Today's Smoothie

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today we made a smoothie with:

1 cup Ceres passionfruit juice
1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
1 frozen banana
1/2 cup fresh mulberries
1/2 cup ice

The result is bright purple, mostly thin, a little creamy, with a terrific fruity flavor.  I wasn't sure the mulberries would work after the "peppery" effect of blackberries, but maybe that's because the blackberries were frozen.  In any case I'm thrilled to find a new thing to do with my mulberries.

Mulberry trees grow wild across much of Turtle Island.  If you don't have any, you can buy some from a native plant nursery.  Birds and other wildlife love them.  (Don't plant them over a house, garage, or driveway as they rain fruit everywhere and it stains.  But it will be fine over grass or dirt.)  Sometimes you can find mulberries at farmer's markets for a ruinously high price.

Comments

[falkner]

This post brought to the surface memories of my childhood. In the village I was born in there are a lot of mulberry trees and blackberry bushes growing at the side of the streets, and in the summer we would pick baskets full of them.

The thing I remember the most, though, is how much my fingers would be stained afterwards!

[fianna9]

Mulberries will also get in bird poo after they eat them and rain down on your car, your walk, etc. We have one by our house and I get purple droppings on my car when they're in season so keep that in mind too. The squirrels and raccoons like hanging out in the tree. We've also seen a hummingbird resting on it at times.