I don’t know what season it is.
First it’s cold, and my body says:
Girl, please give me some Cinnamon Roll Baked Oatmeal.
Then the very next day is bright and sunny; over 100 degrees again. Yesterday was one of those hot days, which meant the canned pumpkin in my fridge didn’t receive any love. (Sorry, pumpkin.) Instead, I went with something cool and refreshing: a thick strawberry milkshake.
It’s so thick you can even opt to eat it in a bowl, like ice cream!
Strawberry Thickshake
- 1 cup frozen strawberries (160g)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup full-fat coconut milk (you can use lite, but it won’t be as rich)
- optional: stevia or other sweetener to taste (agave, sugar, etc)
- optional: cocoa powder
Thaw your strawberries until they’re *just* soft enough to blend. Then blend everything until smooth and serve with a spoon—this shake is thick! (Have I mentioned how thick this is yet? Only about 100 times?)
This milkshake is another one of my Vita-Mix Recipes.
But it works in a regular blender, too. My Magic Bullet was easily able to handle it.
Why not also bake some Cauliflower Chicken Nuggets…
McDonalds of the Future?
Maybe in ten or twenty years, places like McDonalds will be serving healthy foods, as opposed to Big Macs and McFlurries. They’re already heading in that direction, with new menu offerings such as apple dippers and oatmeal. Consumers have become increasingly more health-conscious in the past decade, and movies and books like Super Size Me and Fast Food Nation are swaying public opinion even further towards the side of health. I really feel like the growing demand for healthier restaurant options will soon render obsolete our current definition of “fast food.” But maybe I am just an idealist?
Question of the Day:
Do you think fast food places will become healthier in the future?
Can you imagine Burger King serving lentil curry? Or Wendy’s giving out Spinach Frostys? (Hmm, maybe Spinach Frostys is taking it a little too far…)
I think fast food places will becom healthier by offering nutrition info at their restauraunts and online,and by offering different options so people who eat healthier can still eat their }{some places already do this and offer healthy smoothies and vegetarian options} things like that,that arent too extreme or ‘health conscious’ for a fast food place 😛
If any of the recipes for taste testing are gluten free I am totally down 🙂 Love your blog!
I would love to try the hot apple crumble bars – apple crumble/cherry crumble are by far two of my favorite desserts! Can’t wait to see you recipe…also, thought of doing pumpkin crumble? it’s yum!
WOW – just subscribed to your blog…your amazing!! – Love the pic’s the comments – I have to tell my GF’s to subscribe!
Go girl!
Oh wow, thank you SO SO much!! I’m so glad you found me :).
I don’t know if I could ever imagine a spinach frosty…. But that would be SO amazing if fast food restaurants really started to incorporate more healthy foods into their menus.
This was like getting a strawberry milkshake from the drive through! Although its been so long since that has actually happened that I might be mistaken 😉 Either way, yum!
Hey, I was wondering…did you use canned coconut or in a carton like the silk kind for the thick shake? It looks so yummy, I love strawberry smoothies! (Second to chocolate peanut butter smoothies, that is!)
Hey, I was wondering…did you use canned coconut milk or the kind in a carton like silk for the thick shake? I love strawberry smoothies! (Second to chocolate peanut butter smoothies, of course!)
canned 🙂
First of all, I would just like to apologize to my blender for being too impatient to let my strawberries thaw. 😉 I used almond milk rather than coconut milk and ended up adding a bit more since the blender was struggling so, but this still came out pretty thick… kind of like a melty sorbet. I probably could’ve added a little sweetener, but left it out since I normally don’t need it for the banana-based shakes. Very refreshing and summery!
I realized that, quite by accident, I’ve managed to eat all my meals from this blog today: Irish soda boatmeal for breakfast, chocolate-strawberry hugs oatmeal for lunch, peanut butter breakfast pudding for dinner, and this shake for dessert. (That’s a lot of oatmeal in one day, lol.) If that isn’t a testament to how awesome CCK and all her recipes are, I don’t know what is!
As far as the question of fast food chains serving healthier food, I’d actually be happy if they (and other restaurants) would start serving normal-sized portions! The stuff on the kids’ menu is more often an appropriate amount of food. I don’t think it’s bad to have fast food infrequently, but if you get a combo meal of any type it’s just an absurd amount of food for one person. Oatmeal and salads are good in theory, but they’re so big and still packed with calories (nuts, dressing, etc) that sometimes you’re better off with a sandwich!
Ok, you are just awesome. That is all.
🙂 🙂
(: Oh, and I almost forgot… I also had funfetti cookie dough balls I’d made for my friend’s first day at her new job. Not kidding!
I can’t wait to try this! I love smoothies and things like that :). This looks so yummy!