I've finally started making really good homemade smoothies. They feel and taste like the storebought ones, but made at home (cheaper!) with a normal blender. The recipe: 1 c canned fruit frozen with 1/2-1 c of it's juice (from the can), 1-2 c fruit juice or tang or koolaid, 1-2 c milk (to make 2 c liquid all together), 1 tsp vanilla, 1/4-1/2 c sugar, 1 c of a different frozen fruit frozen with 1/2 c of its juice. Put it all in the blender and blend until smooth. You have to use a spoon to help the blender get unstuck because it gets really thick and the fruit sticks to the blades uncut. (I suppose if you diced the fruit and then froze it, it would work better.) We usually make peach-pear with orange tang, or peach-apricot (using leftover fruit from dinner). Sometimes I throw in a tablespoon or two of jam to add berry flavor. Top it with coolwhip or frozen cool whip--very tasty. And you can totally control the amount of sugar (make it with sweetener, berries, and cream and you have a low carb treat!). It comes out so thick that we have to use an ice cream scoop sometimes to serve it. If you froze the mixture until it was a little stiffer, you'd have a good sorbet. We want to try mango, strawberry, fresh peaches, and other favorite fruits (nectarine!). The fruit juice makes a major difference in the texture and in it not feeling like another thick milkshake. 100% white grape juice would make it REALLY good.
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