I got into a very heated debate a year ago with my husband and a few friends over whether PEANUT BUTTER SMOOTHIES exist FOR BREAKFAST.
We were playing a game — Scattegories or Taboo, I think it was — and we all had to come up with a “breakfast food” that starts with a P. I confidently offered up peanut butter smoothies, thinking it was a perfectly reasonable suggestion and, OMG, it was like Jesus Christ facing down the Philistines cause they CRUCIFIED ME. All of ‘em. Even my husband. It was bloodsport. AND THEY WOULDN’T LET ME HAVE THE POINT.
I was raving! A spewing lunatic! I couldn’t let it go. You’d think I’d claimed gold was spun from straw, or something. I was dumbfounded by the insanity of their assertion “PB smoothies can’t exist for breakfast.” WHAT??? To this day, they still still taunt me about “the PB smoothie incident” and I’m convinced I really do live in crazy world.
Well, comeuppance happens now, friends. Cause lookey what I found in a cookbook this morning:
What’s that it says? A peanut butter smoothie? Peanut butter IN a smoothie? The vibrations! Can you feel the earth move? Oh wait, lets look further down the page. It gets better.
FOR BREAKFAST. That’s right, a PB smoothie for breakfast.
Point, me.
Seems to me that getting things to mix together is sometimes trickier than you would think. In this case, it’s probably important to figure out when to incorporate the PB so that it’s not stuck in globs throughout the smoothie. I think I’d try putting the PB, banana and honey in the blender first, then gradually add the soy milk. What do you think?
Hi Jessie,
I happened upon your website this summer, I think when researching chickens, though possibly through the Homegrown Evolution website. I’m not really sure. Anyhoodle, I just wanted to say hello and that I linked your blog to my blog, a much less focused and cared for blog than yours. I also thought you should know I follow your blog because I felt super creepy when you announced your pregnancy and I was excited for you, before remembering that we don’t even know each other and you didn’t even know I knew about your pregnancy.
Cheers!
Hailey
Hi Hailey: Thanks for checking in! Don’t feel super creepy. I’m the one who puts personal info out there. I shall link to your blog as well. Thank you! JK
Hi Heather: Good point. I love me some peanut butter so I plan to try it both ways — yours and the recipes. Thanks for the heads up. JK
I must confess we did see this in a cookbook too and debated over telling you about it. I think I even picked up the phone, but then thought, nah she’ll never see this…oops. Point Jessie, and an extra one for tenacity.
K: You guys withheld this information and have been letting me live with PB smoothie angst for a year now?! HOW COULD YOU??!? JK