fitting!
Canadian food blogger, baking and eating her way through life. Musical theatre fanatic. Personal finance nerd. Sometimes runner/yogi. Green smoothies are pretty amazing.
