@Heart-to-Heart posted a smoothie recipe which I was dying to try with the grandbabies :) It took me a while to be able to make this happen as I was unable to find any dragon fruit. I finally located some dragon fruit at the local grocery store and planned this fun time. This post is to thank @Heart-to-Heart for being so AWESOME!!!
Here are the links to the posts of @Heart-to-Heart so that you can have the recipe to try this yourself :)
Hayden is 3 (left) and Avery is 5 (right)
@Heart-to-Heart's recipe called for finger bananas but I was not able to find any ripe ones in our local grocery store .. the only ones they had were totally green and hard as a rock :( We did find dragon fruit but I did not pay attention and happened to get the white ones which was going to mess up the color therefore had to add some strawberries to get that awesome pink/purple color.
The recipe called for coconut cream which the girls said tasted just like whipped cream to them.
We allowed the girls to make the entire recipe themselves with only some direction from papa and I. I let them use the most dull knives I had .. got pretty scary at times.
Avery was just a bit intimidated by the cutting.. I could not get her to hold onto the fruit while she cut them up
Hayden thought scooping out that papaya was so fun!!!
Into the blender went the oranges and papaya
We had to use some strawberries to give it that pink color because our dragon fruit was white .. I had no clue that dragon fruit came in different colors?
Here is our white dragon fruit .. The girls thought it was super yummy .. 1st time trying it
Into the blender went the dragon fruit and strawberries :)
Their finished products - they were not very careful pouring it into the glasses so they are not quite as beautiful as @Heart-to-Heart's but they were super yummy!!!!
After the girls were done making the smoovies (as they called them), they wanted to make a picture to send to @Heart-to-Heart. I let them know that we could not put these in envelopes with stickers as they wanted to do, but that I could put a copy on the post for her :)
Hayden says this is @Heart-to-Heart getting on an airplane
This is a heart with whiskers and cat scratches .. silly!!!!
Avery is very creative .. she really makes some good art pieces .. very colorful .. this is you @Heart-to-Heart :)
Thank you again @Heart-to-Heart for posting such a yummy smoovie .. it was fun being able to try your recipe .. can't wait for the next one. You are really inspiring to me .. and of course the girls. Love you Friend .. SUNSHINE247