Smoothie Couture

refreshing raspberry and orange juice dreams

We’re knee deep into shooting a new project this week and, because we’re fucking idiots, it happened to be scheduled during one of the hottest weeks in LA history.  Our office doesn’t have central air so between the hot as hell kitchen and all the prop lights, it’s a fucking miracle the food didn’t look deflated. We powered through as the sweat got in our eyes and a monarch died and luckily, this week’s work turned out pretty goddamn decent. 

eggplant polpette during a 101 degree day on a random wood board to fake a nice table

 

To keep our brains from frying, we’ve been sipping on smoothies all week. We love to solve problems with food and heat waves are no exception. Our favorite smoothie this week was chock full of raspberries with a sweetness that made it almost feel like a dessert. 

To make the presentation more ✨exciting✨ for y’all, we poured half the smoothie in two glasses and froze them at a slant. When they were frozen firm enough, about 30 minutes, we mixed the remaining smoothie with 2 more tablespoons of vanilla non dairy yogurt and poured it on top. This creates that cool bifurcation you see in the photo and can make your smoothie spread that much more enticing. If you give a shit about that sort of thing. You can also just toss all the ingredients in the blender and zap that motherfucker. Do you. 

Next week we finally catch a break from the heat wave, which means here in The Broiler Room we’re gonna start leaning into fall foods. We got brittle, breads, and all pumpkin everything. Grab some sweatpants and queue up your favorite fall movies because shit is about to  get cozy. But for now, let’s send summer off in style.

Raspberry Creamsicle Smoothie

Makes 2 smoothies

1 cup frozen raspberries

1 cup vanilla, nondairy milk

1 cup ice

½ cup orange juice

1 banana, ideally frozen but no required

2 tablespoons nondairy vanilla yogurt

Throw everything into a blender and, you know, blend. Done and done.

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Michelle and Matt