chocolate jay robb smoothie!

i think i'm officially on the jay robb protein powder bandwagon. i've tried the whey protein powder in vanilla, and the egg white protein powder in chocolate. i'd prefer to be trying the brown rice protein powder in anything, but my supermarket doesn't have any and the jay robb website is OUT OF STOCK of all things brown rice. side note: how does this happen?

either way, i can officially say that, so far, jay robb rocks. breakfast was the chocolate powder alongside a banana, a few organic frozen berries, a handful of organic baby spinach, some light vanilla soy milk, and a few ice cubes:

i wouldn't go so far as to call this "dessert-like," but its definitely true that you can't taste the spinach. even though no one believes me. yum!

p.s. happy birthday to my aunt! you're awesome and i love you - cheers!

neko smoothie!

i have a bit of a cold, and this is sad, because i don't want one. well, i never want one, but i particularly don't want one now, because i have a concert to go to tonight: neko case is playing two hundred feet from my apartment.

this is very exciting for two reasons:

1) its neko case, and i lurve her

2) it two hundred feet from my apartment, and that's part of the appeal.

oh - and there's a third...

3) the club is TINY. there is a real chance my height won't work against me for once and i'll see the "stage" and we'll make eye contact and stuff.

anyhoo, the sicky thing. the sicky thing could, in all likelihood, impair my ability to enjoy myself and sing very loudly. in order to combat this, i've been having smoothies the last few days for breakfast as part of a healthy regimen. here is one of them...

they are comprised of a few ice cubes, a banana, some frozen, organic berries, organic spinach, and light organic soy milk:

did i mention the spinach? lots of it. this was just for me:

i tried to get an action shot of the blending. it sort of worked:

look at the results - you can see sort of see flecks of green amongst the slightly blurry, brown sludge:

drink up!

smoothie!

green monster smoothie!

that's what all the other blogs call them. except that mine turned out a sort of brownish-sludge type of color, which would negate the 'green monster' title. see exhibit A:

i think the reason that it didn't turn green is because of the strawberries and the bananas. in particular, there were a lot of strawberries this time, as there was 3 pints for 3 dolla, so i loaded up, which you can see here:

the entire list of ingredients included the following: bananas, lots of strawberries, milk of choice, a little soy protein powder, baby spinach, ice. blended. pour into glass. like so:

then, you drink your breakfast. if you are disturbed that you are drinking your breakfast out of a 'grumpy dave's pub' glass, choose another receptacle.

or, if you like, pretend you are doing karaoke at grumpy dave's and sing your favorite song while drinking brown sludgy monster smoothie. i like to work within the 80's catalog. and since i am far from home, i like to represent jersey. might i suggest some bon jovi, or some bruce?

you're welcome.