There’s something sexy about a man who reads the morning paper, likes his coffee black and pays our bills on-time. So… grown-up.
I don’t look like a grown-up… not even close. At the moment, I’m wearing a green shirt with orange tights… and brown boots. And maybe a purple headband. Oh, and my eye shadow might have glitter in it. (Don’t judge.) And how many times did I just say the word “and?” I suppose I don’t write like a grown-up, either.
But let me tell you something… I’m starting to feel like a grown-up. Know how I know?
I don’t sleep in anymore. I watch the Today show. I go down the property to let out and feed my chickens. On my way back to the house, I pick-up stray tangerines they’ve pecked off the tree. (Yes, this counts as yard work.) And since the tangerines are perfectly unharmed, I take them inside and use them for breakfast.
Breakfast is a daily multi viy-tah-mihn, and it’s chased down with a green smoothie I even blend myself. By the time I get to the office, I feel like Superman. I prance down the hall (in my orange tights) winking at my peers. I sometimes even do that slow-motion double-gun-shake-thing with my hands. (See also: I don’t act like a grown-up.)
Baby steps, right?
And for the record, I like my coffee black, too.
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In-season tangerines are the jewels in this quick breakfast smoothie. Blended with bananas for the sweet, strawberries for the sour and kale for the punch. Use the Stevia extract to eradicate any bitter trace in the kale.
Ingredients
- • 5 large frozen strawberries
- • ½ banana, peeled
- • 2 tangerines, peeled
- • ½ cup almond milk
- • Optional: 1 tablespoon plant based fat
- • 6 drops Stevia extract
- • 1 cup packed kale leaves
Instructions
- 1. Pour ingredients as listed into Vitamix blender and mix on Speed 10 until well blended.
Notes
Source: Rustic Garden Bistro
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I have to get some of that Stevia extract…
I think you are “adult” enough! Don’t grow old too fast. There is plenty of time for that.
The colors in your photos are so pretty. I wish I could come and have smoothies with you in the mornings, too. I hope that 2012 brings lots more excitement and good fortune your way!!
Merry belated Christmas to you, too! I would so love to get up and let out the chickens, and go to work in orange tights…guess I’ll settle for walking the dog and a suit. Actually, I’m pretty lucky and can wear jeans and casual clothes to work most of the time. Let’s see, for breakfast this morning, I had coffee and chocolate covered cranberries
I still don’t feel like an adult either, the mirror may disagree with me though!
I love a good green smoothie in the morning.
LOL! It just seems like yesterday we were acting like children at IFBC … oh wait.. that was almost a few weeks ago now..
Oh well
Great picture of the chicken. it seems to me they have been that gentle shove in the direction of adulthoodesque living you are discussing
They’re good for that arent they?
I just got into green smoothies too for a whole week before I fell off the wagon (and I liked them!). Just brought back some tangerines from the Coachella Valley. Green smoothie, here I come!
P.S. I vote for blowing up that chicken photo and putting it in your kitchen. Amazing shot!
I love the froth on top of your smoothie. For me, that’s real eye candy. Plus your dear chicken has blue and bright pink around her beak. How cool! I have an orange tree in my new back yard and there is nothing like just-picked fruit.